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From: "Mary Strovink Daukas" <>
Subject: [GM-L] Thanks re Nowell vs Norwell
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 11:49:01 -0800

Thank you Jan and Martha for your searches.
I do appreciate your help very much. You are
both good detectives.

I will follow up on the alternate name search and
surely solve the mystery of the unk lady in my familie's
grave.

Your info tallies with the following IGI search on the LDS site:

Norwell family in Charleston MA during 1600's Mary NORWELL
Sex: F
Birth: Abt. 1653 Charleston, Massachusetts
Parents:
Source Information:
Film Number: 1985581
Page Number:
Reference Number:

>Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:00:29 EDT
>From:
>To:
>Subject: [GM-L] Nowell not Norwell

>> Subj:nowell not Norwell
>> Date:8/9/01 4:04:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time
>> From: (Martha Day)
>> To:
>> In looking up Norwell I had found Nowell instead. Do
>>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Bingo!!! Charles Henry Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts" says
> this:
>NOWELL, NOELL
> Increase, a member of the Mass. Bay Co. in England came in the
> fleet
>with Winthrop in 1630. Settled at Charlestown. Joined in the first
>church organization, with wife Parnell, in July 1630, and in the
>re-organization at Charlestown in 1632. Was elected ruling elder 27
>July 1630; Asst., deputy, secretary of the Colony, town officer.
>Wife Parnell was dau. of Thomas Grey, mariner, of Harwich, Eng., by
>his first wife, Katherine, dau. of Robert Myles, of Sutton. She d.
>March 25, 1687, age 84. Children: Increase, b. 19 (9), bapt. 21 (9)
>1630, d. 6 (1) 1632 Abigail, b. 17 (2) bapt. 3 (4) 1632, d. 6 (1)
>1634 Samuel, bapt. 22 (9) 1634 Eliezer b. and d. 1636 Mehitabel,
>bapt. 4 (12) 1637-8 Increase, bapt. 23 (3) 1640 Mary, b. 26 (3) 1643
>Alexander
> Mary, adm. chh Charlestown, 7 (12) 1646, may be error of record
> for
>baptism.
> He d. Nov. 1, 1655. Will dated 23 (4), probated 25 (10) 1655,
> beq. to
>wife Parnell, mother Coitmore, sons Increase, Alexander and Samuel,
>daus. Mehitabel and Mary and to personal friends. The widow d. March
>25, 1687. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jan Weber Linden, CA
>95236
>
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