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Walker William [Male] b. 1400 England - d. 1464

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Walker Thomas [Male] b. 1368 England - d. 1428

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Walker John [Male] b. 1335 - d. 1395

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Walker Thomas [Male] b. 1305 - d. 1365

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Walker Robert [Male] b. 1275 - d. 1335

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Walker Cuthbert [Male] b. 1245 - d. 1305

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Our place of origin in England was the Parish of Northallerton in North Yorkshire. There lived in the 1200's Cuthbert Walker our first Walker ancestor. He was perhaps the son of Robert, son of William and had elder brothers Robert and William. Cuthbert was a Walker or Fuller by trade. Hence his surname. Before that he would have been know Cuthbert son of Robert or Robertson. Fulling was a process in the making of cloth, when after spinning it was shrunk, by being put in a tub with fullers earth and trampled or Walked. As a common occupation hence there were very many different families of Walkers not related to each other. However it seems that all the Walkers within 10 miles of Northallerton were all descendants of Cuthbert. In 1301 he paid 16 pence in tax. His son Robert may have had another son Cuthbert who was the ancestor of the family of Cuthbert who lived near by and used the same christian names as our family. At this time surnames were not settled and brothers could have different ones. There are very few records of this early period of family history there fore there is some uncertainty about the relationship of various members of the family to each other, but I have shown what I consider to be the most likely. Names down to about 1850 in most families, children were named after parents, Grandparents, Aunties and Uncles, hence some names keep repeating generation after generation and give a sense of oneness in a family.

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Mac Garaidh William [Male] b. AFT 1180 - d. AFT 1200

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WALKER: The Gaelic form MACNUCATOR derives from "Mac an fhucadair" ('son of the fuller(of the cloth)'), of which the old Scots equivalent is 'Waulker', derived from 'Walker', a Middle English form which comes from the Old English 'wealcere'. The form 'Walker' is also found in England, Ireland and elsewhere, and although amongst the 30 most common names in Scotland, such ancestry should not be assumed without genealogical or geographical evidence. Many of todays Walkers were originally MacNucators, but as the name prospered in many parts of Scotland devoid of Highland association, and given the widespread distribution of the occupation, it seems most unlikely that many were related, other than by continuation of the tradition of that trade within their own family. Such trade names were not patronymics, but were used for the sake of distinction within the particular clan or community in which they dwelt. In 1613-14, persons of this name in Balquidder, Perthshire were fined for reset (sheltering) of members of the proscribed Clan Gregor, and in 1655 Patrick McNowcatter was acting as procurator-fiscal for Argyll. Duncan McNowcater (alias Mcmillan) in Ballyaurgan is recorded as a witness to a Dunmore (Knapdale) sasine in 1666, and it is probable that those MacNucators (Walkers) belonging to Argyll, especailly Knapdale, descend directly from the Clan Macmillan. Several of this race are buried near Dunmore on West Loch Tarbert. Whilst the bulk of MacNucators changed their name to Walker, there was a Dundee family who retained the name Nucator. Some MacNucators followed the Stewarts of Appin in the Rising of 1745, and there is a colony of Walkers around Boisdale amd Daliburgh on South Uist. Helen Walker (d.1791) walked from Scotland to London to petition for the life of a sister who had been condemned to death for infanticide, and her story provided the model for Sir Walter Scott's tale of "Jeanie Deans". Currently there is no clan chief, nor is there an official clan tartan, but those who have Argyll ancestry and consider themselves to be members of the Clan Macmillan, use the emblems of kinship of that race as a mark of respect to the chief. Undoubtedly, many Walkers and MacNucators will be able to trace an ancestry to areas dominated by other clans, and if such association be established it is quite appropriate to adopt their tartans etc.

