Mary Paddock

Peter holmes born about 1575 married Elizabeth Ireland born about 1580; They had Mary Holmes born about 1610 in Ireland; She died in 1651 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; She married Robert Paddock of French Extraction, but his family removed to Ireland where he met his Irish Wife, Mary; Robert was born 16 Sept 1584 in Stephenstwon, Balfrothery parish, Co. Dublin, Ireland, a son of Jean (John) Paddock and Jane Jennings

Robert Paddock Weaver, Constable (1584 - 1650)

Robert Paddock was born at Stephenstown, Balrothery Parish, County Dublin, Ireland, on 16 September 1584, son of John Paddock and Jennette Jennin. He was married first to Mary Ball before 3 April 1603. Mary was the daughter of Zachery and Margaret Ball. She died in September 1627 at Killany, County Louth, and was buried on 14 September. Mary Ball was born in 1582. If Robert had children by his first wife they are unknown. However, his son Robert, Jr., may be a son by his first wife.

Paddock’s second wife was Mary Holmes, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Ireland) Holmes, married on 12 October 1630 (making Robert age 48). Peter Holmes was a “recussant” and weaver of Killany, County Louth, Ireland. Her brother was Francis Holmes, who emigrated to Stamford, Connecticut, in 1648. Mary Holmes’s maternal grandfather was Lawrence Ireland.

In his mother’s Will, dated 3 April 1607, Robert was given his father’s blacksmith shop. At which trade he made his living.

Sometime between 1631 and 1634, the Paddock family emigrated to Plymouth Colony, New England, America.2 in the New World, Robert Paddock continued his trade as a blacksmith as mentioned in Colony records dated 4 June 1638.

Mary (Holmes) Paddock died shortly after the birth of her sixth child, John. Sometime between 1644 and 1646, Mary (Trine) Palmer married Robert Paddock, as his third wife, and now able to raise her son William Palmer. She had one child, Susanna, born in 1649, a year before Robert’s death in 1650.

Robert and Mary (Holmes) Paddock had six children.

• 1. Elizabeth Paddock - Born about 1632. Married William Palmer, Jr., about 1660, at Duxbury.
• 2. Robert Paddock, Jr. - Born about March 1634.
• 3. Zachariah Paddock - Born 20 March 1636. Mar ried Deborah Sears.
• 4. Mary Paddock - Born 10 March 1638.
• 5. Alice Paddock - Born 7 March 1640. Married on 7 May 1663, to Zachariah Eddy. Removed to Swansea, Massachusetts, where she died on 24 September 1692. She had ten children. (Please see Eddy family history.)
• 6. John Paddock - Born 1 April 1643. Married to Anna Jones.

ENDNOTES

1 Robert J. Curfman, The Paddock Genealogy. (Fort Collins, Colorado: 1977). Pp. 5-26. (FHL-USA/CAN 929.273 P131c.)

2 James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. (FHL-USA/CAN 974 D2n.); Family records of Patricia Paddock Rowell, Penn Valley, California. March 1991.

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Biography

• On 3 Dec 1650 Mary Paddock of Plymouth, widow, sold to Stephen Wood of Plymouth, for L9.10s, her house, garden plot, and shop situated in Plymouth aforesaid in the South Street and about 3 acres of upland in the Newfield bounded by the lands of Richard Sparrow and John Tompson.It was agreed she could dwell in the house until March the following year when payment was due.
• An otherwise provided burial of 14 Sep 1627 (in Killany, Ardee, Louth, Ireland) suggests that Mary Ball was a first wife, Mary Holmes was a second wife and mother of Robert Paddock's children, then widow Mary(

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  ) Palmer was his third wife who survived him.

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Birth: 1610
County Louth, Ireland Death: 1646
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA

Family links:
Spouse:
Robert Paddock (1584 - 1650) *

Children:
Zachariah Paddock (1636 - 1727) *
Alice Paddock Eddy (1640 - 1692) *
Susannah Paddock Eddy (1641 - 1670) *

Burial:
Non-Cemetery Burial
Specifically: Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

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Record added: Oct 29, 2011
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