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Rebecca Knight

Female 1643 - 1688  (44 years)


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  • Name Rebecca Knight 
    Relationshipwith Robert Alan Roy
    Birth 3 Mar 1643  Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 5, 9
    Death 8 Jan 1688  Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    • She died in childbirth. [8]
    Siblings 7 Siblings 
    Person ID I18336 
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2021 

    Father Richard Knight,   b. About 1602, Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Aug 1683, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Agnes Coffey   d. 22 Mar 1679, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1359  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Abiel Somerby   d. 27 Dec 1671, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 13 Nov 1661  Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12
    Marriage Record of Rebecca Knight and Abiel Somerby
    Marriage Record of Rebecca Knight and Abiel Somerby
    Age at Marriage She : 18 years and 8 months - He : ??. 
    Family ID F8280  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2021 

    Family 2 John Tompkins,   b. 16 Feb 1642, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 May 1722, Eastchester, Westchester County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 29 Dec 1667  Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Age at Marriage She : 24 years and 9 months - He : 25 years and 10 months. 
    Children From 1671 to 1687  [2
    Family ID F8283  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Birth: Coffin (1845) gives her birth date as 7 March 1643, and Savage (1891) follows his lead. [3, 11]

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 3 Mar 1643 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 13 Nov 1661 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 29 Dec 1667 - Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 8 Jan 1688 - Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1161] Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, volume IV (I-L), (Boston: New England Historic Genealogy Society, 2005).

    2. [S110] Ancestry Family Trees, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Use with Caution.

    3. [S638] Coffin, Joshua. A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury, (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845).

    4. [S652] Davis, Walter Goodwin. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis volume II, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995).

    5. [S640] Essex Institute. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 volume I, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911).

    6. [S641] Essex Institute. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 volume II, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911).

    7. [S786] Essex Institute. Vital records of Newburyport, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, volume 2 Marriages & Deaths, (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1911).

    8. [S1787] Essex Institute. Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 Volume 6 - Deaths, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1925).

    9. [S645] Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton volume II, Reprint 1902, (Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnham, 1902).

    10. [S188] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Marriage Record of Rebecca Knight and Abiel Somerby.

    11. [S808] Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register, volume III, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1861).

    12. [S91] Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriage Prior to 1700, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985).