Mary Eccles

Not the same as Mary Prescott

Biography

Mary Platts, a daughter of James and Martha (Ainsworth) Gawkroger alias Platts, was baptized on 19 March 1606/7, and died on 23 August 1675 at Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

She married Abt 1637 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts to Richard Eccles. He was born about 1614 in England and died 10 Mar 1696 at Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. His parents are not known.

Their children:

• 1. Hannah (Anne) Eccles b. Abt 1640
• 2. Mary Eccles b. Abt 1638
• 3. Martha Eccles b. Abt 1642
• 4. Timothy Eccles b. 15 Mar 1645

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Disambiguation

From Ancestors of Mary Gawkroger - Platts

"In one of my messages on this subject I said , incorrectly "In this he sets forth the arguments for saying that Mary (G-Platt) was the daughter of James Prescott and his wife Martha Ainsworth (James 6 ; James 5; Richard 4;-3 and 2; John 1)" I should of said " daughter of James Gawkroger als. Platts and his wife Martha (Ainsworth)" These were the parents of the Mary who instead of marrying Prescott married Richard Eccles and died 1675 at Cambridge Mass; and parents as well of Samuel b prob 1618 or 19 who came to Rowley and used the names Platts. Robert"

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gawkroger-1

Mary Gawkroger was the daughter of Abraham Gawkroger and Martha Riley. She was baptized on 7 February 1612/3 at Sowerby, Yorkshire, England.

An early history of the family by Almira Larkin White misidentified her with her cousin Mary Gawkroger alias Platts, the daughter of James and Martha (Ainsworth) Gawkroger, baptized on 19 March 1606/7.[1] This was repeated in White's Ancestry of John Barber White.[2] However, Mary (Gawkroger) Prescott deposed she was aged 66 or thereabout in 1678, and so was not the Mary Gawkroger baptized in 1607.[3] Closer examination of the parish records revealed revealed several other possible Mary Gawkrogers; the daughter of Abraham Gawkroger and Martha Riley is the only one which fit all the known facts of John Prescott's wife including her deposed age.[4][5][6] The Mary Gawkroger who was born in 1607 was the wife of Richard Eccles, and she died 23 August 1675 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Notes

From "History Of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877". 2017. Google Books. Accessed April 25 2017. page 540

ECCLES, RICHARD, resided for a time on the westerly side of the Common, and afterwards on the westerly corner of Brattle and Ash streets. By his w. Mary he had Timothy, b. 15 Mar. 1644-5, (1. 21 Nov. 1656. Mary, m. John Watson of Roxbury; Anna (or Hannah), m. Gershom Brooks of Concord; Martha, m. Thomas Andrew 30 Oct. 1673. His w. Mary (1. 23 Aug. 1675,and he m. Susanna Carter 4 June 1677. Mr. Eccles was a weaver, and d. before 10 Mar. 1696-7, when the estate was sold by his daus. Mary and Anna (both widows), and Martha, whose husband, Thomas Andrew, joined in the sale.

From The Great Migration Begins, "Richard Brown of Watertown" page 264:

In her will dated 14 June 1676 and proved 6 March 1676/7, Elizabeth Jackson, the relict widow of Richard Jackson of Charlestown [and of Richard Browne of Watertown], bequeathed "to the children of my husband's kinswoman Mary Eccles deceased L10" ... "to Richard Eccles as an acknowledgement of his unwearying loves and pain to me, 20 nobles "

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References

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gawkroger-1 cites
   1. White, Almira Larkin. Genealogy of the Ancestors and Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1547–1909, 4 vols. (Haverhill, 1900–9): vol. 4 pages 161-86. Caution: has incorrect parents.
   2. White, Almira Larkin ed. Ancestry of John Barber White and of His Descendants. (Kansas City, 1913): pages 130-131.Caution: has incorrect parents.
   3. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 95 no. 1 (January 1941): page 8.
   4. Weis, Frederick Lewis. Mary Gawkroger, Wife of John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts, (1959). Archive.org Link
   5. Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Colonel John Stevens Harringon and His Wife Frances Helen Miller, 2 vols. (Concord, 1948–52), vol. 1 page 61.
   6. The American Genealogist, vol. 40 no. 1 (January 1964): pages 22-29. "Notes on Families from the Parish of Halifax, Yorkshire: Farrer, Deane, Platts, Fairbank, Prescott", by John G. Hunt.
   7. Weis, Frederick Lewis. Mary Gawkroger, Wife of John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts, (1959). Archive.org Link
2. Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700. Page 496. < AmericanAncestors > [subscription needed] .

"ECKLES/ECCLES, Richard (1614-) & Mary [PLATTS] (-23 Aug 1665) (husband or wf appar. ae 40 in 1654) (wf kinswoman of Richard JACKSON) (had Timothy, by 15 (1) 1644); by 1644(5?); Cambridge" {Essex Ant. 10:175}

1. Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Apr 23 2017, 21:19:56 UTC
2. Reference: WeRelate Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 23 2017, 22:48:14 UTC
3. Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 25 2017, 1:43:57 UTC
4. Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: May 29 2021, 15:30:31 UTC
5. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Unknown_(5222) cites
   1. Richard Eccles", in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862) 2:98.
6. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Platts-5 cites
   1. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Mary Gawkroger, 1612, 1629, 1678, wife of John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts., published 1959. Reference page 4
   2. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 1, page 596 $Subscription
   3. "Early Records of Boston" Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) Reference volume 8 (1854), page 345
   4. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Reference Cambridge Volume 1, page 224 $Subscription
   5. White, Almira Larkin. Genealogy of the descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts (Chase Brothers, 1909) Vol. 4, Page 167 NOTE: This source is correct with respect to her parentage, but INCORRECT regarding spouse John Prescott. Refer to Mary (Gawkroger) Prescott for the correct spouse of John Prescott