General Notes
"Richard Mather was born in a Village called Lowton, situate in the Parish of Winwick, Anno Christi 1596. His parents Thomas and Margaret Mather were of ancient families in Lowton aforesaid, but by reason of some unhappy Mortgages, they
were reduced into a low condition in regard to their outward estate."
Thomas is not mentioned in his siblings wills (because he had died in 1633, the same year as his father John).
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1528 in Winwick d.24 Apr 1601 in Lancashire

- b.~ 1550 d.1633 in Lowton


- b.~ 1530 in Winwick
- b.1575 in Lowton d.1633

- d.> 1633 in Lowton
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Children
Rev Richard Mather
Richard was born in 1596 in
Lowton.
Birth Notes
Richard Mather was born in Lowton, a village in the parish of Winwick near Liverpool, England in 1596.
He died at the age of 73 on April 22nd, 1669 in
Massachusetts (MA).
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Death Notes
Richard' died April 22, 1669.
Dictionarry of National Biography (Ma-My, Vol 13):
His health was remarkably good, and he never called a physician, though in his latter years he bacame deaf, in 1662 one of his eyes failed him, and from 1667 he had several attacks of stone. After presiding at a council of Churches in Boston, 13-16 April 1669 Richard was seized with a violent fit of this disorder, and returned to Dorchester, where he died on 22 April 1669.
Margaret Mather
Margaret was born in 1598 in
Lancashire.
Birth Notes
Birthdate: 1598
Birthplace: Lowton, Winnewick, Lancashire, England
Death: England?