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Martha Vinson (Shaw)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Northowram, Halifax, Yorkshire, England
Death: September 18, 1704
Weymouth, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Abraham Shawe, of Dedham and Bridget Shaw
Wife of Thomas Vinson
Sister of Susannah Byram; Joseph Shaw; Grace Richards; Martha Shaw (died young); Maria Bicknell and 2 others
Half sister of Grace Richards; Maria Bicknell and John ‘Weaver’ Shaw, of Weymouth

Managed by: Alice Zoe Marie Knapp
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About Martha Vinson

Not the same as Martha Tucker and not the husband of Henry Tucker


Biography

Martha (Shaw) Vinson died September 18, 1704, in Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay.[2] (citation needed)

“Notes and Queries", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
48:346, Jul 1894.

Parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, England:
Martha, of Abraham Shaw, Northow'm Baptized Janry 6th, 1632.

No death record for Martha Vinson is found in Weymouth deaths. Of course, the death of a married woman would be under her married name, hence dependent on the accuracy of the marriage. The marriage appears to come from Chamberlain's History of Weymouth, p. 4:611, where he says Martha m. "Thomas Vinson of Weymouth". (And of course it gets asserted in other works without evidence, presumably based on Chamberlain's authority.) I can find no marriage record, no births of children, nor a death of either alleged spouse. In the Vinson section of Chamberlain's book, there are no entries until John who arrives in the 1690s, so no notice of this alleged Thomas Vinson of Weymouth. There is a family in Gloucester, but their son Thomas wasn't born until 1675 or thereabouts. Martha's father died when she was young and she is still "Martha Shawe" in his will. In short, evidence of Martha's existence after the date of the will of her father seems completely lacking.

References

  1. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Martha_Shaw_(16)
  2. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 442
  3. Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 23 2020, 1:22:43 UTC
  4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shaw-10236 cites
    1. Chamberlain, George Walter. History_of_Weymouth_Massachusetts, Volume 4, Weymouth Historical Society, Weymouth, Mass. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, Mass.), 1923 Page 611. < Hathitrust >
  5. 1989: Russell Franklin Shaw, "English Ancestry of Abraham Shaw of Dedham, Massachusetts," The Genealogist, (Vol. 10 [Spring 1989]: 86-97. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2817/i/62887/86/10006609389
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Martha Vinson's Timeline

1623
December 1, 1623
Halifax, Yorkshire, England
December 1, 1623
Halifax, York, England
December 1, 1623
Halifax, York, England
December 1, 1623
Halifax, York, England
December 1, 1623
Halifax, York, England
December 1, 1623
Halifax, York, England
December 1, 1623
Halifax, York, England
1632
January 6, 1632
Northowram, Halifax, Yorkshire, England
January 6, 1632
Halifax, Yorkshire, England
January 6, 1632
Halifax, York, England, UK