Ancestry of
Richard Child

(c1631–1694)

Richard Child

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Joshua Child 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Sadler   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1631 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Nov 1694 
  • Death Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Notes: 

  • Richard Child is related to the descendants of Wolstone and Ellen (Empson) Child but exactly how is unknown.

    Richard Child is not the son of William Child as claimed in some publications.

• Marriages for Richard Child

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  • Spouse:
  • Mehitable Dimmock
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1662
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Train
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Jan 1678
  • Marriage Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Richard Child

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Watertown, Vol. 1, p. 32, Birth record for daughter Experience Child.
  • ² New England Ancestors Magazine, Holiday 2003, Vol. 4.5, p. 38.
  • ³ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 1, p. 310, Marriage record for Richard Child and Mehitable Dimick.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 69.
  • ⁵ Watertown, MA: Vital Records, 1630-1825, Vol. 2, p. 4, Death record for Richard Child.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 87.
  • 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), 349.
  • ⁸ Barry, William, A History of Framingham, Massachusetts, Including the Plantation, from 1640 to the Present Time, Boston: James Munroe and Company (1847), 421.
  • ⁹ Child, Elias, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, Utica, NY: Curtiss and Childs, Printers (1881), 503.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 500.