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Mac Garaidh William [Male] b. BET 1115 AND 1175

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Holbrook Joanna [Female] b. 1645 Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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Holbrook Thomas [Male] b. 1648 Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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Holbrook John [Male] b. 15 OCT 1653 Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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Holbrook Deacon Peter [Male] b. 6 SEP 1656 Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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Holbrook Joseph [Male] b. 10 APR 1660 Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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Holbrook Mary [Female] b. 1663 Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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Holbrook Thomas [Male] b. 1 MAR 1598/99 Eversley, Glastonbury, Somerset, England - d. 10 MAR 1676/77 Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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Immigration: 1635

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Immigration: 7 JUN 1635

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Thomas Holbrook of Weymouth 1599-1677

Birth 1 MAR 1599 Glastonbury, Somerset, England
Death 10 MAR 1677 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Parents: William Holbrook and Edith Coles
Spouse Jane Powyers (see note)

Please note that according to the latest research published by NEHGS in 2000 in:

Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, "Leland" in The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000), Part IV 452

Thomas Holbrook of Weymouth only had one spouse Jane Powyes. The author points out that Savage created a fictional wife named Experience Leland in error who never existed. This error was copied to various histories such as the History of Weymouth. It is not correct.

Marriage

There were two men named Thomas Holbrook. This Thomas Holbrook of Weymouth married only once to Jane Powyers. Note some internet websites show other wives - that is not correct according to the latest research published by NEHGS in 2000 in Kempton Ancestry Park IV.

Note that Experience (Leland) Holbrook Did Not Exist. Savage originally conflated the son of Henry Leland with a fictitious father and the created two fictitious siblings Experience and Lydia Leland. Experience supposedly married Thomas Holbrook. There is no evidence for this and neither Experience or Lydia ever existed. This error was copied to later histories such as History Of Weymouth 2:204 from Savage. Note there was two men named Thomas Holbrook. Thomas Holbrook of Dorchester, Medfield and Sherborn had only two wives: Hannah Shepard and Margaret (Unknown). Thomas Holbrook of Weymouth has only one wife: Jane Powyers.

Source: Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, "Leland" in The ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2000) Part IV 452 f

Notes from Pam Wilson's file

Thomas HOLBROOK - b. about 1590, Somerset, England; d. 1677, Weymouth, MA. Lived at Broadway, Somerset, England. Left Weymouth, England Mar. 30, 1635 at age 34 in the 'Marygold' with wife and oldest five children, arriving at Dorchester on Jun. 7, 1635 and settling at Weymouth the same month. His will, dated Dec. 31, 1668 with codicil Dec. 31, 1673, and proved Apr. 24, 1677, Weymouth, MA, names wife Jane, three sons, three married daughters, and grandchildren John, Peter and William HOLBROOK. Freeman 1645. A selectman at Weymouth six times (1641-1654), and a grantee of Rehoboth, MA, although he forfeited the grant and remained at Weymouth. A deposition made Nov. 7, 1666 gives Thomas' age as 77 years. Married Sep. 12, 1616, St. John the Baptist parish, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England.

Jane POWYES - b. about 1594, England; d. before Apr. 24, 1677, Weymouth, MA.

Children:

1. John - bap. Apr. 6, 1617, St. John's, Glastonbury, England; d. Nov. 23, 1699, Weymouth, MA. Gravestone indicates he was age 82, whereas passenger list gives age of 11 in 1635. was born by 1644, and John took the Freeman's oath 1640. Holder of various public offices, property holder, lender. Served during King Philip's War. Captain. Will dated Jul. 12, 1699. Married first Sarah (d. Jan. 14, 1643/4); second Elizabeth STREAM (b. 1624; d. Jun. 25, 1688), daughter of John and Elizabeth; and third Mary WHITE, daughter of Thomas and Mary

(PRATT) WHITE. Children of first marriage: John married Abigail PIERCE; Abiezer did not marry; Hannah married Ephraim PIERCE; and Samuel married Lydia. Children of second marriage: Sarah married Simon WHITMARSH; Elizabeth married Joseph NASH (ancestors of Pres. George Herbert Walker BUSH); Mary; Lois married Mr. NASH; Eunice married Benjamin LUDDEN; Experience married Joseph EDSON; and Ichabod married Sarah TURNER.

