THE CONTROVERSY OF MARY BARTHOLOMEW AS WIFE OF WILLIAM BARTHOLOMEW:
In Passengers and Ships, William Bartholomew is listed as traveling here on the Griffin from Alford, Lincolnshire, England to Ipswich, Massachusetts. However, this was the port of departure. Before arriving in Massachusetts, William had visited the Hutchinson home in London, England. This record shows William and "wife Mary." There is no other records regarding this. Mary was his sister and the name of his oldest daughter, who would have been a child at this time.
See the The Griffin Passenger List
***There is no record of a Mary Bartholomew, wife of William, dying in their new homeland or in England. Therefore, perhaps this record was in error?
On September 1, 1635, the General Court "ordered that Mary ____, servant to Mr. Bartholomew (William) shall be whipt[sic] for runing[sic] from her master and serve him 6 weeks after her time was ended." From this we can surmise that she was his indented servant, not his "wife." She may have traveled with William to attend to his household before the rest of his family came there. "It is not known when he [William Bartholomew] went to London and took up residence or when he married Anna Lord, sister of Robert Lord." But we do know that Robert Lord was his neighbor in Ipswich and that they worked together on various town projects. We also know that William entertained Mrs. Anna Hutchinson, at his London home before September 1634. This was no doubt to arrange passage to their new home in the Americas, as the Hutchinson Family arrived on the Griffin with William(George Wells Bartholomew. Record of the Bartholomew Family. Austin, Texas, 1885, 30).
The families of Rev. John Lothrop, William Hutchinson, Rev. Zachariah Symmes, Nathaniel Heaton, Thomas Lynde, and William and Richard Haines made up about one-half of the 100 passengers (Wintrop Journal 1, 134). It is thought that Ann Lord Bartholomew came on another ship with her family? This is one mystery that remains unsolved. George Wells Bartholomew thought that Anna Lord was probably William's only wife, since there is no documentation to the contrary. She is first mentioned in town records in 1653. We know she is the sister of Robert Lord because Robert calls William "my brother" in a letter. William's home was west of Robert Lord's home, in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
GENERATION ONE:
John Bartholomew was born in 1472. He was 14 years old in the year that Columbus petitioned Queen Isabella of Castile to allow him to find a new passage to the Orient. John was 20 when Columbus first made his voyage in 1492. In the American Armoury and Blue Book, 1907 edition, p. 203, it states: "John Bartholomew of Burghursh" as William Bartholomew, the immigrant's grandfather.
There has been a rumor (in the Bartholomew Family) that the Johnsons (family of Mary Johnson-Gen. 5), had an association with the Earl of Lincoln (this seems to have been disproven?), however, there might have been an association with the Bishop of Lincoln. Not in the "relative" sense, but in their possible possession of Henry Burghersh's manor house (Burghursh/Burghersh). Henry, the Bishop, repaired this same house in 1329, along with his Lincolnshire manors (Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1983). Perhaps this later belonged to the Bartholomews? Circumstantial evidence is presented HERE.
GENERATION TWO:
1.John Bartholomew was born about 1500 in Warborough, Oxfordshire, England. John's birth was one year before Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon (the marriage his father might have helped arrange). John was the owner of Westall Hill Manor in Fulbrooke where his descendants lived for 200 years (see the Manor house in links below). John could be the son of John Bartholomew of Warborough, who was born in 1472. It is not know, at this point, whether the John Bartholomew, envoy to Henry VIII, is the same John Sr. of Warborough, Oxfordshire, England, but it looks likely.
John Bartholomew II married Alice Skutter (Scudder?) Either Alice was his second wife or he married her after their eldest son, John was born (in 1528). Perhaps his first wife died in childbirth? John and Alice were recorded as being married on November 22, 1531 in Warborough, Oxfordshire, England. The LDS records show 1551 and so does The Bartholomew Family, however, this could have been a misread of the records since 3 and 5 can be mistaken in older writing. Given the time period, anything is possible. In 1536, The Church of England was established by Henry VIII. The Catholic Church was very rich and Henry took many of its riches for himself by closing down convents and monasteries. Between 1536 and 1539, most were sold or destroyed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Alice Skutter Bartholomew was thought to have married John Weller on September 29, 1568 (LDS microfiche shows Alice Weller marrying John Bartholomew on November 22, 1531). If there was a first wife her name is unknown to us. This generation remains in controversy.
2. Richard Bartholomew, (brother of John?) of Warborough, left his nephew, John Bartholomew, son of John, as overseer of his estate.
GENERATION THREE:
GENERATION FOUR:
See information about St. Frideswide OR The Metcalfe Family
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***We have proof that Richard and Henry Bartholomew were brothers because of a letter dated November 6, 1646.
GENERATION FIVE:
William Bartholomew II was born in 1602/3 in Burford, Oxfordshire, England. William was a mercer or dealer in silks and woolens in Burford, Oxfordshire, England. William traveled from England to Boston, Massachusetts on September 18, 1634. William married Anna Lord, sister of Robert Lord, before 1653, in Burford, Oxfordshire, England. William died January 18, 1679/80 in Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
In William I's will, he mentions land in Fulbrooke, Oxfordshire, England; called Holloways, which he bought from Thomas Cambry. A friend of William I's was David Hewes alias Lloyd.
Mary's first child was:
Mary's second husband was (2) Jacob Greene of Charlestown, son of John Greene. John Greene was a widower. His first wife was Elizabeth Long. Mary was step-mother to:
| Bartholomew's Cobble was located in Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts. In the 19th century, this land was owned by George Bartholomew whose name has been retained at this site. The cobble (an Old English name for a rock outcropping), is basically a limestone rise overlooking the Housatonic River. From the Cobble and from other parts of this property are wonderful views of the river valley. |
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