Hannah Seymour

GEDCOM Note

Category: Norwalk, Connecticut
{Puritan Great Migration}

Biography

Hannah Marvin was born about October 1634 in Essex County, England, the daughter of Matthew Marvin and his wife Elizabeth.<ref>Morris, Seymour. Richard Seymour of Hartford and Norwalk, Conn., and Some of His Descendants, Space:NEHGR|The New England Historical & GenealogicalRegister (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1918) Vol. 72, Page 209.</ref>

Shortly after her birth, the family emigrated to New England. She married Seymour-134|Thomas Seymour 05 Jan 1653/4 in Norwalk, son of Richard Seymour. : Thomas Seymour was baptized at Sawbridge, Hertfordshire, England on July 15, 1632, and was of Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut. After Hannah died, he married Elizabeth ---. His will was dated September 22, 1712, and proved on November 7, 1712. She was living in 1680.<ref>Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635</ref><ref>U.S, New England Marriages Prior to 1700</ref> The evidence that Hannah was living and still married to Thomas Seymour in 1680 is contained in the files for the probate of Matthew Marvin Senior's will. Matthew's will was signed on December 27, 1678, and itmentions "Hanna Semer" among his four daughters. There was an objection filed by son Matthew Junior which was withdrawn after an agreementwith John Bowton and Thomas "Semer" "in our owne and in our wives rights," which was recorded on November 6, 1680. In her will, dated December 1, 1680, Alice Marvin, Matthew Senior's widow, does not mention Hannah or Thomas Seymour, however Hannah was the daughter of Matthew's first wife, not Alice.<ref>{{MLA citation|title = Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct., 1638 and 1635|publisher = T.R. Marvin & Son|year = 1904|publication-place = Boston|repository= Open Library|url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24152728M/Descendants_of_Reinold_and... |oclc = 3667776}}. Also available at Archive.org Pages 294-298</ref>

Children

1. Hannah (Seymour) Bushnell Fitch Lockwood, b. 12 Dec 1654.
2. Abigail (Seymour) Picket, b. Jan 1655/6.
3. Sarah (twin) Seymour, b. Sep 1658.
4. Mary (twin) (Seymour) Bushnell, b. Sep 1658.
5. Thomas Seymour, b. Sep 1660; d. died young.
6. Mercy (Marie?) Seymour, b. Nov 1666.
7. Matthew Seymour, b. May 1669, Norwalk; d. Abt. 1735, Norwalk.# Elizabeth (Seymour) Knapp, b. Dec 1673; d. 17 Jun 1713, Greenwich, Connecticut.# Rebecca (Seymour) Renals, b. Jan 1675/6; m. Jonathan Renals, 13 Apr 1704.# John Seymour, b. 1671, Norwalk; d. 1746, Norwalk. (Possibly child ofThomas's second wife.)

Research Notes

Quite a few sites, including Wikitree and WeRelate are showing a Hannah Merrill marrying Francis Barnard and a different Hannah Marvin marrying Thomas Seymour. (Apparently there was some error/confusion about Francis Barnard marrying a Merrill or a Marvin, but seems some clarity that it was a Merrill).
In a discussion of the family of Edward Marvin, William T. R. Marvin states: : "The late T. R. Marvin, in 1846, based in part on the opinion of hiscorrespondent, the late Rev. Sylvester Judd, of Northampton, Mass., Iincluded another daughter, Hannah, in this family, in the Marvin monograph, printed in "Family Histories and Genealogies," by Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Salisbury, of New Haven, Ct., in 1892; at that time the English home had not been found. This Hannah was early in Hartford, Ct., where she was married 25 August, 1644, to Francis Barnard, and died at Hadley, Mass., in 1676, soon after the birth of her youngest child. From the fact that no such daughter is named in Edward's Will or on St. Mary's Register, as well as from the date of her marriage and the births of her children, I am now convinced that she was not a sister of Reinold and Matthew, and, with our present knowledge, it seems very doubtful if the name on the record from which the assignment was deduced was intended for 'Marvin.'"<ref>{{MLA citation|title= The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct., 1638 : their homes and parish churches|author= William T. R. Marvin|publisher= privately printed|publication-place=Boston|year=1900|url=http://books.google.com/books/about/The_English_Ancestry_of_Reinold...| repository=Google Books}}, Pages 111-112</ref>

Sources

• Ancestry.com Family Tree for Hannah Marvin. #S-899753593* Space:The Barbour Collection|The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. 1-55.
• Clemens, William Montgomery Space:American_Marriages_Before_1699|American Marriages Before 1699 (PomptonLakes, New Jersey, USA: Biblio Co., 1926)
• Hall, Edwin. Space:The Ancient HistoricalRecords of Norwalk, Connecticut|The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut (James Mallory & Co., Norwalk, 1847) Page 181
• Crane, Angeline Smith Pickering. Space:The Genealogy and History of the John Keysar Smith Family of Valley Rest, Florence, Nebraska|The Genealogy and History of the John Keysar Smith Family of Valley Rest, Florence, Nebraska (Angeline Crane, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1922) Page 24
• http://fam.eastmill.com/i931.htm#i92638 8/6/2018 This page wasn't found.

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Hannah (Marvin) Seymour migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).