Robert and Elizabeth (Stalham) Williams

We are not Descendants - This Info Left here for others to use.
Removed from our ancestry after TAG 74:292-298, 1999 proved wife of Richard Cutter could not be daughter of Robert Williams

Robert and Elizabeth
(Stalham) Williams

Origins
The Immigrant
Notable Kin
Sources and Resources
Notes, Questions, Errata
Subsequent Generations
Children and Grandchildren
Kansas Pioneers Lineage
Links

Origins

Robert Williams was baptized in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England on Dec 11, 1608, to Stephen and Margaret (Cooke) Williams. Margaret Cooke was the daughter of Nicholas Cooke. (The Dolman Compendium, 1940, Paul H. Dolman)

See the Norfolk Co, England Heritage Page.

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The Immigrant

Born: December 11, 1608, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.

Immigration: 1637 on the John and Dorothy or the Rose (combined passenger list). With wife Elizabeth and four children: Samuel, John, Elizabeth, and Debra, and two servants: Mary Williams aged 18 years and Anne Williams, aged 15 years. Robert was 28 years old.

Occupation: Cordwainer (shoemaker, worker of leather)

Residence: Lived in Roxbury, Mass, near Boston.

Marriages:

1. Abt 1626, Elizabeth, possibly Stalham, mother to all of his children. She died July 28, 1674 in Roxbury, aged 77.

2. Nov 3, 1675, Margaret, widow of John Fearing of Hingham. Robert would have been 67.

3. After 1676, Martha, possibly Story or Strong.

Died: Sept. 1, 1693, in Roxbury, Mass. Age 86.

Will: Robert's will was dated Nov. 26, 1685 and proved Sept. 29, 1693. In it he mentions his three sons Samuel, Isaac, and Stephen, his grandson Isaac, his grand child Elizabeth Robinson, and his brother Nicholas Williams.

Biography of Robert and Elizabeth (Stalham) Williams at the Michael Roman page

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Notable Kin

Notable descendants of Robert and Elizabeth Williams include:

William Williams, signer of the Declaration of Independence
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Princess Diana connections: those Williams descended from Samuel and Theoda (Parke) Williams and Isaac and Martha (Parke) Williams are cousins to Princess Diana and the two princes of England. Theoda Parke's grandparents, Robert and Martha (Chaplin) Parke, are direct ancestors of Princess Diana.
Napoleon connection
General McClelland of the Civil War
Eli Whitney - inventor of the cotton gin and progenitor of the industrial revolution.
Louisa May Alcott - Author

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Sources and Resources

Robert Williams of Roxbury 1607-1693 - Harrison Williams, 1934 (pgs.13-46)

Robert Williams of Roxbury, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants - Frederick Lewis Weiss, 1945

"The American Genealogist" TAG 74:292-298, 1999 - Elizabeth, wife of Richard Cutter - Presents evidence that age of wife of Richard Cutter prevents her from being the daughter of Robert Williams.

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Notes, Questions and Errata

Who were the two servants on the ship with Robert's family: Mary Williams aged 18 years and Anne Williams, aged 15 years?

What evidence points to the first wife of Robert being the daughter of John Stahlam?

Elizabeth Williams = Richard Cutter? - I note that Gary Boyd Roberts lists Elizabeth, daughter of Robert, with a question mark beside her name when showing her as the spouse of Richard Cutter in various kinships they are in. Torrey also shows a question mark beside her name. That marriage appears not to be proven.

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Subsequent Generations

John Williams family, their interesting genealogical connections, and the Deerfield Indian Raid

See the Williams Connection to an interesting network of relationships involving Napoleon, Daniel Webster, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, General Armistead - Confederate General killed at Gettysburg, and the wife of President Franklin Pierce.

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Children and Grandchildren of the Immigrant:

Eight Children, at least 44 grandchildren. Second generation surnames are Williams, Turner, Wood.

