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About 1st wife of Walter Hoyt
Not the daughter of Mathias ‘the chandler’ Sension, Sr.
Biography
Updated 3 June 2024
Disputed origins
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sangins-1
NOTE: There is no record of a daughter Susanna or Elizabeth St. John who some have claimed married colonial immigrant Walter Hoyt. Matthias had no such daughter; Walter Hoyt had no such wife.[8]
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-376279
This profile represents the first wife of Walter Hoyt, early immigrant to Connecticut. Her first name and maiden names are unknown, and we do not know her parents.[1] She is assumed to have been born in England, as were most of the early immigrants to Massachusetts and Connecticut.
The birth date is an estimate, based on her approximate marriage date.
Marriage and Children
She married by about 1642 (eldest child born c. 1642) to Walter Hoyt.[1] She must have died by about 1652 when Walter married, as his second, to Rhoda (Tinker) Hobbs Taylor.[1]
Children of Walter Hoyt and his first wife (name unknown):
- Elizabeth Hoyt, m. at Norwalk, Samuel St. John in 1663.[2] This may have caused the confusion of his first wife's name.
- John Hoyt, b. at Windsor 13 July 1644[2]
- Thomas Hoyt,* d by 11 Feb 1695/6 (not incl. in Walter's will)[3]
- Hannah Hoyt, m. at Norwalk, 20 Oct. 1664, Judah Gregory[2]
- Child of "Hoyt", d. at Windsor 1647[2]
- Thomas is not included by Jacobus, but Prindle identifies evidence for him.
Research Notes
Question: Is the first wife of Walter Hoyt actually Elizabeth St. John?
The first wife of Walter Hoyt is often said to be Elizabeth St. John (aka Sension), a sister of Mathias Sension Sr.[4][5] Note that this relationship is not accepted by Anderson in his Great Migration series or Jacobus in his Families of Old Fairfield.[6][7]
So what is the evidence:
- The will of Mathias Sension Sr. gives "unto my dearly beloved brother and sister Hoyt, 20 shillings as a token of my love."
- Walter Hoite was a witness to the this will by Mathias Sension Sr.
- On 3 January 1670/1, the town of Norwalk voted that Mathias Sension Jr. "is to take up his proportion of six acres to the hundred upon Elie's Neck next to his uncle Hoite."
- Walter Hoyt and Mathias Sension Sr. moved to Norwalk together and settled on adjoining property.
So, if Mathias Sension Sr called Walter Hoyt his "dearly beloved brother," and Mathias Sension jr was given land next to "uncle Hoite," is the best solution that Walter Hoyt must have married a sister of Mathias Sension Sr? It turns out there are problems with this and better solutions.
Problems and solution:
Though Mathias Sension and Walter Hoyt were clearly related somehow the relationship is not clearly stated or proven. It is just as possible that Mathias and Walter had married sisters, as the terms uncle and brother would have this meaning in the 17th century.
The English origins of Mathias Sension have been identified and published.[8][9] He was the son of Christopher Sension of St. Olave Silver Street parish in London. The parish records at St. Olave Silver Street and the will of Christopher Sension show that he had four surviving sons and no surviving daughters. Mathias Sension had no sisters who could have been the wife of Walter Hoyt.
The relationship is explained by the fact that they did marry sisters.[10] The second wife of Walter Hoyt has been identified as Rhoda Tinker, while the wife of Mathias Sension was Mary Tinker. They are both daughters of Robert Tinker and Mary Merwin.
GEDCOM Note
!sister of Mathias St. John
GEDCOM Note
GEDCOM Note
!From research by Lola Sorenson
!Also s.p. 20 Nov 1965 LOGAN
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1st wife of Walter Hoyt's Timeline
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1620
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England
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| 1631 |
November 6, 1631
Age 11
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St. Botolph, Bishop's Gate, London, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1644 |
July 13, 1644
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Windsor, Connecticut
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1647
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| 1649 |
1649
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Norwalk, Connecticut, British Colonial America
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| 1652 |
1652
Age 32
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FaIrfield County., Connecticut
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| 1941 |
January 10, 1941
Age 32
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May 27, 1941
Age 32
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| 1960 |
November 20, 1960
Age 32
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