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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Martha Hubbard

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2453 
  • Father:
  • William Hubbard 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1613 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Jul 1687 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Simon Eyre
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1651 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Maria Eyre

  John Eyre (Ahnentafel No:1226 )

  • Notes: 

  • Many sources give the mother of Martha Hubbard as Judith Knapp. Through her they can claim royal ancestry. However Robert Charles Anderson in his The Great Migration series of books points out that based on the ages of the children given in a 1635 passenger list of the ship Defence, William Hubbard must have had two wives because Judith was not old enough to be the mother of his four oldest children. Also a gap of seven years between sons William and Nathaniel support a second wife. Based on Anderson's conclusions, only Nathaniel, Richard and Margaret Hubbard are the children of Judith Knapp. All the other children of William Hubbard are from an unknown wife.

• Additional marriages for Martha Hubbard

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  • Spouse:
  • John Whittingham
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1652

• Sources for Martha Hubbard

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 193.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1915, Vol. 69, p. 250.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1855, Vol. 9, p. 252, Birth record for son John Eire.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1879, Vol. 33, p. 19.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1990, Vol. 65, pp. 17-23.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 440.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 486.
  • ⁸ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley, Being an Account of his Career, his Ancestry ..., New Haven, Connecticut: unknown (1933), 35.
  • ⁹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 40.

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