Thank you for the clues. Can you provide a source for the Katherine's letter item and put it in context -- fill me in on why it is relevant. Stew Rowe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darlene Walsh" <dnwalsh@hls-inc.net> To: "Stewart Rowe" <srowe@fuse.net> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [PLY/MA] Walden and Wheldon, 1630s > According to The Winthrop Fleet there was a Robert Weldon in Charlestown, a > captain in the military He died 16 Feb 1630/1 and was given a military > funeral. His wife Elizabeth left and went to Watertown according to the > church records of the First Church. > The Pioneers of Massachusetts by Pope says pretty much the same thing but > adds that he died of consumption and that he was buried in Boston. > > Perhaps they were the children of this couple? > > The Pioneers of Mass lists John, but doesn't say where Ann came from. Do > you have all their children? > > I look under Walden an found that Anne was a church member in 1632 in Boston > and that she and John married 29 Nov 1638 in Plymouth. It doesn't say that > this was the same church as the above Walden couple but it may well be. > Have you tried checking the church records in Boston? > > OOPS BINGO I just looked up Katherine and found this: > > "Katharine, wrote a letter to John Shanvat of Nottingham, 29 (4) 1639, > concerning the death of Martha Wheelden of Dedham, drowned about 12 days > before. [L} Katharine m. at Plymouth 9 Oct. 1639, Giles Hopkins." > > It sounds like Martha may have been her mother. I would look in Dedham and > Nottingham England church records. Sounds like she came from Nottingham so > maybe the church there would have a baptismal record. > > Well I hope this has helped. > Darlene > >