JOHN NEEDHAM

(ca. 1580-before 1660) - Hampstead, Middlesex and London, England

(First Generation - Needham Family)

FATHER	MOTHER
NOT KNOWN	NOT KNOWN

DEATH	John died before 12 April 1660.
BURIAL	He was buried in St. Martin's, Ludgate, London, England.
RESIDENCES	John was "of Hampstead and London".
MARRIAGE #1	John first married Elizabeth BARNES, daughter of Thomas BARNES & Margaret NEEDHAM. Elizabeth died before 1606.
MARRIAGE #2	By 1606 John second married Mary HOWE, "of Hampstead, county of Middlesex, England^[1]" in St. Martin's, Ludgate, London, England. Mary died before 30 March 1661. Mary's will was dated 12 April 1660^[2]. In it, "...'Mary Needham bequeathed 200 pounds lawful money to her son Edmund Needham, resident in New England, and if he were not living, to his son Daniel NeedhamŠ' Also mentioned were her sons John Needham, Benjamin Needham, her daughters Katherine Needham, Elizabeth Needham and Anne Cole, and her sons-in-law Thomas Barnes and John Brent (called John Briant in her daughter Katherine¹s will^[3].)..."

CHILDREN	2.	i.	Edmund NEEDHAM	Please see his own page.
		ii.	John NEEDHAM	Married Abigail [surname not known].
		iii.	Anne NEEDHAM
		iv.	James NEEDHAM	Buried before 1660.
		v.	Benjamin NEEDHAM
		vi.	Robert NEEDHAM	Buried on 21 October 1612 in St. Martin's, Ludgate, England^[4].
		vii.	Katherine NEEDHAM	Died before 12 March 1691 in Chipping Barnett, Hertford, England^[7,22].
		viii.	Katherine NEEDHAM	Died by 1660^[4].
		ix.	Elizabeth NEEDHAM	Married Thomas BARNES Esq.
		x.	Mary NEEDHAM	Married John BRENT/BRYANT/BRIANT, in St. Martin's, Ludgate, England in December 1639^[4].

GENERATION

Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G10) Grandfather

FAMILY NUMBER

3604

SOURCES

1. The Essex Genealogist, Lindberg, Marcia Wiswall "Edmund Needham of Lynn and His Descendants", [Essex Gen-Lindberg], 25.

2. Waters, Henry T., Genealogical Gleanings in England, (Baltimore, 1969), [GenGlean], I:543.

3. Ibid. II:1239.

4. [Essex Gen], 25.

5. The American Genealogist, Bate, Kerry William, "Additions to the Needham Pedigree and The Needham Pedigree: Addenda", [TAG-Bate], 47[1971]:146-148; 49[1973]:170-171.

6. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR].

7. [Essex Gen], 26.

8. Essex Quarterly Court Files, [EQCF], 26:118.

9. The Probate Records of Essex County, [Essex Prob], 3:151-154.

10. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

11. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR or Reg.], 5:339, 50:532.

12. Backus, Mary Elizabeth (Neilson), The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus, ([Salem, Mass.: privately printed, 1949]), [Backus Anc.], 116.

13. Lewis, Alonzo, & James Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Mass., including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscot, and Nahant, 16219-[1893], (Lynn: George C. Herbert, [1890]), [Lynn Hist.], 188.

14. Hart, James M. Genealogical History of Samuel Hartt from London, England, to Lynn, Mass., 1640 and Descendants, to 1903, Nicholas Hart, from London to Taunton, Mass., 1642, at Boston, Mass., 1643, and Warwick, R.I., 1648, and Descendants, Isaac Hart from Scratby, England, to Watertown, Mass., 1636, Later of Reading, Mass., and Several Short Lines and Their Descendants up to 1903 (Pasadena, Calif.:[Rumford Printing Co., 1903]) [Hart (1903)] 2-3.

15. Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker & Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., (Boston, Mass.: [S. Usher], 1913), [Parker (#9), Parker-Ruggles], 284.

16. DeForest, Louis Effingham, Our Colonial and Continental Ancestors: The Ancestry of Mr. and Mrs. Louis William Dommerich, (New York, N.Y.: The DeForest Publ. Co., 1930), [Dommerich Chart], 44.

17. Howell, George Rogers, The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, 2nd ed., (Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons Co., 1887), [Southampton], 434.

18. Sanborn, V.C., Four Boston Families, Holbrook, Yendell, Vail & Whitman, (n.p., 1904), [Vail etc.], 1.

19. Wheat, Silas, Wheat Genealogy: A History Of The Wheat Family in America, with a Brief Account of the Name and Family in England and Normandy, (Brooklyn, N.Y.: S.C. Wheat, 1903), [Wheat], 57.

20. Boyd's Marriage Index, (London, 1626-1650), [Boyd], Grooms, vol. 41.

21. [TAG-Bate], 47[1971]:146-148; 49[1973]:170.

22. [GenGlean], II:1239-1240.

23. Hart Historical Notes [Newsletter], (Lincoln, MA: Hart Communications), [Hart Notes].

24. [Hart (1903)] 2-3.

25. [Lynn Hist.], 189,277.

26. [Hart (1903)] 1.

27. [Parker (#9), Parker-Ruggles], 284-285.

28. Treat, John Harvey, The Treat Family: a Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for Fifteen Generations, and Four Hundred and Fifty Years in England and America, Containing More than Fifteen Hundred Families in America, (Salem, Mass.: The Salem Press, 1893), [Treat], 229.

29. The Essex Antiquarian, (13 vols.)(n.p., 1897-1909), [EssexAnt], 4:32.

30. [Essex Prob], 2:234.

31. Ibid. 2:234-235.

32. [Essex Gen-Lindberg], 29.


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