Notes |
- ***CAUTION: THIS ELIZABETH REPRESENTS MRS ELIZABETH KNIGHT, ***MOTHER OF ELIZABETH KNIGHT who married Israel Stoughton. She married second to _______? Knight.
This woman had been incorrectly made 2nd wife of Thomas Stoughton in error which was based on errors from Miner descent cited below that the "Puritan Migration Project" warns against.
There were 2 different Elizabeths.
The 2nd wife of Rev. Thomas Stoughton whose maiden name is not known, and Mrs. Elizabeth Knight, the mother of ELizabeth Knight who md. Israel Stoughton, the son of the reverend.
This Mrs. Elizabeth Knight was the mother-in-law of Israel Stoughton, not his stepmother.
Wiki-tree warns by stating:
"The first wife of Rev. Thomas Stoughton was named Katherine. Her last name is unknown.
Katherine died in 1603 and his second wife was Elizabeth [also unknown].
Some Internet genealogies, such as the Miner Descent website,[1] give her last name as Montpesson or Evelyn.
Neither name is supported by records or recognized scholarship.
Two sons of Thomas (Thomas and Israel) are profiled in The Great Migration Begins, where Robert Charles Anderson indicates Katherine's last name as being unknown.
There is also no last name for her in the 2012 article in NEHGR on "The Exhurst ancestry of the Stoughton siblings" (see pedigree diagram from the article, at AmericanAncestors website).
Although she did not migrate herself, she is the mother of two emigrants to New England, and this profile is protected by the WikiTree Puritan Great Migration project because of the history of confusion about her birth name.
" This source shares the tradition that "the father" accompanied the immigrants to New England but his will and death records make it clear that Thomas Stoughton died in 1622.
*************************************************
A different William Knight was in America and md. to a different Elizabeth.
*************************************************
Let's use primary sources and professionally researched sources such as "the Great Migration Project."
*************************************************
Much about both Elizabeth's has been completely merged away and had so many name changes she became unrecognizable.
*************************************************
Rev. Thomas Stoughton died in 1622 as documented by his will and a very touching letter that expressed much of his feelings.
***WARNING ABOUT THE FOLLOWING SITE**************
Fortunately, WikiTree for Elizabeth who md. Thomas Stoughton is, now protected by the "Puritan Great Migration Project"
WARNS of the errors in this source this contributor cited. It is mixing data for at least 3 different families I know of.
"Rev. Thomas Stoughton," January 23, 2012, https://minerdescent.com/2012/01/23/thomas-stoughton/
**************************************************
According to information in Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Windsor, his second wife, Elizabeth who he married after the death of his first wife, Katherine, in 1603, remarried in 1610 to William Knight of Lincoln.
If this is correct, Rev.Thomas Stoughton must have died before 1610.
Thomas’ son Israel assumed the place of an elder half brother to his stepmother’s five Knight children, Elizabeth, William, John, Mary , and Ursula.
William Knight died in 1630, leaving a will dated 21 Mar 1629/30 in which he appointed as the executor, Israel Stoughton, his son-in-law.
By that time, Israel Stoughton had married William Knight’s daughter, Elizabeth...
...Israel’s wife Elizabeth Knight [was born in] 1606 in Rotherlite, England.
Elizabeth died 6 Aug 1681 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
She was an aunt of collegiate benefactor Elihu Yale.
Israel’s mother, Katherine Montpesson, died two months after Israel’s birth in Coggeshall, Essex, England, where he was baptized 18 Feb 1602/03.
Consequently, Israel was raised by his stepmother, Elizabeth, who, after the death of Israel’s father, became the wife of William Knight of Lincoln, England.
Israel assumed the place of an elder half brother to his stepmother’s five Knight children, Elizabeth, William, John, Mary , and Ursula. (TAG 29 198 201)
Ursula Knight (1624–1698) married David Yale (1613–1690). Their son Elihu Yale (April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721) was a Welsh merchant and philanthropist, governor of the East India Company, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was named Yale College in his honor.
After William Knight’s death, these members of the family of Elizabeth Knight, wife of Israel, also came to New England, including her mother, the widow Elizabeth Knight, her brother, Rev. William Knight, and two other sisters, Mary, wife of Thomas Clark and Ursula, wife of David Yale, accounting for all of the children mentioned in the will except John.
