1st wife of Joseph Hull

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1st wife of Joseph Hull

Also Known As: "Perhaps Joanna", "Not Joanna Coffin"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Crewkerne, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)
Death: between circa 1632 and 1634 (29-36)
Crewkerne, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:

Wife of Rev. Joseph Hull
Mother of Joanna Davis; Joseph Hull, Jr.; Captain Tristam Hull; Temperance Bickford; Elizabeth Heard and 2 others

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About 1st wife of Joseph Hull

Joseph Hull and his first wife had 7 children that we know of:

  1. Joanna, born winter 1619/20, probably in Colyton or Silferton, Devon. Joanna married twice, first Captain John Burstley - 28 Nov 1639, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA - and second Dolor Davis, ~1671.  She died sometime after 1693.
  2. Joseph, jr, born ~1622, probably at Northleigh (his father became rector there in 1621)
  3. Captain Tristram, our next ancestor, born ~1624, probably at Northleigh.
  4. Temperance, baptized 20 March 1625/6 at Northleigh.  She married John Bickford ~1649.
  5. Elizabeth, born ~1628, probably at Northleigh.  She married John Heard (who was NOT the son of Luke Heard and Sarah Wyatt) in ~1643, probably at York, Maine.  She died 30 Nov 1706.
  6. Grissell/Griselda, born ~1630. (She did NOT marry James Warren)
  7. Dorothy, born ~1632. She married twice, first Oliver Kent; second Captain Benjamin Mathews.

Origins

Rev. Joseph Hull was not married to Joanna Coffin! The name comes from some inventive and quite persuasive speculation by an eary Hull researcher, Orra Eugene Monnette. He based his speculation on the usual genealogical suspects: names of children, locations of possible relatives, etc. However, Phyllis Hughes found that the Joanna Coffin under consideration - daughter of Peter and Joanna (Thember) Coffin - was only ~3 years old when she supposedly married, so that's that. You still see the name in various published genealogies, because other researchers copied Monnette, and still others copied them - but it is quite wrong. (See Phyllis's article in the Hull Family Association Journal, v. 12, #1, Spring 2001, pp 23-4) link “ HFAm #1, Rev. Joseph Hull did not marry Joanna Coffin, as his first wife. There is also no proven evidence that Rev. Joseph even married a Joanna. It is well documented that the given name of his second wife was Agnes, but her surname is unknown; there is absolutely no evidence that she was Agnes Coffin.”


GEDCOM Note

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Coffin-1380 March 2019

Research Notes

There is NO evidence that Joanne Coffin married Joseph Hull. Please do not attach her to him. See here for information: “Common Errors on the Internet, in The Hull Family in America (pub. 1913), and in Other Published Records” By Phyllis J. Hughes, HFA Genealogist. https://www.hullfamilyassociation.org/genealogist_errors_joseph.shtml

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1st wife of Joseph Hull's Timeline

1598
1598
Crewkerne, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)
1620
1620
Crewkerne, Somersetshire, or, Northleigh, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
1622
1622
Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England (United Kingdom)
1624
1624
Probably, Northleigh, Devon, England
1625
March 20, 1625
Crewkerne, Somersetshire, Or Northleigh, Devonshire
1628
1628
Northleigh, Devon, England
1630
1630
Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England (United Kingdom)
1631
1631
Crewkerne, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)
1632
1632
Age 34
Crewkerne, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)