Joan Dow

When Joan married Henry Dow on 11 Feb. 1631, she was the widow of Roger Nudd of Ormsby, Norkolk England and mother of his infant son, Thomas. Click the link below and read page 677. Her maiden name is not mentioned there. <https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofh02dowj#page/676/mode/2up>

Notes

http://earlynewenglandfamilies.blogspot.com/2012/03/dow-family-of-n...

Of Henry Dow’s path, the account is fairly ample. Of Joan Nudd we know but very little; not her maiden name. She was twenty-three at her marriage and had a baby boy. Her husband was Roger Nudd, son of John Nudd who died in Ormsby in 1629. It is believed that Henry Dow and Roger Nudd were fellow farmers. The Nudds were numerous in Norfolk, mostly in the Seaward Parish. Vital records from that parish are not existent prior to 1671.

Henry Dow of Ormsby, England married the widow of his friend, a year older than himself, took her baby boy and had three children of his own and was able to start with a servant. This latter does not indicate affluence. Passage to America was very costly. Young men and women of good families gladly indentured themselves for a long term if the employer would pay their passage. It was in this way that Margaret Cole, who became Henry Dow’s second wife came to Dedham, Massachusetts with the family of Mitchill/Mitchell Metcalfe. From Henry Dow are descended nearly three-fifth of all the Dows in America.

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•Name: Jane Nudd

•Sex: F

•Death: in 20 Apr 1640

Marriage 2 HENRY DOW b: 05 OCT 1606 in Runham, Norfolk, England Married: 11 Feb 1630

Children

1. Thomas Dow b: 27 DEC 1631 in England

2. Henry Dow b: 1634 in Ormsby, Norfolkshire, England

3. Joseph Dow b: 20 MAR 1638/39 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Marriage 1 Roger Nudd

Children

1. Thomas Nudd b: 1628

Source: rootsweb