2. Thomas - b. about 1625, England; d. Jul. 22, 1697, Braintree, MA. Resided at Scituate, Weymouth, and Braintree, MA. Owner of vast real estate. Will mentions sons Peter, William and Thomas. Married 1650 Joanna KINGMAN (b. 1624; d. after 1696), daughter of Henry and Joanna KINGMAN. Children: Thomas married Deborah DAMON; John; Peter married Alice GODFREY (ancestors of Pres. William Howard TAFT); Joanna married Uriah CLARK; Joseph died young; Mary; Susanna married Andrew WILLET; and a daughter died in infancy.

3. William - bap. Jun. 12, 1620, St. John's Church, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England; d. Jul. 3, 1699, Scituate, MA.

4. Ann - b. about 1630, England. Married John REYNOLDS. Daughter: Mary.

5. Elizabeth - bap. Feb. 13, 1630/1, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England. Married May 6, 1650, Scituate, MA Walter HATCH (d. 1701), son of William and Jane HATCH. Children: Hannah; Samuel; Jane; Antipas; Bethiah; John; Israel; and Joseph.

6. Jane - b. about 1637, Weymouth, MA; d. about 1679. Married Thomas DRAKE. Children: John; William; Joseph; Amy; and Benjamin.

Source: Steven Lawson

Sue Holbrook provides the list of children and dates listed on family group page, and argues that wife was Jane Powys and not Kingman. His will executed 31 Dec 1668 names daughters Anne Rennolds, Elizabeth Hatch and Jane Drake. An addition to the will written 31 Dec 1673 that names grandson Peter Holbrooke.

