1427. Mellows

Outline

  1. Abraham Mellows (ca. 1570–1639) m. Martha Bulkeley (b. ca. 1572–aft. 1633); Lincs., Eng.; Charlestown, Mass.
  2. Oliver Mellows (ca. 1598–1638) m. (1) 1620 Mary James (1597–ca. 1632); Sutterton, Boston, Lincs., Eng.; Braintree, Mass.
  3. Elizabeth Mellows (1625–1691) m. (2) ca. 1653 Edward Wright (ca. 1625–1691); Concord, Mass.

Sources

The basic published source on this family is Donald Lines Jacobus and Clarence Almon Torrey, James, Mellowes and Ingoldsby Family Connections, American Genealogist 11 (1934/5): 26-30, 98-101, 143-5, 208-16. A documented biographical sketch of Abraham appears in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 2:1248-50. Alicia Crane Williams, Early New England Families, 1641–1700, 2 vols. to date (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015–9), 1:235-47, gives a similar treatment of Oliver and his widow.

Related surnames

2855. James · 713. Wright

The known ancestry of Martha Bulkeley is extensive and has been widely studied. Begin with Donald Lines Jacobus, The Bulkeley Genealogy (New Haven, Conn., 1933), 3-22.

Created 29 September 2003; last updated 22 February 2020.
Austin W. Spencer | email: spencer@rootedancestry.com