***CAUTION: THIS ELIZABETH REPRESENTS MRS ELIZABETH KNIGHT, ***MOTHER OF ELIZABETH KNIGHT who married Israel Stoughton. She married second to _______? Knight.
This woman had been incorrectly made 2nd wife of Thomas Stoughton in error which was based on errors from Miner descent cited below that the "Puritan Migration Project" warns against.
There were 2 different Elizabeths.
The 2nd wife of Rev. Thomas Stoughton whose maiden name is not known, and Mrs. Elizabeth Knight, the mother of ELizabeth Knight who md. Israel Stoughton, the son of the reverend.
This Mrs. Elizabeth Knight was the mother-in-law of Israel Stoughton, not his stepmother.
Wiki-tree warns by stating:
"The first wife of Rev. Thomas Stoughton was named Katherine. Her last name is unknown.
Katherine died in 1603 and his second wife was Elizabeth [also unknown].
Some Internet genealogies, such as the Miner Descent website,[1] give her last name as Montpesson or Evelyn.
Neither name is supported by records or recognized scholarship.
Two sons of Thomas (Thomas and Israel) are profiled in The Great Migration Begins, where Robert Charles Anderson indicates Katherine's last name as being unknown.
There is also no last name for her in the 2012 article in NEHGR on "The Exhurst ancestry of the Stoughton siblings" (see pedigree diagram from the article, at AmericanAncestors website).
Although she did not migrate herself, she is the mother of two emigrants to New England, and this profile is protected by the WikiTree Puritan Great Migration project because of the history of confusion about her birth name.
" This source shares the tradition that "the father" accompanied the immigrants to New England but his will and death records make it clear that Thomas Stoughton died in 1622.
*************************************************
A different William Knight was in America and md. to a different Elizabeth.
*************************************************
Let's use primary sources and professionally researched sources such as "the Great Migration Project."
*************************************************
Much about both Elizabeth's has been completely merged away and had so many name changes she became unrecognizable.
*************************************************
Rev. Thomas Stoughton died in 1622 as documented by his will and a very touching letter that expressed much of his feelings.
***WARNING ABOUT THE FOLLOWING SITE**************
Fortunately, WikiTree for Elizabeth who md. Thomas Stoughton is, now protected by the "Puritan Great Migration Project"
WARNS of the errors in this source this contributor cited. It is mixing data for at least 3 different families I know of.
"Rev. Thomas Stoughton," January 23, 2012, https://minerdescent.com/2012/01/23/thomas-stoughton/
**************************************************
According to information in Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Windsor, his second wife, Elizabeth who he married after the death of his first wife, Katherine, in 1603, remarried in 1610 to William Knight of Lincoln.
If this is correct, Rev.Thomas Stoughton must have died before 1610.
Thomas’ son Israel assumed the place of an elder half brother to his stepmother’s five Knight children, Elizabeth, William, John, Mary , and Ursula.
William Knight died in 1630, leaving a will dated 21 Mar 1629/30 in which he appointed as the executor, Israel Stoughton, his son-in-law.
By that time, Israel Stoughton had married William Knight’s daughter, Elizabeth...
...Israel’s wife Elizabeth Knight [was born in] 1606 in Rotherlite, England.
Elizabeth died 6 Aug 1681 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
She was an aunt of collegiate benefactor Elihu Yale.
Israel’s mother, Katherine Montpesson, died two months after Israel’s birth in Coggeshall, Essex, England, where he was baptized 18 Feb 1602/03.
Consequently, Israel was raised by his stepmother, Elizabeth, who, after the death of Israel’s father, became the wife of William Knight of Lincoln, England.
Israel assumed the place of an elder half brother to his stepmother’s five Knight children, Elizabeth, William, John, Mary , and Ursula. (TAG 29 198 201)
Ursula Knight (1624–1698) married David Yale (1613–1690). Their son Elihu Yale (April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721) was a Welsh merchant and philanthropist, governor of the East India Company, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was named Yale College in his honor.
After William Knight’s death, these members of the family of Elizabeth Knight, wife of Israel, also came to New England, including her mother, the widow Elizabeth Knight, her brother, Rev. William Knight, and two other sisters, Mary, wife of Thomas Clark and Ursula, wife of David Yale, accounting for all of the children mentioned in the will except John.
|