Bridget Shaw

Not a known wife of Henry Shaw

Bridget Best

• Gender: Female
• Birth: circa April 09, 1592 Holdsworth, Ovendale, Halifax, Yorkshire, England
• Death: November 02, 1638 (42-50) Wessaguscus, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Place of Burial: Old Village Cemetery, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
• Daughter of Henry Best, II and Grace Boithes
• Wife of Abraham Shaw, of Dedham

Family

Children of Abraham Shawe and Bridget Best, all baptised in Halifax, England

• 1. Joseph bp. March 14 1618
• 2. Grace bp. August 15 1621 m. William Richards of Weymouth
• 3. Martha bp. Dec 1 1623 d. March 31 1625
• 4. Maria (Mary) bp. June 18 1626 m. John Bicknell of Weymouth
• 5. John bp. May 23 1630
• 6. Martha bp. Jan 6 1632 m Thomas Vinson of Weymouth
• 7. Susannah bp before Oct 1638 m Nicholas Byram of Weymouth

Disambiguation

Some online trees show, without evidence, Elizabeth Robinson as the second wife of Henry Beste and the mother of Bridget Beste. There is no record of this marriage or of her existence. The first mention of the wife of Henry Best dying is 27 July 1622,[8] long after Grace was born. Yorkshire records did not provide the name of the mother on any birth records. However, Bridget did name a daughter Grace, which fits with the naming patterns of the time.

Biography

Briggit Best, daughter of Henry Best was christened on 9 April 1592, in Ovenden, Yorkshire, England.[1] [2] As was the custom at the time, her mother's name was not listed in the baptism record, but Henry Best was married to Grace Boithes in Halifax Parish in 1577.[3]

Marriage

Bridget Best was married to Abraham Shaw on 24 June 1616 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.[4][5]

Emigration and Settlement in New England

Abraham and Bridget Shaw and children emigrated to America in 1636 on the Anne. At first they settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. Their house burned down in October 1636 and they moved to Dedham, Massachusetts.

Death

Abraham Shaw's undated will does not mention a wife,[6] so she is assumed to have died in Dedham, Massachusetts, before 1638, when Abraham's estate was inventoried.

Children

The bapstims of their children are given in the church records there as follow:-Joseph, Mch. 14, 1618; Grace, Aug. 15, 1621; Martha, Dec. 1, 1623; Maria, June 18, 1626; John, Feb. 16, 1628; John, May 23, 1630; Martha, Jan. 6, 1632. The burials of his dau. Martha on Mch. 31, 1625 and his son John born 1628, on Arpil 12, 1692 [sic: corrected in book to "1629"] are also recorded in the same church records ... [7]

References

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16195710&ref=wvr
• GEDCOM Source Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Best-10 cites

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch [1] : 11 February 2018, Briggit Best, 09 Apr 1592; citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 496,813, 528,766.
2. ↑ Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams. Page 5. Author: Frost, Josephine C. (Self Published, Brooklyn, 1920). [2]
3. ↑ Pitman, H. Minot. Abraham Shaw of Dedham. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. v. 106 (1952), pages 50-52. Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
4. ↑ U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012), Ancestry.com, Record for Abraham Shaw. [3] subscription site
5. ↑ Torrey, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. pg 664
6. ↑ Abstract of the Will of Abraham Shawe. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA), Vol. 2, 1848. Vol. 2, p. 180
7. ↑ Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams|Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams]], self-published, 1920. Page 5.
8. ↑ Yorkshire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.[4] subscription site
9. Bierbrier, M. L. The Origin of Abraham Shaw of Dedham. The American Genealogist, v. 57 (1981), pp. 85-87.
10. Frost, Josephine C. Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams, self-published, 1920. Page 5.
11. "Shawe". The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. vol. 49 (1895), page 64.
12. Shaw, Russell Franklin. "The English Ancestry of Abraham Shaw of Dedham, Massachusetts (1590-1638)". The Genealogist 10:1 (Spring 1989):86-97.