Martha Gilbert

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Martha (Barnes) Gilbert (1686 - 1746)

Martha Gilbert formerly Barnes

Born 24 Nov 1686 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Daughter of Thomas Barnes and Mary (Howe) Barnes

Sister of Samuel Barnes, Prudence (Barnes) Warner, Lydia (Barnes) Gilbert, Thankful (Barnes) Olmstead, Noah Barnes and Comfort Barnes

Wife of Thomas Gilbert — married about 1702 (to about 18 Nov 1746) in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Mother of Jonathan Gilbert, David Gilbert, Bathsheba (Gilbert) Abbott, Mary (Gilbert) Goss, Uriah Gilbert, Martha (Gilbert) Brown, Josiah Gilbert Sr., Jonathan Gilbert, Thomas Gilbert, Eunice Gilbert, Lois Gilbert and Dinah Gilbert

Died 18 Nov 1746 at age 59 in Brookfield, Worcester, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Biography

Martha Barnes was born in 1686; she married Thomas Gilbert IV, as his first wife, about 1703 based on the birth of their first recorded child in that year in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Martha died in Brookfield in the fall of 1746; Thomas remarried a woman with a somewhat similar name to Martha's, the widow Mercy (Gilbert) Barnes, in about 1747. The similarity has contributed to some confusion of the two women in other genealogies.

Notes: A second marriage previously shown in this profile, to Bartholomew Jacobs, is not possible as Martha's first marriage ended with her death in 1746; Bartholomew Jacobs's marriage was recorded in 1766.

The death year of 1746 is plainly shown in the transcript of the Brookfield record; J.H. Temple, in his genealogy of this line, evidently misinterpreted the date as 1740, and the second marriage of Thomas Gilbert IV as occurring in 1741 rather than 1747.

Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Ancestry Sharing Link [1]
History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts Ancestry Sharing Link
Original data: Temple, J. H.. History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts : preceded by an account of Old Quabang, Indian and English occupation, 1647-1676 : Brookfield records, 1686-1783. North Brookfield, Mass.: The town, 1887.
Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850[2]
Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850 Ancestry Sharing Link [3]
Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988 Ancestry Sharing Link [4]
Sources

↑ U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934: The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Title: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; NAI Number: T288; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773-2007; Record Group Number: 15; Series Title: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; Series Number: T288; Roll: 175 Ancestry Record 4654 #11813781 U.S., Civil War Pension Index:
Name: Martha L Gilbert
Gender: Female
Filing Date: 6 Mar 1913
Place Filed: Kentucky, USA
Relation to Head: Widow
Spouse: Thomas T Gilbert
Roll number: 175
↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850. With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through Family History Centers throughout the United States. See table below for information listed. Ancestry Record 7853 #43336 Marriage:
Name: Mrs. Marcy Barns
Gender: Female
Spouse: Thomas Gilburt
Marriage Date: 27 May 1740
City: Brookfield
County: Worchester
Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0547195.
↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850: New England Historical Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vitals to 1850 Ancestry Record 61401 #76464320 Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850:
Name: Martha Gilbert
Gender: Female
Spouse: Thomas Gilbert
Child: Martha Gilbert
↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Ancestry Record 2495 #80041426 Death:
Name: Martha Gilburt
Event Type: Death
Death Date: 18 Nov 1746
Death Place: Brookfield, Massachusetts
Spouse Name: Thomas
Abbott, Lemuel Abijah. Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Mass. (Abbott, Boston, 1906)
Death: Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7670/491/22249802 (subscription required)
Birth and death: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 January 2019), memorial page for Martha Barnes Gilbert (24 Nov 1686–18 Nov 1746), Find A Grave Memorial no. 102916508; Maintained by Grandma (contributor 46890409) Unknown; Find A Grave: Memorial #102916508
Temple, Rev. J. H., Thomas Gilbert of Springfield and His Immediate Descendants. Some New Facts., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1888) Vol. 42, Page 282: Martha Barns and Mercy Barns are two different people.
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