Note: Terling is five miles north of Little Baddow and Sandon is about two miles south. [Ref]

Generation 1

RICHARD GAYMER (d. 1613) of Terling

Parents: Unknown

Richard Gaymer was buried on 10 Oct 1613 in Terling. [Ref] He married first Margaret Mason on 23 Jul 1590 in Terling. [Ref] She was buried on 2 Jul 1602 in Terling. [Ref] He married second Joan Robinson on 19 Feb 1602/3 in Fairstead, Essex. [Ref] She married second Hierome Neale on 31 Jul 1614 in Terling. [Ref]

Richard was a prosperous miller and landowner; he was literate. [Ref] He served on several juries between 1595 and 1601. [Ref]

Richard signed his will on 8 Oct 1613. [Ref] He mentions his wife Joan; his eldest son John; his second son Andrew; his third son James; his fourth son Richard; his fifth son Frances; his daughters Judith, Sara, Elizabeth and Lydia Gaymer. [Ref]

Children of Richard Gaymer and Margaret Mason:

1. John Gaymer
2. Sarah Gaymer was baptised on 20 Jan 1593/4 in Terling. [Ref]
3. Elizabeth Gaymer was baptised on 31 Oct 1596 in Terling. [Ref]
4. Andrew Gaymer was baptised on 2 Apr 1600 in Terling. [Ref]
5. Lydia Gaymer was baptised on 18 May 1602 in Terling. She married Humphrey Turner.

Children of Richard Gaymer and Joan Robinson:

1. James Gaymer was baptised on 8 Jan 1603/4 in Terling. [Ref] He was buried on 19 Nov 1616 in Terling. [Ref]
2. Richard Gaymer was baptised on 31 Oct 1605 in Terling. [Ref]
3. Judith Gaymer was baptised on 21 May 1607 in Terling. [Ref] She was buried on 15 Nov 1616 in Terling. [Ref]
4. Bridget Gaymer was baptised on 30 Mar 1609 in Terling. [Ref] She sas buried on 20 Apr 1614 in Terling. [Ref]
5. Frances Gaymer was baptised on 20 Jan 1610/1 in Terling. [Ref] He was buried on 21 Jan 1612/3 in Terling. [Ref]
6. Frances Gaymer was baptised on 7 Feb 1612/3.

Generation 2

LYDIA GAYMER (bp. 1602 - 1669/70)

Parents: Richard Gaymer and Margaret Mason [Ref]

Lydia Gaymer was baptised on 18 May 1602 in Terling, Essex. [Ref] She was died between 23 Jul 1669, when she consented to a deed, and 28 Feb 1669/70, when she was not named in her husband's will. [Ref] She married Humphrey Turner on 24 Oct 1618 in Sandon, Essex. [Ref]

Why did Humphrey and Lydia get married in Sandon? Turner [Ref] explains that the rector there was willing to perform quick weddings: he married 511 couples between 1615 and 1635. As Lydia was about 17 when she married Humphrey, they may have found it expedient. [Ref]

A Scituate land record establishes that Humphrey Turner's wife was named Lydia. [Ref]

Goody Turner joined the church in Scituate on 10 Jan 1635/6. [Ref]

References

Church Records

Otis, Amos, trans., "Scituate and Barnstable Church Records," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 9, 1855, 279-287; 10,1856, 37-43, 345-351.

Encyclopedias

Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. Entry for Humphrey Turner.

Family Genealogies

Turner, Verner Dow, "Lydia Gaymer, the Wife of Humphrey Turner of Scituate," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 151, 1997, 286-290.