1 Robert Williams 1608 - 1693

.. +Elizabeth Stalham 1597 - 1674

............2 Elizabeth (1629 -

[NOT Richard Cutter]

........... 2 Deborah Williams 1630 - 1676

............... +John Turner 1630 -

........... 2 Samuel Williams 1633 - 1698

............... +Theoda Parke 1637 - 1718

........................ 3 Elizabeth Williams 1655 - 1655

........................ 3 Samuel Williams 1656 - 1735

............................ +Sarah May 1659 - 1712

........................ 3 Martha (1) Williams 1657 - 1661

........................ 3 Elizabeth Williams 1660 - 1707

............................ +Stephen Paine 1660 -

........................ 3 Theoda Williams 1662 - 1679

........................ 3 John Williams 1664 - 1729

............................ +Eunice Mather 1664 - 1704

........................ *2nd Wife of John Williams:

............................ +Abigail Allyn 1672 - 1734

........................ 3 Ebenezer Williams 1666 - 1747

............................ +Mary Wheeler 1666 -

........................ 3 Deborah Williams 1668 - 1743

............................ +Joseph Warren 1668 -

........................ 3 Martha Williams 1671 - 1751

............................ +Jonathan Hunt 1671 -

........................ 3 Abigail Williams 1674 - 1765

............................ +Experience Porter 1676 - 1750

........................ 3 Parke Williams 1677 - 1746

............................ +Priscilla Payson 1677 -

........... 2 John Williams 1635 - 1658

........... 2 Isaac Williams 1638 - 1708

............... +Martha Parke 1642 - 1675

........................ 3 Isaac (1) Williams 1660 - 1661

........................ 3 Isaac Williams II 1661 - 1739

............................ +Elizabeth Hyde 1659 - 1699

........................ 3 Martha Williams 1663 - 1701

............................ +John Hunt 1663 -

........................ 3 William Williams 1665 - 1741

............................ +Elizabeth Cotton 1665 - 1698

........................ *2nd Wife of William Williams:

............................ +Christian Stoddard 1676 - 1764

........................ 3 John Williams 1667 - 1702

............................ +Martha Wheeler 1667 -

........................ 3 Eleazer Williams 1669 - 1725

............................ +Mary Hyde 1674 - 1762

........................ 3 Elizabeth Williams 1671 - 1743

............................ +Jonathan Hyde 1671 -

........................ 3 Hannah Williams 1671 - 1743

............................ +John Hyde 1671 -

........................ 3 Thomas Williams 1673 -

........... *2nd Wife of Isaac Williams:

............... +Judith Hunt 1648 - 1724

........................ 3 Peter Williams 1680 - 1732

........................ 3 Sarah Williams 1688 - 1759

............................ +James Grey 1688 -

........................ *2nd Husband of Sarah Williams:

............................ +John Marsh 1688 -

........................ 3 Mary Williams 1688 - 1749

............................ +Joseph Hyde 1671 -

........................ 3 Ephraim Williams 1691 - 1754

............................ +Elizabeth Jackson 1680 - 1718

........................ *2nd Wife of Ephraim Williams:

............................ +Abigail Jones 1694 - 1784

........... 2 Stephen Williams 1640 - 1720

............... +Sarah Wise 1647 - 1728

........................ 3 Sarah Williams 1667 -

........................ 3 Mary Williams 1669 -

............................ +Samuel Choate 1669 -

........................ *2nd Husband of Mary Williams:

............................ +Samuel Story 1669 -

........................ 3 Elizabeth Williams 1672 - 1740

........................ 3 Bethia Williams 1676 - 1721

............................ +Eleazer Rice 1676 -

........................ 3 Stephen Williams 1678 - 1768

............................ +Mary Capen 1679 -

........................ 3 Robert Williams 1680 - 1680

........................ 3 Joseph Williams 1682 - 1720

............................ +Abigail Davis 1687 - 1771

........................ 3 John Williams 1684 -

........................ 3 Henry Williams 1686 - 1686

........................ 3 Grace Williams 1688 - 1749

............................ +John Metcalf 1688 -

........................ 3 Catherine Williams 1690 - 1707

........................ 3 Thomas Williams 1694 - 1694

........... 2 Mary Williams 1642 -

............... +Nicholas Wood 1642 -

........................ 3 [1] Bethiah Wood 1661 - 1732

............................ +[2] Ephraim Cutter 1651 -

........... 2 Thomas Williams 1644 -

*2nd Wife of Robert Williams:

.. +Margaret 1620 - 1675

*3rd Wife of Robert Williams:

.. +Martha Story or Strong 1613 - 1704

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The Williams Line of Descent to the Kansas Pioneers

We descendants of the Kansas Pioneers are not descended from Robert Williams. I gathered this material when I was under the impression that Elizabeth, wife of Richard Cutter, was his daughter.

"The American Genealogist" TAG 74:292-298, 1999 - Elizabeth, wife of Richard Cutter - Presents evidence that age of wife of Richard Cutter prevents her from being the daughter of Robert Williams.

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