Helena Talcott

Biography

Helena Wakeman was baptised on 23 December 1632 at Ribbesford, Worcester, England, the daughter of John Wakeman and his wife, Elizabeth.[1] Ribbesford St Leonard's, is close to the manor-house of Ribbesford, about a mile south of Bewdley.[2]. She died after 17 Jun 1674 in Hartford, Connecticut, and was buried there.

She arrived 1638 in New Haven, Connecticut[3]

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Talcott-145

Helena married 29 Oct 1650 to Lt Col John Talcott. She died 2 June 1674 at Hartford.[4]. " ... one of the most useful men in Connecticut in his generation ... "

John Talcott m 1st Helena Wakeman - they had 9 children:

1. son John b 24 Nov 1651 d soon
2. son John b 14 Dec 1653 m Abigail [dau of Thos THIBBETTS], John d 30 Jul 1683 or 84 without issue
3. daug Eliza b 21 Feb 1656 m Capt Joseph WADSWORTH
4. son Samuel 21 Aug 1658 d at 22 yrs
5. daug Mary 26 Apr 1661m RIchard EDWARDS
6. daug Hannah b 8 Dec 1663 m Nathaniel GOLD 2d of Fairfield
7. daug Dorothy 20 Feb 1667 m Capt Thomas STOUGHTON
8. son Joseph b 1669 - Governor of the colony of Connecticut 1724-1741
9. daug Helena b 1674 m Cyprian NICHOLS

Lt Col John Talcott married 2nd 9 Nov 1676 to Mary Cook, dau of Rev John Cook of New Hampshire. John Talcott died 23 July 1688.[5]

Origins

" John Waksman’s “... Will dated 18 Jun 1660, inventory taken 14 Sep 1661 mentions, among others, "... I give unto daughter Helina, wife to John Talcott ...and to ech of their three children ... namely unto John, Elizabeth and Samuel ... to my son Samuell Wakeman's two sons, namely, Samuell and John ... my daughter Kitchell's daughter Elizabeth ..."

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wakeman-135

1. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVVD-5RQ : accessed 20 November 2015), Helena Wakeman, 23 Dec 1632; citing Ribbesford, Worcester, England, reference 99; FHL microfilm 6,344,777, citing Church of England. Parish Church of Ribbesford (Worcestershire), Registers of the church of St. Leonard, Ribbesford, Worcestershire, (Birmingham, England: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry), 1994?.
2. "St Leonard's Parish Church - a short history", Bewdley Parish, archive web page, Wayback Machine, captured 3 August 2019.
3. Ancestry Family Tree Record for Joseph Talcott Governor
4. "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield" by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Vol I, publ 1930, p 631 download from familysearch.org https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/43068?availability=Family%2...
5. "Wakeman genealogy, 1630-1899 : being a history of the descendants of Samuel Wakeman, of Hartford, Conn., and of John Wakeman, treasurer of New Haven colony, with a few collaterals included" by Robert Peel Wakeman, Journal Publishing Co. p 160 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062512678;view=1up;seq=184