wife of unknown Barstow

Evidence needed to support as the same person as Isabella Barstow

Four brothers came to New England from Yorkshire during “the great Puritan migration.”.

Given the size of the parish of Halifax and the multiplicity of Barstow families therein, further research needs to be undertaken before we can identify the parents of Michael Barstow and his brothers. So evidence is needed to support their parents as Isabella Barstow & Matthew Barstow, II, and “placeholder” profiles of unknown Barstow and wife of unknown Barstow have been created ínstead.

The brothers were:

1. Michael Barstow about 1600 in Parish Shelf, Near Halifax, County York, Yorkshire, England; and died between 23 Jun 1674 (date will written) and 13 May 1676 (date of inventory) at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, New England. Name also seen as Miles Bastow. Married 1) Grace Barstow 2) Mercy Barstow 3) Grace Barstow. No known children
2. William Barstow (surname spelled: Beresto) who at the age of 23 embarked with his brother George on September 20, 1635 for New England in the Truelove, (corrected from Bond p. 679) John Gibbs Master.[9] He was a single man at the time.[10] He first settled in Dedham and soon moved to Scituate. Farmer says he was admitted as freeman in 1649. He died in Dedham on January 1, 1668, leaving a widow Anna and 8 children: His daughter Deborah married Philip Shattuck on November 9, 1670; Joseph was baptized in Dedham on April 25, 1641; Mary was baptized January 2, 1642/3.
3. George Barstow (surname spelled: Beresto) who at age 21, with his brother William,[11] embarked for New England on September 20, 1635 in the Truelove, (corrected from Bond p. 679) John Gibbs, Master[12]He married Susanna Barstow, daughter of Deacon Thomas and Susanna Marrett of Cambridge. He was a householder and a member of the 2nd Church in 1652. In 1653 he returned to Cambridge and died March 18, 1653/4. He died "from the treatment he received from Mr. (afterwards President) Chauncy. His widow, Susannah, died the following month, April 17, 1654, leaving two children: Margaret born 1650, and George born March 1652.
4. John Barstow d. Feb. 13, 1657/8. At age 33 he drowned coming from Dedham, in the night after falling through the ice near Mr. Parker's farm. Widow: Name unknown. 3 sons - Michael b. 1653 at Watertown, m. Rebecca Traine, died 1698, had 1 daughter Hannah; John; Jeremiah, perhaps the one whom Deane (History of Scituate, p. 218) attributes to his brother William.

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Disputed Origins

A lineage is seen as “MICHAEL MILES5 BARSTOW (MATTHEW4, MATHEW3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1).

"Bond found the baptism at Shelf, Halifax, Yorkshire, 17 Nov 1600, of Michael Barstow, son of Matthew Barstow [Bond 677]; Matthew Wood found the baptism at Halifax, 6 Jan 1600/1, of Michael Barstow, son of Michael Barstow of Northowram [NYGBR 121:98]. Given the size of this parish and the multiplicity of Barstow families therein, further research needs to be undertaken before we can identify the parents of Michael Barstow and his brothers.)[1][2] There are also baptisms of Michaels (son of Michael) on 17 Feb 1599 and 18 Jan 1600 at St. john the Baptist in Halifax.[3]

From the Great Migration Begins, Volume 1, Page 174:

References

1. Great Migration 1634-1635, A-B, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 1, A-B, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999), 171-4, https://www.americanancestors.org/DB114/i/7051/173/22074622 accessed 18 May 2022. link
2. Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston : to which is Appended the Early History of the Town. 2nd Edition, (Boston: N.E. Historic-genealogical Society, 1860), 18, Digital Image Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/stream/genealogiesoffam00bond#page/18/mode/2up accessed 29 October 2017).
3. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, 677, Digital Image Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/stream/genealogiesoffam00bond#page/676/mode/2up accessed 29 October 2017).
4. The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents by Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918 page 209

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/MQ7C-NHX
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barstow-225
• The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian ..., Volume 8. Page 169. <GoogleBooks>. “Michael Barstow’s Will.”
• "The Wives of Michael Barstow and Richard Carver of Watertown, Massachusetts and the Identity of the Wives of William Randall of Scituate and William Perry of Marshfield" by Robert Charles Anderson from the "NEHGS Register" 146:233-4; The New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; 1992 (974.0 NEa SCGS) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/rd/11691/230/23525075
• <“ The Descendants of William Barstow and Isabel Wollar of Yorkshire.”> has errors