Margaret Gilman

The wife of Edward Gilman was not Mary Hawes, daughter of Richard Hawes & Cisely Hawes. She seems to have been Margaret James, daughter of Robert James, yeoman, of Hingham, Norfolk, England.

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Disproved Origins

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hawes-989

The wife of Edward Gilman is unsourced. "Some online databases give her name as Mary HAWES but the source is unidentified. The LDS IGI lists Edward Gilman's (b. 1557) wife as Mary Hawes with no sources identified, and she is unnamed in the Gilman genealogy. (The Story of the Gilmans & a Gilman Genealogy - Constance Ames (1950))."[1] she died in 1617 or 1618. It is not certain of her marriage date to Edward Gilman. Since their first child was born in 1581 the marriage probably took place sometime in 1580.

Family

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Edward Gilman was baptized Caston, Norfolk, England, of Hingham, 20 April 1557, [1] [2][3]

[1557] Edward Gyllman ye sonn of Edward gyllman was baptised ye xxth day of Aprill A[nn]o predicto

He was the son of Edward and Rose (Rysse) Gilman of Caston,[2]

He married by about 1581 (birth of child, 1582), but his wife's name has been lost from official records.[2][5]

Children of Edward Gilman and his wife, _____.[6][7][2]

1. [Bridget] Gilman, born about 1582; married Edward Lincoln of Hingham. See Research Notes.
2. Edward Gilman (known as “the Emigrant"), born about 1587 (he was age 50 in 1637);[8] married Mary Clark:
3. Robert Gilman son of Edward Gylmmynne of Hingham, married (1) in Hingham, May 14, 1611, Rose Hawes; married (2) widow, Mary Bruen. See

Research Notes

1. John Gilman, married Ann Guerney:
2. Mary Gilman, born 1599, married Nicholas Jacob:
3. Margaret Gilman, baptized Hingham, Norfolk, 1 August 1602.
4. Sarah Gilman, baptized Hingham, 4 October or December 1603.[9]

Several of Edward's descendants emigrated from England to America.

Origins

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Robert James will was written on 6 March 1601/2 and proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Norfolk on 21 January 1602/3.[11] In that will, Robert clearly identifies that he has a son-in-law, Edward Gilman, and a granddaughter, Bridget Lincoln, who is the wife of Edward Lincoln. From the research and analysis of Charles Banks and Clarence Torrey, as reported in The American Genealogist, it is known that Bridget Lincoln's father was Edward Gilman.[2] Thus Edward Gilman, father of Bridget, was married to a daughter of Robert James.

A full transcript of his will is available, but the relevant extracts are:[11]

• I give and bequeath unto Bridget Lyncolne the wife of Edward Lyncolne, my grandchild, twenty shillings of lawful money of England to be paid unto her within three months next after my decease
• ... except all such debts as Edward Gylmine my son in law doth owe me by bond or without
• These being witnesses: Edward Gyllmyne...

The first name of Edward Gilman's wife is contained in Letters of Administration granted upon the death of Leonard James in the Archdeaconry Court of Norfolk on 14 January 1608/9.[12] One of the administrators of his estate was Edward Gilman, identified as being the husband of Margaret Gilman alias James, sister of Leonard James. The full record is (translated from Latin):[12]

The fourteenth day of the month of January in the year of Our Lord, according to the computation of the Anglican Church, one thousand, six hundred and eight above-mentioned, by the authority of the Archdeacon above-mentioned, administration of all and singular the goods, issues and credits of Leonard James, clerk, late of Rockland St Peter, deceased intestate, was entrusted to Henry and Samuel James, natural and lawful brothers of the said deceased, Edward Gyllman, the husband of Margaret Gyllman alias James, natural and lawful sister of the deceased, and Robert Jenipy, natural and lawful brother of Margaret (sic) James, widow, relict of the deceased, during the minority of Robert, Benjamin, Sarah, Mary and Ann James, natural and lawful children of the said deceased, lawfully sworn

Old note

Spouse 3; error has her dying in NH in 1618, Mary was first of five wives of Robert.

References

1. Baptism: "Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812" Norfolk > Caston > 1539-1720 > image 8 of 36 Norfolk Record Office; Norwich, Norfolk, England; Norfolk Church of England Registers Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 25 January 2022)
2. Clarence Almon Torrey, "English Origin of Edward^1 Gilman" in The American Genealogist, 11 (1934):137-138, at 137; and 193-194; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors. Citing work by Charles Edward Banks, so there is an earlier reference.
3. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NB91-FFH : 18 September 2020), Edward Gyllman, 1557.
4. Edward Gilman, 15 May 1619 burial, Caston, Norfolk, Norfolk Burials, Parish Burials, Norfolk Record Office PD 158/1; digital images by subscription, FindMyPast.
5. NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1994, Vol. 11, p. 204.
6. Walter Goodwin Davis, The ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts (Portland, Me. : Anthoensen Press, 1963), 153-160 (Gilman, of Exeter) at 157-158 digital images, Hathi Trust.
7. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis. Vol. II. Gardner-Moses. "Gilmans of Exeter"; this was otherwise published as Walter Goodwin Davis, The ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts (Portland, Me. : Anthoensen Press, 1963), 153-160 (Gilman, of Exeter) at 157; digital images, Hathi Trust. .
8. Citing "Public Record Office, Court of Requests, Charles I, Bundle 27, part 2," Walter Goodwin Davis, The ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts (Portland, Me. : Anthoensen Press, 1963), 153-160 (Gilman, of Exeter) at 158-59, 159n; digital images, Hathi Trust.
9. Sarah Gilman 1603 baptism, Parish register transcription, Caston, Norfolk; digital images, FamilySearch, FHL Digital Collection, DGS 7763895, image 485 of 902.
10. Constance LeNeve Gilman Ames, The Story of the Gilmans and a Gilman Genealogy (Yakima, Washington: Shields Ranier Printing Co., 1950), 36; digital images, Hathi Trust.
11. Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, Register copy wills, v. 35 (Offwood), 1602-1604, fol. 201 recto, will of Robert JAMES of Hingham, proved 21 January 1602/3; images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ : accessed 7 May 2022) DGS no. 8045773, image 210 of 468 (can be viewed at Family History Centres and Affiliate Libraries); Norfolk Record Office. Will Transcript
12. Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, Act books, v. 1-2 1541-1610, fol. 65 recto, letters of administration of Leonard JAMES of Rockland St Peter, granted 14 January 1608/9; images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ : accessed 7 May 2022) DGS no. 7904822, image 460 of 501; Norfolk Record Office. See also--
13. Charles Edward Banks, "The Emigrant Ancestor and Ancestress of Abraham Lincoln," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 60 (1929):115-117 at 116; digital images via FamilySearch Catalog, DGS 8131626, images 1131-1132 of 1355.
14. Constance LeNeve Gilman Ames, The Story of the Gilmans and a Gilman Genealogy (Yakima, Washington: Shields Ranier Printing Co., 1950), 36-37; digital images, Hathi Trust, includes sections, Clarence A. Torrey, "The Lincoln-Gilman Ancestry," and "Corrected Ancestry of Edward the Emigrant as stated by Mr. Clarence Torrey, Genealogist, Dorchester, Mass."
15. Alexander Gilman, Searches into the History of the Gillman or Gilman Family … (London, E. Stock, 1895), 141-164 (Gilmans of Norfolk); digital images, Hathi Trust].
16. Arthur Gilman, The Gilman Family … in England and America (Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell, 1869, rpt 1969), 31 (Edward Gilman m. Rose Rysse), 65 Children of Edward Gilman and wife _____); digital images, Hathi Trust.