Mrs Rachel Talcott

• General Notes
  • DATA: John S.Wurts, MAGNA CHARTA; ; Philadelphia, Brookfield Pub. Co.,1958. Part IV, p. 738. [Had death year] ***REMEMBER TO SUBMIT FURTHER FOR NEXT EDITION***
    
    Notes from Gendex accessed web page (with sources), 12 Dec 1996: http://library.monterey.edu/merrill/family/tylcoat/PERSONS.html
    
    Born after 1583-minor in father's will of 1604.
    
    Essex IGI Rachel Talcott, female, 's', abt 1602, Braintree, John Talcott & Anne Skinner.
    
    Had SVT seen a will of 'Moyses Wall' (second husband of Anne Skinner according to SVT) of 1623, stating Rachel unmarried then?? It is possible that Rachel married in1622 to John Steel or John Lay although there could have been another Rachel we dont Know about.
    
    See Unh Rachael #1372 in. John Lay Unh #1373.
    
    LDS:- Rachel b. 1602 to John / Skinner, Spouse John Steele.
    
    Boyds Marriages (1538 - 1837) Essex:- 1622 TALCOT Rach & Jn Steel Fairstead.
    
    LDS IGI :- 11 children attributed to John Steele & Rachel Talcott between & , Fairstead & Fairfield, Essex.
    
    John Lay may have been Rachel's first marriage - he dying very soon after?
    
    LDS:-
    
    Name: Rachel TALCOTT
    
    Birth Date: About 1602
    
    Birth Place: Braintree, Essex, England
    
    Father: John TALCOTT
    
    Mother: Anne SKINNER
    
    Notes:
    
    Batch 4: 1903565, Source Call
    
    According to "Parker - Talcott - Randolph and Allied Families, Our Tangled Roots and Branches, Vol.I" Published 1990 by Kitty Randolph (Hilton) Oman of 8701 N.E. Pierce Dr., Vancouver, WA 9 8662 :-
    
    "Rachel died 24 Oct 1653, Farmington, CT, USA."
    
    From "Hale, House and Related Families, mainly of the Connecticut river valley" by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, 1952. "To the research of Henry F. Waters we are indebted for a number, of additional details [additional to SVT's book - DJT]., :-
    
    "Rachel d. at Farmington, Conn., 24 Oct 1653- in. at Fairsted, Essex, 10 Oct 1622, John Steele, who d. at Farmington, 27 Feb 1664/5, son of Richard Steele of Fairsted. They came to New England in 1632 and settled in Cambridge, Mass. John Steele removed to Hartford in 1635, and in 1636 was one of the eight men commissioned by the General Court of Massachusetts to govern Connecticut. He was the first Town Clerk of Hartford from 1639, and before removal to Farmington was Town Clerk there from 1645 until his death. He had settled in Farmington by 1652. He served as Deputy in the General Court at sixty-six regular and special sessions and at twenty-seven adjourned sessions, between 1638 and 1659. He md. (2) 25 Nov 1655, Mercy (Rusco) Seymour." [For full account of the career and children of John Steele, see F.F.Staff, Goodwin and Morgan Ancestral lines (1915), 1:239-53].
    
    R.Bingham:-
    
    Name: Rachel Talcott - 34
    
    Birth Date: About 1602
    
    Birth Place: Braintree, Essex, England
    
    Death Date: 24 Oct 1653
    
    Death Place: Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut
    
    Ref Number: 45ZK-10
    
    Father: John Talcott - 48 (1562-1604)
    
    Mother: Anne Skinner - 49 (1570-1637)
    
    Spouse: John Steele - 33
    
    Marriage Date: 10 Oct 1622
    
    Marriage Place: England
    
    Children: John - 39; Samuel - 40; Daniel - 35; Rachel - 36; Lydia - 41; Mary - 42; Hannah - 37; Sarah - 14; Daniel - 38
    
    Notes: Lewis2. From Fisher: Rachel Married John Steele, in Braintree, before his emigration to New England.
    
    Susan Taylor :- 12. Rachel/4 TALCOTT87 (John3, John2, Johnl); born after 1595 in Braintree, Essex Co., England (Calculated from the date of her grandfather William SKINNER's will (1616) as still being a minor);88 married John STEELE, son of (--?--) STEELE, 10 Oct 1622 in Fairsted, England; 89,90 died 1653 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT.91,92
    
    She was mentioned in 1604 in the will of her father.93 She was mentioned on 14 Aug 1616 in the will of her grandfather William Skinner.94 She was mentioned on 2 Mar 1617 in the will of her grandmother Margery Skinner.95 She was mentioned on 16 Sep 1623 in the will of her step-father Moses Wall.96
    
    87. Barbour, Families of Early Hartford, p. 592. 88. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England II, p. 1205.
    
    89. Torrey, NEMarriages, p. 705.
    
    90. Barbour, Families of Early Hartford, p. 577. 9 1. Torrey, NEMarriages, p. 705.
    
    92. Barbour, Families of Early Hartford, p. 577. 93. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England II, p. 1125.
    
    94. ibid, p. 1205.
    

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