NEHGR 60:53, 1984, Neil D. Thompson gives the ancestral home of John
Maynard as co Cambridge, England. In spite of giving a source for about
every other statement made in the article, there is no source that I see
for why the author believed that John was from Cambridge. (The article
covers the immigrant and his family in America, no English records are
referred to.)
Top of Page The Immigrant John Maynard
and his Story
Born: In England, bef 1610, based on
estimated birth of oldest child.
Immigration: By 1638, probably with
first wife and at least John, eldest son.
Residences: Sudbury by 1638, died there
Dec 10. 1672. He was among the founders of Marlborough, Mass in 1656, but
I'm not sure that he actually established residence there, or if his son,
John Maynard, Jr., took up residence there and John, Sr. actually stayed
in Sudbury.
Spouses:
1) In England, name/identity unknown, mother of first child, John
Maynard, Jr. 2) In Sudbury, Mary ______, the widow of Thomas Axtell, md June
16, 1646, who had the rest of his children. She also had children with
Thomas Axtell, so this unknown lady is the matriarch to two American families.
Meet some of the Notable Maynards,
including Edward Maynard, who revolutionized dentistry and then went on
to make revolutionary inventions in regard to firearms!
TAG 60:53, 1984 gives the family and sources of information on the
first generation of this family. The article is named "Lydia Maynard, Wife
of Joseph Moore of Sudbury, Mass" because it does dwell on material about
her, but this article covers the whole family. This article presents a
persuasive argument that Lydia, wife of Joseph Moore, was a daughter of
John Maynard; and not a daughter of the second wife of John from a previous
marriage of hers.
Note there was another John Maynard in Duxbury, Mass about the same
time our John was in Sudbury. They were two different men, no known relationship.
See an essay showing that Mary, second wife of John Maynard of Sudbury,
was NOT Mary Starr: Axtell
Genealogy--A Myth Put To Rest. Interestingly, this article/essay, dated
1988, four years after the above cited article on Lydia (Maynard) Moore,
says that Lydia was the daughter of the second wife of John Maynard from
a previous marriage of hers and that she was an Axtell. Her identity as
a daughter of John was persusasively given in TAG 60:53, 1984.