Bill Mongman says Thomas and family came to America in 1635 on the ship Marygold, citing work by J. C. Halbrooks' The Holbrook Report. Listed on a passemger list embarking from Weymouth, England. A deposition made 2 Nov 1666 by Thomas states he is 77 years old and that the company arrived at Dorchester 7 Jun 1635, stayed there a fortnight then moved to Weymouth where her built a house.
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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the ..., Volume 1 edited by William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams
http://books.google.com/books?id=kmujIJi3_FkC&pg=PA323&lpg=PA323&dq=Elizabeth+Holbrook+1630&source=bl&ots=asH9_-4ebl&sig=t3mxMBQto-r1Z2fEXnQxb-mDDoM&hl=en&ei=cnHXTLbCKpT2tgORoqWOCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCMQ6AEwBTge#v=snippet&q=Thomas%20Holbrook&f=false
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(I) Thomas Holbrook or Holbrooke, immigrant ancestor, aged thirty-four, of Broadway, England, with wife Jane, aged thirty-four, and children- John, aged eleven; Thomas, aged ten; Anne, aged five, and Elizabeth, aged one, came from Weymouth, England, about 1628. He settled at Weymouth and in 1640 was on the committee to lay out the way from Braintree to Dorchester. he was admitted a freeman in May 1645. He was selectman several years. His will was dated December 31, 1668, with codicil December 31, 1673. He died 1674-76. His widow Jane died before April 24, 1677, when administration of the estate was granted to his son John. Children: 1. John, born 1617, mentioned below. 2. Thomas died 1697; married Joanna ___. 3. Captain William, died 1699; resided at Scituate. 4. Ann, married ___ Renolds. 5. Elizabeth, married Walter Hatch. 6. Jane, married ___ Drake.
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Genealogical and family history of central New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation by Cutter, William Richard
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https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalfami05cutt#page/503/mode/1up
(The Holbrook Line).
Elizabeth Holbrook. wife of Walter Hatch (see Hatch), was of English descent, perhaps birth. Her father, Thomas Holbrook, born in Brantry, England, came to America in 1635, with his wife Jane and four children, two more being born in America. He settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he became a man of wealth and prominence. He was one of the original grantees of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, but for not removing to his lands there they were forfeited in 1645. He owned lands in Scituate. Massachusetts, where his sons, Captain William and Thomas (2) removed in 1660. Captain William purchased land in Conihassett and made permanent settlement. Thomas, however, only remained until after his marriage in Scituate to Deborah Daman, then shortly after returned to Weymouth. Thomas was selectman of Weymouth, 1645-46-51-54. He was elected representative to the general court, 1649, and was one of the committee to lay out the highway between' Weymouth and Dorchester. Thomas and Jane Holbrook had three sons and three daughters, as named in his will, which was probated April 24, 1677. although made December 31, 1668, with codicil, five years later. His -wife Jane survived him. The will recites : "To wife Jane all my estate during her life," (requesting sons John. William and Thomas to be helpful to her) "as she is ancient and weak of body." His property was afterward to be divided between the three sons and "my three daughters. Ann Reynolds, Elizabeth Hatch and Jane Drake." Elizabeth married Walter Hatch, who was of the second generation in America, and progenitor of Albert Gallatin Hatch, of the eighth generation.
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Thomas Holbrook
M, #73303, b. 1 March 1589, d. 10 March 1677
Father William Holbrook b. c 1568, d. 11 Dec 1625
Mother Edith Saunders b. c 1570
Thomas Holbrook was born on 1 March 1589 at Eversley, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England. He married Jane Powys, daughter of William Powys and Elizabeth, on 12 September 1616 at St. John's, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England. Thomas Holbrook died on 10 March 1677 at Weymouth, Plymouth, MA, at age 88.
Family Jane Powys b. c 1592, d. 24 Apr 1677
Children
William Holbrook+ b. 12 Jun 1620, d. 3 Jul 1699
Elizabeth Holbrook+ b. 13 Feb 1631, d. 5 Aug 1674
From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2439.htm#i73303
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POWYES, Jane
b. ABT 1594
d. 24 APR 1677
Family:
Marriage: 12 SEP 1616 St John's, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England
Spouse: HOLBROOK, Thomas
b. ABT 1590 Somerset, England
d. 1677 Weymouth, Norfolk, Mass.
Children:
HOLBROOK, John
HOLBROOK, William
HOLBROOK, Thomas
HOLBROOK, Elizabeth
From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_204.htm#5
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New England families, genealogical and memorial: a record of the ..., Volume 2 edited by William Richard Cutter
http://books.google.com/books?id=ofcsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA838&lpg=PA838&dq=Thomas+Holbrook+April+1677&source=bl&ots=0xD0Xm3qIT&sig=G2OZU7SZ-fFF4yOLan-J_7P8aLc&hl=en&ei=Q5LXTOyWBYiosAPHlPyMCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Holbrook&f=false
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(VI) Jonathan, son of Abraham (4) Staples..... etc.
He married Rachel Holbrook, of Mendon, died March 9, 1832, aged seventy-nine, daughter of Thomas Holbrook. One deed appears on the records of Worcester county in which three daughters of Thomas Holbrook deed their rights to the estate of their father to Sylvanus Holbrook, probably their brother, June 21, 1781. The grantors in this deed were John Benson and wife Molly (Holbrook) of Mendon; Jonathan Staples and wife Rachel (Holbrook) of Mendon; Thaddeus Thayer and wife Margaret (Holbrook) of Douglas. The consideration was eighty pounds. In 1780 Jonathan and Jacob Stapes were reported as of Windham county, Vermont, town of Wardsboro, and Jonathan had two sons under sixteen and three females in his family. Thomas Holbrook was son of Sylvanus and Nancy (Cook) Holbrook, of Mendon. Sylvanus Holbrook was born August 15, 1685, died at Uxbridge in 1740, a housewright by trade. Deacon Peter Holbrook, born September 6, 1655, died May 3, 1712, father of Sylvanus, lived a short distance southeast of the village of Mendon and owned lands in Bellingham; married (first) Alice___, and (second) after 1705, Elizabeth Pool. Thomas Holbrook, father of Deacon Peter Holbrook, resided at Scituate, Weymouth and Braintree, and was a man of wealth; married Joanna ___, Thomas Holbrook, father of Thomas Holbrook, was the immigrant, born in England; settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and died in 1674-75; his widow Joanna died before April, 1677; he was selectman of Weymouth many years and held other offices. Children: Sally Staples, Sylvia Staples, Ellery Staples, born March 4, 1784; Willard Staples, Rachel Staples, Abraham Staples, Jonathan Staples, mentioned below.
.... etc.
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Thomas Holbrook

Immigrated with his wife, Jane Powys about 20 Mar 1634/35 with Reverend Joseph Hull's Company aboard the Marygold. He originated in Broadway, Somerset, England and settled in Weymouth, MA. He became a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in May of 1645. Thomas was one of the grantees of Rehoboth.

