BIRDSEYE, Margaret

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• Name	BIRDSEYE, Margaret
  Birth	5 Jun 1605	Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
  Christening	5 Jun 1605	Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Jul 1661
  Death	Aft 6 Jul 1661	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
  WAC	9 Nov 1896	LOGAN
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  Person ID	I30694	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Family	WILCOXSON, William ,   b. 1608, St Albans, Hertsfordshire, England St Albans, Hertsfordshire, Englandd. 28 Nov 1652, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (Age 44 years)
  Children	1. WILCOXSON, Sarah ,   b. 26 Oct 1648, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial Americad. 24 Nov 1691, Killingsworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States (Age 43 years)
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  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  1. William Wilcoxson (1)(2) (3)(4) (photo) was born in 1601 in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England. He died in 1652 in Stratford, Fairfield Co., CT. He has reference number 1. The first specific allusion to William Wilcoxson in either English or American records, is to be found in Hotten's "Original Lists of persons emigrating to America prior to 1700". There we find that William Wilcoxson, age 34, together with his wife Margaret, age 24, and their infant son John, age 2, sailed from London on the ship, Planter, April 5, 1635. Besides the Wilcoxson family, the Planter's list included the families of John Tuthill, Thomas Olney, George Giddings and William Beardsley, as well as several single persons, including Richard and Charles Harvey, William Felloe, Thomas Savage, Michael Willinson, Francis Peabody, Francis Baker, Thomas Greene and a few others. The vessel arrived at Boston, May 26th of the same year and we have the word of "Orcutt, "History of Stratford and Bridgeport", that his first American home was at Concord, MA. Since he appeared at Stratford, CT. in the year 1639 he could not have lived for more than four years there. At the very beginning of its settlement, Stratford was called Pequennocke, then changed to Cupheag Plantation and then to Stratford. The earliest map of Stratford (as it was in 1639) shows seventeen families living there. This map shows William Wilcoxson's lot in the central part of the "town". On one side of it was the lot of William Beardsley and on the other that of John Peat. Across the street lived widow Elizabeth Curtis, Francis Nichols, Thomas Fairchild and Arthur Bostwick. Further down the street lived Richard Harvey, who, with William Beardsley had come over in the Planter with William Wilcoxson. William Wilcoxson was selected to serve his town as Deputy in the Connecticut Assembly and was on intimate terms with Governors Winthrop and Bulkley. William Wilcoxson died early in the year 1652. This we know from the fact that there is record of the inventory of his will on June 16th, 1652. Margaret remarried in 1664 to William Hayden of Windsor, CT, later removed to Killingworth (now Clinton, CT) . The name of this line was originally Wilcoxson, but the last syllable was generally dropped about the middle of the eighteenth century. From "Abner Wilcox & Lucy Eliza Hart Wilcox" the fact that just because the passengers of the Planter embarked with a blanket certificate from the minister of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, there is no reason to believe that William lived there. The records of the shire do not contain his name, and he was more likely from Derbyshire, the town of Biggin. If so, his father could have been the William Wilcoxson who married Anne Howdische 2/8/1575. Since William was a linen weaver, and Biggin was an area where flax was grown and woven into cloth, there is credibility to this theory.He was married to Margaret Birdseye in England. Margaret Birdseye (5) was born in 1611 in England. William Wilcoxson and Margaret Birdseye had the following children: child+2 i. John Wilcoxson. child+3 ii. Joseph Wilcoxson. child+4 iii. Timothy Wilcoxson. child+5 iv. Samuel Wilcoxson. child+6 v. Elizabeth Wilcoxson. child+7 vi. Hannah Wilcoxson. child+8 vii. Sarah Wilcoxson. child+9 viii. Obadiah Wilcoxson. child+10 ix. Phoebe Wilcoxson.