Isabel Halstead

Isabel Denton was born by about 1599 near Bradford, Yorkshire, England

View claims about her parentage with extreme skepticism. No genealogist yet has determined her parentage. She was certainly not the daughter of Sir Thomas Denton MP and Susan Temple. And some tree cheat by making her daughter of John Denton any Susan Temple but we know Susan Temple was the wife of Thomas and Not John. She could be the Isabel Denton bp 4 Dec 1599 in Tong, St James, Yorkshire, England to Thomas Denton and Unknown but that would be a completely different Thomas Denton.

Nathan Halsted and Isabell Denton were married 24 October 1620 in Bradford, St Peter (Bradford Cathedral), Yorkshire, England. [1] A search of the Bradford records shows four christenings in Bradford attributed to parent Nathan Halstead:

Edna, christened 4 Nov. 1621; buried 6 Nov. 1621

William, christened 16 March 1622/23

Henrie, christened 29 August 1624, and

Edith, christened 1 Oct. 1626.

It is supposed that this "Edith" was in fact a mis-recording of "Edna", thus in fact being Edna Halstead. Note that there were two other children of Nathan Halstead buried in Bradford, one July 30, 1628 and one Mar. 16, 1628 (prob. 1628/29), for which there were no christenings.

Isabel died 15 March 1641/42 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [2]

Concord Deaths

Halstead, Isabell, w. Nathan, 15: 1m: 1641. [3]

Research note

All sources so far discovered show that Susan Temple married Sir Thomas Denton of Hillesden in Buckinghamshire. Susan's sourced life with Thomas leaves no room for a marriage to a John Denton of Yorkshire. If Isabel was born in Yorkshire then Susan was not her mother and has been detached.

Sources

1. Bartley, Scott Andrew. Letters to Ezekial and Edna (Halstead) (Bailey) Northend of Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1650 and 1652", The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2019) Vol. 173, WN 690, Pages 147-154.
2. Yorkshire Parish Records. Leeds, England: West Yorkshire Archive Service. (Ancestry.com. West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 [database on-line]. Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.) West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; Old Reference Number: 40D90/1/1/1.
3. New England Historic, Genealogical Society. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, For the year 1850, Published 1992 by Heritage Books, Inc., Volume IV, pg. 272. Isabell the wife of Nathan Halsted dyed. 15˚ - (1˚) 1641
4. Tolman, George compiler. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850, Printed by the Town, T. Todd Printer, Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1891 p. 2| Page 2
5. Great Migration Newsletter, Vol, 17. NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, p. 30 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.)