Margaret Witchfield

Biography

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Margaret was the daughter of Isabel Wilkinson, and she had a sister Jane, who married Edward Winship.[1]

Margaret married twice. First to widower Edward Goffe in 1639 at Cambridge. Edward and Margaret had three children: Deborah, Hannah and Abiah. Edward died in 1658. [2]

In December 1662, Margaret married John Witchfield at Cambridge.[3] Bailey gives the name of Margaret's second husband as "John Pitchfeild,"[4] but his name was John Witchfield.[5] John was a widower who had come to Massachusetts in 1632 aboard the Lyon. He was called Mr. Witchfield, showing high social standing. By 1637, he had moved to Windsor, Connecticut. Margaret moved to Windsor with him after their marriage, and that is where she died on July 27, 1669. Their there no children of this second marriage. John died at Windsor on March 26, 1678/79

References

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34908875/john-witchfield John Witchfield Married (2) Cambridge [blank] December 1662 Margaret Goffe; she was widow of Edward Goffe of Cambridge. She died at Windsor on 27 July 1669.”
• Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 as found on the Ancient Court Records of the Counties of Middlesex, Hampshire, Berkshire and Bristol, Third Book. Worcester, MA: n.p., by author, 1914. [ ]
• Title: Great Migration 1634-1635, G-H. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. Page 97. AncestryImage
• Vital records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Vital records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 ed. Vol. II, Marriages and Deaths. Boston, Mass.: n.p. [Wright & Potter Print. Co.], 1914-15. Open Library
• West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Yorkshire Parish Records. Leeds, England: West Yorkshire Archive Service.Original data: Yorkshire Parish Records. Leeds, England: West Yorkshire Archive Service.