A more probable origin for Mr. Wentworth Day of Massachusett

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A more probable origin for Mr. Wentworth Day of Massachusett

Legg inn av John Brandon » 04 aug 2005 22:04:45

Gary Body Roberts, in _RD600_, p. 426, says ...

"Margery Despencer = Sir Roger Wentworth. Their son, Henry Wentworth,
married Jane FitzSimon (a second wife; ...) and left a son, Sir
Nicholas Wentworth, who married Jane Josselyn and was the father of
Elizabethan Parliamentary leaders Paul and Peter Wentworth, the former
of whom married Helen Agmondesham and left a daughter Helen Wentworth,
wife of William Day. Wentworth Day, a son of these last, was probably
the immigrant to Massachusetts who married Elizabeth Story, left
children but no NDTPS (notable descendants treated in printed sources),
and probably returned to England."

It is true that the 1623 Berkshire Visitation, vol. 1, p. 83, shows
such a person. See

http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/ ... index.html

A more likely identity for Mr. Wentworth Day of Mass., I think, is as a
descendant of the Wentworths of South Elmsal, Yorkshire. Rev. Joseph
Hunter's _South Yorkshire_, 2:456, a pedigree of this family, shows an
Elizabeth Wentworth, daughter of Thomas of Thurnscoe Grange, who
married John Day of Elmsal. Two generations further down in the chart
is another Wentworth-Day marriage: Mary Wentworth who married Thomas
Day of Elmsal on 30 Nov. 1631.

These Wentworths of South Elmsal would be (distant) kin of the
Wentworths believed to have immigrated to northern New England (maybe
Paul can address this if he's in a less delusional state than when we
last heard from him).

I believe Wentworth Day of Mass. has living descendants, even if none
were NDTPS (wretched acronym).

See Savage's _Genealogical Dictionary_:

[DAY], WENTWORTH, Boston 1640, has prefix of respect on adm. to the ch.
22 Sept. but call.a single man; soon after m. had Elizabeth bapt. 26
Sept. 1641, at 8 days old; and Wentworth, 13 Aug. 1643, at 6 days. He
was a surgeon at Cambridge, and is honor. by Rev. Mr. Hale in his tract
on Witchcraft, as saving in 1602, a woman charg. with the horrid
offence. Perhaps he went home, for one of this unusual name was, in
1668, fin. and imprison. as one of the fifth monarchy men, setting up
the imaginary reign of King Jesus to disturb the absolute throne of
Oliver Cromwell in his last yr. In Sept. 1661, liv. in London, he had a
legacy in the will of Edward Shrimpton.

[SYMONDS], HARLAKENDEN, Gloucester, s. of Samuel the first, b. in Eng.
a. 1628, brot. by his f. in 1637, freem. 1665, had w. Elizabeth call.
in the will of 3 May 1670, made by Sarah, wid. of Richard Mather (wh.
had been wid. of great John Cotton, and in Eng. by him m. as the wid.
Story), her gr.ch. and may well be judg. the same in Cotton's will,
1652, nam. as his ch. Betty Day. We know, Cotton then had no gr. ch.
and this ch. must have been b. of some d. of the wid. Story, wh. in
Eng. or here had m. a Day. That name is found early both at Ipswich and
Gloucester; but, tho. Mr. Felt has large [[vol. 4, p. 245]] acquaint.
with the early inhab. of both those towns, he can discov. no f. for.
this w. of Symonds. By her he had, at G. Sarah, b. 2 July 1668, wh. by
the will of her gr. gr. mo. Mather, had gift of one of her cows. But I
kn. no more of him exc. that he went home and liv. at Wethersfield in
Eng. 1672; nor is it kn. that he ever came back. Mr. Babson informs us,
that the wid. ret. to G. where the d. m. a. 1692 Thomas Low; and her
mo. d. 31 Jan. 1728, aged 90.

[LOW / LOWE], THOMAS, wh. m. Sarah, d. of Harlakenden Symonds, d. 8
Feb. 1698, leav. s. Symonds, Thomas, John, and d. Elizabeth.

See also
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi? ... t&id=I2119

I think there is more on the marriage of Wentworth Day and Elizabeth
Story in Charles Henry Pope, _Pioneers of Massachusetts_.

John Brandon

Re: A more probable origin for Mr. Wentworth Day of Massachu

Legg inn av John Brandon » 05 aug 2005 14:11:54

Savage's _Dictionary_:

[SYMONDS], HARLAKENDEN .... But I kn. no more of him exc. that he went
home and liv. at Wethersfield in Eng. 1672; nor is it kn. that he ever
came back.

He must have returned to New England at least once after 1672. See
_New England Historical and Genealogical Register_ 37:162-63:

The Testimoney of George Booth aged about 35 yeares Saith that he came
from England in a ship with Henry Dispaw Senr: and Henry Dispaw Junr:&
knew them both to be servants to mr John Gifford, and that they
didarive in Bostone the first daye of December in the yeare 1673:
Herlackendine Simonds testifieth to what is above and beneath written,
being a passenger coming over sea with them, to be truth to my best
knowledg: Taken upon oath: 1:10 mo.: 75: by all pties.

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