Elizabeth Atherton

1628 -

• Name	Elizabeth Atherton
  Christening	28 Sep 1628	Winwick, Lancashire, England
  Married	Abt 1650 (~ 21 years)  [2, 3, 4]
  Timothy Mather, the son of Richard and Catherine (Holt) Mather. He was born in 1628 in Liverpool, England. After Elizabeth's death, on 20 March 1678/79 Timothy, married (2) Elizabeth Weeks. He died on 14 January 1685 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, from from falling from a scaffold in his barn. Issue: 1. Samuel Mather (1651-1728) 2. Nathaniel Mather (1653-1653) 3. Richard Mather (1653-1688) 4. Catherine Mather (1656-c1694) 5. Nathaniel Mather (1658-____) 6. Joseph Mather (1661-c1691) 7. Atherton Mather (1663-____)
  Savage (1860) says their wedding was 20 May 1680, which is clearly wrong. [1]
  Siblings	6 brothers and 6 sisters
  1. Jonathan Atherton,   b. England   2. Elizabeth Atherton,   c. 28 Sep 1628, Winwick, Lancashire, England   3. John Atherton,   c. 26 Dec 1629, Winwick, Lancashire, England d. probably young + 4. Isabel Atherton,   c. 23 Jan 1630, Winwick, Lancashire, England d. 18 Dec 1661, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age ~ 31 years) ▻ Nathaniel Wales,  m. 1653   5. Consider Atherton,   b. England d. 26 Apr 1687   6. Mary Atherton,   b. Abt 1636, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 17 Sep 1692, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 56 years) + 7. Margaret Atherton,   b. 1638, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 17 Jun 1672, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 34 years) ▻ Deacon James Trowbridge,  m. 3 Dec 1659   8. Rest Atherton,   c. 26 May 1639, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 13 Nov 1708, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age ~ 69 years)   9. Increase Atherton,   b. 02 Jan 1641/42, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. Aug 1673, at sea  (Age 31 years)   10. Thankful Atherton,   c. 28 Apr 1644, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 11 Apr 1719, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age ~ 74 years)   11. Rev. Hope Atherton,   c. 30 Aug 1646, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 8 Jun 1677  (Age ~ 30 years)   12. Watching Atherton,   c. 24 Aug 1651, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   13. Patience Atherton,   c. 2 Apr 1654, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 1691  (Age ~ 36 years)
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Edmund Atherton   d. 10 Apr 1613, Winstanley, Lancashire, England   (Grandfather)  Mary Kennion   d. 1672, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   (Mother)
  Person ID, Branch	I19672
  Last Modified	22 May 2019

  
  

  Father	Major Gen. Humphrey Atherton,   b. 1609, Winwick, Lancashire, England d. 17 Sep 1661, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 52 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mary Kennion   d. 1672, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F63	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Elizabeth Atherton(1628 – ) 2Major Gen. Humphrey Atherton(1609 – 1661) 4Edmund Atherton( – 1613) 5Elizabeth 3Mary Kennion( – 1672) 6 7

  
  

• Event Map		Christening - 28 Sep 1628 - Winwick, Lancashire, England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S1026] 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 I, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860). [S36] Drake, Samuel G. "Memoir of the Rev. Cotton Mather, D.D., with a Genealogy of the Family of Mather" , (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume VI, 1852). [S1064] Lawson, Stephen M. Ancestry of Stephen Lawson - Wales, (Online http://sml.simplenet.com/ancestries/wales.html. Printout dated 22 March 1998). [S12] Brown, John C. J., "The Atherton Family in England" , (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume XXXV, January 1881).