Descendents of John Gatchell (about 1615-after 1686)
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Descendents of John Gatchell (about 1615-after 1686)
| Malcolm Crystal (View posts) | Posted: 17 Dec 2004 1:59AM GMT |
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Surnames: Gatchell, Churchman, Wilcox
John Gatchell and his brother, Samuel, were the original Gatchell settlers in America, travelling aboard the ship Hopewell together and landing in Massachusetts in 1635. John settled in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and Samuel settled in nearby Salisbury.
John married Wiburrough (various spellings of her name can be found), a midwife. One of John and Wiburrough's sons, Jeremiah (about 1648-1720), moved to Philadelphia as did one of Jeremiah's sons, Elisha (about 1684-1754), and Jeremiah's daughter, Lydia (1693-1713). The mother of these was Jeremiah's wife, Elizabeth Boude, originally of Boston. (By the way, Elizabeth's father, Joseph Boude, innkeeper of Marblehead, was 7g grandfather of Lady Di. Also, for what it's worth, "Boude" rhymes with "loud").
Elisha Gatchell married Rachel Wilcox in Philadelphia in 1706 and settled in East Nottingham, a town then in Chester County, Pennsylvania. (After Mason and Dixon completed their survey of the line separating Pennsylvania from Maryland, most of the land of the Nottingham Lots that William Penn had granted to a group of Quakers in 1701 were determined to lie south of the famous line, and were therefore in Cecil County, Maryland.).
Good information on the Notthingham Lots as well as this line of Gatchells and other families that settled there in the eighteenth century can be found at the Churchman site (http://www.churchman.org/).
John Churchman (about 1665-1724) was one of the original lot-holders in Nottingham. His granddaughter, Sarah Churchman (1758-1822) married David Gatchell, Sr. (1751-1808). Their twelve children were all born in East Notthingham, but they and many of their children left Pennylvania, as did many other Quakers, and settled in eastern Ohio, especially Harrison County.
If you are searching for an ancestor from the eighteenth or nineteenth century and have run into difficulty, you may want to consider migration patterns of the period and look for others with the same surname.
I have more on some of these people, such as the Gatchells who settled in Marblehead in the 17th century, for example, who were a rowdy bunch, appearing in court records with charming frequency.
Malcolm
John married Wiburrough (various spellings of her name can be found), a midwife. One of John and Wiburrough's sons, Jeremiah (about 1648-1720), moved to Philadelphia as did one of Jeremiah's sons, Elisha (about 1684-1754), and Jeremiah's daughter, Lydia (1693-1713). The mother of these was Jeremiah's wife, Elizabeth Boude, originally of Boston. (By the way, Elizabeth's father, Joseph Boude, innkeeper of Marblehead, was 7g grandfather of Lady Di. Also, for what it's worth, "Boude" rhymes with "loud").
Elisha Gatchell married Rachel Wilcox in Philadelphia in 1706 and settled in East Nottingham, a town then in Chester County, Pennsylvania. (After Mason and Dixon completed their survey of the line separating Pennsylvania from Maryland, most of the land of the Nottingham Lots that William Penn had granted to a group of Quakers in 1701 were determined to lie south of the famous line, and were therefore in Cecil County, Maryland.).
Good information on the Notthingham Lots as well as this line of Gatchells and other families that settled there in the eighteenth century can be found at the Churchman site (http://www.churchman.org/).
John Churchman (about 1665-1724) was one of the original lot-holders in Nottingham. His granddaughter, Sarah Churchman (1758-1822) married David Gatchell, Sr. (1751-1808). Their twelve children were all born in East Notthingham, but they and many of their children left Pennylvania, as did many other Quakers, and settled in eastern Ohio, especially Harrison County.
If you are searching for an ancestor from the eighteenth or nineteenth century and have run into difficulty, you may want to consider migration patterns of the period and look for others with the same surname.
I have more on some of these people, such as the Gatchells who settled in Marblehead in the 17th century, for example, who were a rowdy bunch, appearing in court records with charming frequency.
Malcolm