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Generation 1

RICHARD HYLAND (d. 1591) of Waldron

Parents: Unknown

Richard Hyland was buried on 25 Mar 1591 in All Saints, Waldron. [Ref] He had an unknown wife, buried on 5 Jan 1588/9 in All Saints.

There was another Richard Hyland buried in Wyland in 1586. Either he or our Richard had a wife Jone buried on 30 May 1567 in All Saints. It is likely that this Richard married the widow Christian Smith on 7 Sep 1567 in All Saints. [Ref]

Richard Hyland, husbandman of Waldron, was not a rich man. In his will, signed on 10 Mar 1590/1 and proved on 1 Jul 1591, he left six shillings and eight pence to each of Peter Hyland's children and three shillings and 4 pence to each of his four unnamed daughters. He left a coverlet to his son John. [Ref]

Children of Richard Hyland:

1. Four daughters
2. Peter Hyland
3. John Hyland was buried on 5 Feb 1627/8 in Waldron. [Ref] He married Joan Unknown. [Ref] She was buried in early Dec 1626 in Waldron. [Ref] John Hyland, yeoman of Waldron, made his will on 12 Feb 1626/7. It was probed on 23 Feb 1627/8. He left a bequest to the children of his kinsman Thomas Hyland. [Ref]

Generation 2

PETER HYLAND of Waldron

Parents: Richard Hyland

Children of Peter Hyland:

1. Thomas Hyland (probable son) was baptised on 29 Jun 1581 in All Saints, Waldron. He was buried on 10 Feb 1629/30 in All Saints, Waldron. He married Agnes Woodman.

Generation 3

THOMAS HYLAND 1 (bp. 1581 - 1630) of Waldron

Parents: Peter Hyland (probable father)

Thomas Hyland, son of Peter, was baptised on 29 Jun 1581 in All Saints, Waldron. [Ref] He was buried on 10 Feb 1629/30 in All Saints, Waldron. [Ref] He married Agnes Woodman on 17 May 1597 in All Saints, Waldron. [Ref]

Agnes's father was probably John Woodman. John Woodman, husbandman of Mayfield, Sussex, made his will on 23 Apr 1591. It was proved on 3 Jun 1591. He mentions his daughter Margaret; his daughter Joane and her husband Richard Carkick; Annis, his youngest daughter; Mary, his eldest daughter and her husband John Reames. [Ref]

Thomas Hyland, yeoman of Waldron, Sussex, wrote his will on 12 Feb 1626/7. It was proved on 20 Feb 1629/30. He mentions his eldest son John; sons Thomas, William, Samuel, Josias and Nicholas; daughter Elizabeth and Mary. [Ref]

Children of Thomas Hyland and Agnes Woodman:

1. Mary Hyland was baptised on 11 Jun 1598 in Waldron. [Ref]
2. John Hyland
3. Thomas Hyland 2 was baptised on 23 Apr 1604 in Waldron. He died between 14 Feb 1682/3 and 3 May 1683. He married Deborah Unknown.
4. Samuel Hyland was baptised on 8 Nov 1606 in Waldron. [Ref]
5. Peter Hyland was baptised on 1 Mar 1607/8 in Waldron. [Ref]
6. Nicholas Hyland was baptised on 3 Jul 1609 in Waldron. [Ref] He married Sarah Hunt on 1 Oct 1632 in Iden, Sussex. [Ref]
7. Josias Hyland was baptised on 20 Sep 1617 in Waldron. [Ref]
8. Elizabeth Hyland [Ref]
9. Anne Hyland was buried on 2 Feb 1629/30 in Waldron. [Ref]
   

Generation 4

THOMAS HYLAND 2 (bp. 1604 - 1683) of Tenterden and Scituate

Parents: Thomas Hyland 1 and Agnes Woodman

Thomas Hyland was baptised on 23 Apr 1604 in Waldron. He died between 14 Feb 1682/3 and 3 May 1683. He married Deborah Unknown.

Thomas Hyland lived in Tenterden between 1629 and 1636. [Ref]

Thomas Hyland is in the Scituate section of the 1643 list of those able to bear arms. [Ref]

Children of Thomas Hyland and Deborah Unknown:

1. Thomas Hyland was baptised on 15 Nov 1629 in Tenterden. He married Elizabeth Stockbridge.
2. Mary Hyland was baptised on 27 Mar 1631 in Tenterden. [Ref] She married John Bryant in 1664. [Ref]
3. Elizabeth Hyland was baptised on 23 Sep 1632 in Tenterden. [Ref]
4. Sarah Hyland was baptised on 9 Mar 1633/4 in Tenterden. [Ref] She died in Nov 1688 in Scituate. [Ref] She married Thomas Turner [Ref] on 6 Jan 1651/2 in Scituate. [Ref][Ref]
5. Anna Hyland was baptised on 17 Jan 1635/6 in Tenterden. [Ref]
6. Samuel Hyland died in King Philip's War. [Ref] He married Isabel Unknown. [Ref] She married second Samuel Wetherell
7. Deborah Hyland was born on 23 Sep 1632. [Ref] She died after 1688. [Ref] She married Francis James. [Ref] Francis, the son of Philip and Jane James, died on 29 Nov 1684 in Hingham. [Ref]
8. Ruth Hyland [Ref]

Generation 5

THOMAS HYLAND 3 (bp. 1629) of Scituate

Parents: Thomas Hyland 2 and Deborah Unknown

Thomas Hyland was baptised on 15 Nov 1629 in Tenterden. [Ref] He married Elizabeth Stockbridge on 1 Jan 1660/1. [Ref][Ref][Ref]

Thomas's father left him lands in Waldron and a house in Tenterden. [Ref]

In her 27 May 1672 will, Ester Woodfield of Scituate left a bequest to the "wife of Thomas Hiland". [Ref]

Children of Thomas Hyland and Elizabeth Stockbridge:

1. Mary Hyland was born in 1667 in Scituate. She died on 5 Nov 1729 in Scituate. She married Amos Turner.
2. John Hyland was born on 17 Mar 1670/1 in Scituate. [Ref] He was baptised on 6 Aug 1671 in Scituate. [Ref] He died on 15 Dec 1753 in Scituate. [Ref] He married Elizabeth James on 3 Jan 1694/5 in Scituate. [Ref] Elizabeth was probably born in 1673, the year her Quaker parents, William and Mehitable James, were fined for "carnall coppulation" by the Plymouth Colony court. [Ref]

Generation 6

MARY HYLAND (1667 - 1729)

Parents: Thomas Hyland and Elizabeth Stockbridge

Mary Hyland was born in 1667 in Scituate. [Ref] She died on 5 Nov 1729 in Scituate. [Ref] She married Amos Turner on 6 Apr 1695 in Scituate. [Ref]

References

Church Records

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

French, Elizabeth, "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 66, 1913, 61-67.

Myers, Marya C., "John and Elizabeth (James) Hyland of Scituate, Massachusetts and some of their Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 157, 2003, 209-220.

Myers, Marya and Donald W. James, Jr., "A New Look at the Family of Francis and Philip James of Hingham: Immigrant Ancestors," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 151, 1997, 61-86.

Public Records

Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., "List of Those Able to Bear Arms in the Colony of New Plymouth 1643," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4, 1850, 255-259.

Vital Records

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2007.

W. H. W., "Early Marriages and Births in Scituate, Mass. Prior to 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 18, 1864, 285-287.; 19, 1865, 219-221.

Wills

Winsor, Justin, "Abstract of the Earliest Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7, 1853, 236.