Assigning the mother as Priscilla was an error. Notes in profiles have Christopher (born about 1610) as the son of Grisill Spratt.
The marriage of William Helme and Priscilla Wentworth was on 1 Sep 1619 in Waltham, Lincolnshire, England.
So it is quite unlikely she was Christopher’s mother.
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Disputed Associations
In a previous version of this profile, Christopher Helme was reported the son of William Helme and his third wife, Priscilla Wentworth. This association with Priscilla was disproven and has been severed. See Research Notes.
Research Notes
The will of William Elme of Long Sutton is dated 21 March 1648/9; proved 3 April 1649.[14] Various early interpretations of the will led to an array of claims regarding Christopher's birth and the identity of his mother. Common among the early published accounts, was that William Elme's "first" wife, and Christopher's mother, was Priscilla Wentworth, daughter of Christopher and Katherine (Marbury) Wentworth. In his will, William called out his son Christopher, writing,[15]
And if that Christopher Elme my sonne by my first wife be living and come lawfully to demand that legacy wch I give unto him I will that my sonne John Elme give five pounts a yeare unto him the sayd Christopher Elme during the term of the natuarall life of the sayd Christopher ...
In 1878, John Wentworth, The Wentworth Genealogy ..., followed the 1868 account, reporting that Priscilla Wentworth, baptized Waltham, Lincolnshire, England, was the mother of Christopher Helme.[17] This association was accepted by the authors of Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, (1938)[18] and was broadly disseminated.
In 1902, Canon A. R. Maddison published a pedigree about William Elmes of Long Sutton, reporting William married (1) to Grisell Spratt. Maddison's account of William reported 10 children, but a line was left off the pedigree, so that the parentage of only five children (including Christopher) was attributed to Grisell. In Maddison's account, William Elme married (2) 1617 (license dated 9 July 1617; she was age 30) to Anne (_____) Smith, "widow, of Reepham," and (3) Priscilla Wentworth of Waltham (license dated 28 August 1619; she was age 24). In this account, it was Christopher was said "doubtful if alive 21 March 1648-9."[19]
In 1936, Meredith B. Colket followed Maddison's pedigree, adding that Priscilla Wentworth hadn't married Christopher's father, William Helme, until 1 September 1619--too late to have been the mother of the man who signed the Exeter Combination in July 1639.[20]
In 1944, Richard LeBaron Bowen published an account of Christopher's parentage, outlining various theories. He concludes, "As the case now stands the preponderance of he evidence indication that the mother of Christopher Helme was his father's third wife, Priscilla Wentworth.[21]
Grisill Sprat' was the mother of Christopher Helme, per his father's will. dated March 21, 1648.[22]
The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... Weis claims here that Christopher is the son of William's first wife. But there are other errors in the line as given by Weis - Thomas 16's father was John not Thomas, and his wife's mother was Isabel Savile not Eland. Allegedly. Recent work does the Calverley section differently. But none of these other things is fatal.
In 2006, Donald Henry Stahle, June Bennett Helme and Charles Milton Helms, claimed Christopher Helmes was baptized Long Sutton, 24 July 1603,[23] citing (apparently) Paul Gifford, Elmes Family of Long Sutten reporting this work includes Baptisms, burials and marriages at Long Sutton."[24]
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