Thomas Holbrook

Immigrant from England to Massachusetts along with his parents (above), settling in Braintree in 1653. Married Joanna Kingman in 1650.
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Thomas Holbrooke with his brother John and a party of other immigrants left Weymouth in Dorsetshire, England in 1624 and landed on the coast of Massachusetts the same year, where they founded the town of Weymouth. John served many years as selectman of Weymouth. He died at the latter place in 1676. His widow Joanna died in 1677.

All the Holbrookes in the United States came from one of these two brothers.

I found other entries for Thomas that differs from the information that Mary Helen found. One states that (using information from his will) his wife's name was Jane, not Joanna. The other info states that Thomas arrived in the US in either 1636/37 on a ship with his wife and 4 children coming from the town of Broadway. (Public Record Office at Kew, England)

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Powyes Jane [Female] b. ABT MAR 1591/92 St John The Baptist, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England - d. 4 APR 1677 Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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Jane POWYES - b. 1600, England; d. Apr. 24, 1677, Weymouth, MA. Married Thomas Holbrook at St. John the Baptist in Glastonbury, England in 1616.

Thomas and Jane became ancestors of Presidents GARFIELD, BUSH and TAFT (the latter through three lines).

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Powyes-5

Jane Powyes, daughter of (William) Powyes and Elizabeth Sims, was born between 1592 and 1602 at Glastonbury, Somerset, England.[1] Jane married Thomas Holbrook on 12 SEP 1616 at St. John's Glastonbury Co. Somerset, England.[2][3]

Jane came to New England with her husband Thomas Holbrook as part of Reverend Joseph Hull's Company, arriving at Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony on the sixth of May, 1635.

Thomas and Jane had six children, all born at Glastonbury.

John Holbrook
William Holbrook
Thomas Holbrook Jr
Anne Holbrook
Elizabeth Holbrook
Jane Holbrook

Jane died 24 April, 1677 at Weymouth

Marriage

There were two men named Thomas Holbrook. This Thomas Holbrook of Weymouth married only once to Jane Powyers. Note some internet websites show other wives - that is not correct according to the latest research published by NEHGS in 2000 in Kempton Ancestry Park IV.

Note that Experience (Leland) Holbrook Did Not Exist. Savage originally conflated the son of Henry Leland with a fictitious father and the created two fictitious siblings Experience and Lydia Leland. Experience supposedly married Thomas Holbrook. There is no evidence for this and neither Experience or Lydia ever existed. This error was copied to later histories such as History Of Weymouth 2:204 from Savage. Note there was two men named Thomas Holbrook. Thomas Holbrook of Dorchester, Medfield and Sherborn had only two wives: Hannah Shepard and Margaret (Unknown). Thomas Holbrook of Weymouth has only one wife: Jane Powyers.

Source: Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, "Leland" in The ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2000) Part IV 452 f

Experience Holbrook Did Not Exist

According to the latest research published by NEHGS in 2000 Experience (Leland) Holbrook never existed. The author explains that Savage originally conflated the son of Henry Leland with a fictitious father and the created two fictitious siblings Experience and Lydia Leland. Experience supposedly married Thomas Holbrook. There is no evidence for this and neither Experience or Lydia ever existed. This error was copied to later histories such as History Of Weymouth 2:204 from Savage. Note there was two men named Thomas Holbrook. Thomas Holbrook of Dorchester, Medfield and Sherborn had only two wives: Hannah Shepard and Margaret (Unknown). Thomas Holbrook of Weymouth has only one wife: Jane Powyers.

Source

Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, "Leland" in The ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2000) Part IV 452 f
https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Jane_Powyes_%281%29
Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011) Vol. III (-H), p. 352. �Thomas Holbrook m. St. Johns, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England 12 Sep 1616 Jane Powys [citing Davis?], who d. bet. 31 Dec 1673 [named in husband's codicil] and 24 Apr 1677 [contingent executor, her son John, named for husband's estate, indicating she, the primary executrix, had apparently died].