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Mary Coley

Female 1651 - 1705  (~ 53 years)


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  • Name Mary Coley 
    Christened 23 Nov 1651  Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 1705  of Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3272  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Joseph Lockwood,   b. 6 Aug 1638, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Apr 1717, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married Aft 1689  of Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F413  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • BIOGRAPHY:
      1. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 382/3: "Robert... Married (1)____ Beacham, dau. of Robert, who apparently d. before her father made his will (1689). As he was the only Fairfield Lockwood of suitable age for the marriage, we dar assert that he m. (2) after 1689, Mary (Coley), widow first of Peter Simpson and later of John Stream, Jr., all of Milford, where she was bapt. 23 Nov. 1651. She d. in 1705, and was Mary Lockwood of Fairfield when her estate was administered. (New Haven County Court Rec.)

      2. According to Ordinance Index, parents are Samuel Coley and Ann Pruden.

      3. "Connecticut Ancestry," periodical published by the Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Dec. 2004, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 119-130: "Robert Lockwood of Watertown, Stamford and Fairfield: English Ancestry, New England Connections and Children's Marriages," by Robert Charles Anderson. Note that the following is a partial transcript of the full transcript in the notes of Robert Lockwood; the full article is well written by one of the very best modern genealogists and should be consulted in conjunction with the following notes:
      "Joseph Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 August 1638. He m. (1) by an unknown date Beacham, daughter of Robert Beacham.(60) He possibly m. (2) after 1689 Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream, widow of Peter Simpson and John Stream.(61)
      Footnotes:
      60. In his will of 24 November 1689, "Rob[er]t Beacham of Maxemas Farms in Fairfeild" included bequests to "my grandchild Robert Lockwood," "my grandchild Susana Lockwood," "my other two grandchildren John and Sarah Lockwood," and made "my loving son-in-law Joseph Lockwood" sole executor [Fairfield Probate Records 4:36].
      61. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:383."4. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
      "Robert Lockwood...
      Children...
      iii. Joseph Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 August 1638 [NEHGR 7:160; WaVR 1:5]; m. (1) by an unknown date ___ Beacham, daughter of Robert Beacham (in his will of 24 November 1689, "Rob[er]t Beacham of Maxemas Farms in Fairfeild" included bequests to "my grandchild Robert Lockwood," "my grandchild Susana Lockwood," "my other two grandchildren John and Sarah Lockwood," and made "my loving son-in-law Joseph Lockwood" sole executor [Fairfield PR 4:36]); possibly m. (2) after 1689 Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream, widow of Peter Simpson and John Stream [FOOF 1:383]...

      4. Not found in the book "Families of Ancient New Haven," by Donald L. Jacobus (New Haven, 1981), 7 vols.

      5. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 27, no. 1 (Sept. 1984), "The Lockwoods of Norwalk, Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., pp. 10-11:
      "Nearly a century ago, in 1889, two misguided compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood produced "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America." Modern genealogists realize that nineteenth century family histories often contain errors, and this genealogy is among the most confused; but it continues to be used as a reliable source. In his "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus put in order the early Lockwoods of that town. In 1978 this compiler undertook a similar task for Stamford Lockwoods with "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c.1625-1693) of Stamford." There remain the Lockwood founders of Norwalk and Greenwich with lines to be set straight...
      ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of England, bp. Combs, co. Suffolk, 18 Jan. 1600/01; d. Fairfield, Connecticut 1658, [Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet"; Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield," hereinafter F.O.O.F., 1:380].
      He m. prob. at Salem or Watertown, Massachusetts ca. 1633 SUSANNAH, prob. NORMAN, dau. of Richard Norman of Salem. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris.
      Children (LOCKWOOD), first six b. Watertown, Massachusetts, [VR], others prob. all b. Connecticut:
      i JONATHAN2 b. 10 Sep. 1634; d. Greenwich, CT 12 May 1688; m. MARY FERRIS; she m. (2) 1696 Thomas Merritt.
      ii DEBORAH b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) WILLIAM WARD; m. (2) JOHN TOPPING.
      iii JOSEPH b. 6 Aug. 1638; d. Fairfield, CT 1717; m. (1) ISABEL? BEACHAM; m. (2) MARY (COLEY) (SIMPSON) STREAM. [His descendants are the only Lockwoods carried on in F.O.O.F., 1:385-387, 715-716 and 2:586-591].
      iv DANIEL b. 21 March 1640; d. Fairfield, CT 1691; m. ABIGAIL SHERWOOD. [See F.O.O.F. 1:383, 387 for his only son, DANIEL, who had but two surviving daughters. The name Lockwood ends there on this line].
      v EPHRAIM b. 1 Dec. 1641; d. Norwalk, CT 1685; m. MERCY ST. JOHN.
      vi GERSHOM b. 6 Sep. 1643; d. Greenwich, CT 1718/9; his three? wives are all being questioned.
      vii JOHN d. 1677 unmarried.
      viii ABIGAIL m. bef. 1681 JOHN BARLOW.
      ix SARAH d. CT 1 March 1650/1.
      x SARAH b. 27 Feb. 1651/2; ?m. ABRAHAM ADAMS.
      xi MARY m. (1) JONATHAN HUSTED; m. (2) JOSEPH KNAPP."

      6. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), pp. 241-43:
      "ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, baptized Combs, co. Suffolk, England 18 January 1600, died Fairfield CT by 11 September 1658, son of EdmundA and AliceA or RuthA (Cooper) Lockwood; married Watertown MA about 1633 (birth 1634) SUSANNA2 NORMAN, born England say 1615, died Greenwich CT 23 December 1660, daughter of Capt. RICHARD1 and (___1) NORMAN, married (2) Greenwich about 1659 (between 11 September 1658 and 23 December 1660) as his second wife Jeffrey1 Ferris, born England say 1614, died Stamford CT 1666, married (1) Watertown before 1634 Mary (___), married (3) Stamford about 1663 (birth 1664) Judith Feake (see Norman Chapter) (Torrey 470 and 263).
      Robert1 came in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 on the "Mary and John", and settled that year in Watertown, made freeman 9 March 1637, and removed to Fairfield in 1646, where he had owned land as early as 1641. On 20 May 1652, he was made freeman of the Connecticut Colony, and May 1657 the Connecticut Court confirmed him and Nehemiah Olmstead to be sergeants of the Fairfield Train Band under Capt. Nathaniel Seeley. He was executor of the estate of Edmund Lockwood, supposedly a brother, in 1635.
      Children, surname LOCKWOOD...
      iii. JOSEPH, born Watertown MA 6 August 1638, died Fairfield CT 1717; married (1) Stamford CT after 1666 (___2), the only child of Robert1 and Isabel1 (___) Beacham), born Ipswich MA say 1642, died 1689; married (2) after 1689 as her third husband Mary2 Coley, born Milford CT 1651, died 1705, daughter of Samuel1 and Ann2 (Prudden) Coley, married (1) there say 1671 Peter1 Simpson, born probably England say 1640, died Milford 1685, married (2) there after 1685 John2 Stream, born there 1657, died there 1689, son of John1 and Martha (Beard) Stream (Torrey 470, 675, 718 and 54)...

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Previously married to Peter Simpson and John Stream, Jr.