Her parents | |
 | John BANCROFT
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 | Elizabeth EATON
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| GOWING |
| Edward PICKERING |
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Data on Hannah Bancroft / Gowing from Alice Pickering Palladini
From Alice Palladini's book
HANNAH'S lineage has been very elusive for many years, as; all records
identified her as HANNAH GOING (Gowing). Several people I had been in touch with
were also stumped on any clues about HANNAH.
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An article written in The Essex County Genealogy Quarterly, TEG, by
Eleanor Tucker, I believe has solved the mystery surrounding HANNAH. The
article, although no certain proof has been found, myself and others feel it is
correct.
HANNAH was HANNAH BANCROFT and not HANNAH Gowing. She married first
Joseph Gowing in Lynn, Ma. (Lynnfield, Ma.) in 1722. Joseph died a few short
years later in 1724 and HANNAH married second EDWARD Pickering and removed to
Mendon,Ma.
Joseph Gowing Adm. was his father Nathanial Gowing, and there isn't any
mention of HANNAH in the probate record. The vital records of Lynn, do have that
a HANNAH Bancroft mar. Joseph Gowing.
I will add here again, thus far, there isn't any absolute proof except
years of research on the linage of HANNAH without finding any clues to her
linage, that she is the same HANNAH Bancroft that mar. Joseph Gowing. However,
I do feel sure enough about this to claim the Bancrofts as our ancestors for
HANNAH'S line.
HANNAH died in Mendon,Ma. 19 Oct. 1764. She is buried in Pine Hill
Cemetery. (Her stone is pictured on pg. 40) The inscription reads:
In Memory of HANNAH
Wife of EDWARD Pickering
She died October 19th 1764
in ye 62nd year of age
The stone is made of slate and is splitting and really weather beaten.
The lettering is still visible. It is located on the path, on the top of the
hill, on the right. Probably in the empty lot beside HANNAH, EDWARD is also
buried?
No records of Pine Hill were kept by the Town of Mendon. Recently in
the summer of 1989, the Mendon His. Comm. did conduct a stone to stone listing
of those buried there. This will be a great help to future researchers but we
will never know all whom were buried there that probably never had a stone or
their stones or markers have been destroyed throughout the years, by the
elements and vandalism. The new listing, however will help to identify those
that can still be identified in case any further damage happens to the stones,
in the future.
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As mention previously, the lineage of HANNAH has been mystifying
researchers for generations.
Since the 1989 article written in TEG mentioned on page 46, of this
book. I received other information that HANNAH was probably HANNAH GOWING
(GOING) the daughter of DANIEL & and his second wife MARY (WILLIAMS) of Beverly,
Ma., who married, May 20, 1698. (The Ist book of Intentions of Marriages, Lynn,
Ma.; pg.77 Essex. Inst. Vol.16)
DANIEL was the son of ROBERT GOING & ELIZABETH BROCK. They had 11
children, amongst these children a dau. was named Hannah. However, this not in
any way prove that his son DANIEL named a dau. Hannah, also. No birth record has
been found for HANNAH, to help identify her parents as DANIEL & MARYS'. However,
no documented proof exist, that EDWARD'S wife was HANNAH Bancroft, either.
MARY WILLIAM'S was the widow of Anthony Williams and the dau. ROBERT &
FREEBORN (WOLFE) SALLOS/ SALLONS/ SALORE of Beverly,Ma.
I had tried to believe that HANNAH was the Bancroft girl who had
married Joseph Gowing and married second EDWARD PICKERING. However, since this
other information has arisen, that suggest differently, I shall just leave
HANNAH'S lineage for now to further research.
Source Ref: Boston Transcript, 1913, #3753: VR'S of Lynn,Ma.: Torrey's New
England Mar., bef. 1700; Family Group Records, of Allen C. Cooke,
Cranston, R.I. ESOG article in TEG, by Eleanor Tucker;Vol. 8&9;
The Gowing Family.
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