Ancestry of
Betsey Sharkey

(1894–1984)

James Bearse Jr.

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Betsey Sharkey — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 212 
  • Father:
  • James Bearse 
  • Mother:
  • Experience Howland   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1689 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 5 Sep 1763 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abiah Ford
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Sep 1713 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plympton, Plymouty, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Austin Bearse (Ahnentafel No:106 )

  James Bearse

  Mial Bearse

  Asa Bearse

  Consider Bearse

  Rebecca Bearse

  • Notes: 

  • GSMD Gen. No. 094148, member application has an incorrect birth date of 03 OCT 1689, and an incorrect death date of 11 OCT 1758. The dates given on the application were for the wrong James Bearse.

• Sources for James Bearse Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, FHL 7009754, Image 130, Marriage of James Bearce and Abia Ford.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plympton, Vol. 1, p. 17, Birth record for son Miall Bears/Bearce.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1965, Vol. 119, pp. 104, 108.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 2008, Vol. 83, pp. 125.
  • ⁵ The Mayflower Descendant, 1901, Vol. 3, p. 94, Birth records for children of James Jr and Abia Bears.
  • ⁶ Bierce, Thurber H. and Lisle Cottrell, Ancestors in the United States of Byron H. Bierce and His Wife Mary Ida Cottrell of Cortland County, New York, n. p.: n. p. (1962), 7-9.
  • ⁷ Stover, Margaret Harris and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 10, Samuel Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 37.
  • ⁸ Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 63.