Ancestry of
Joshua Merrick

(c1680–c1740)

Gabriel Whelden

View famous kin of Gabriel Whelden

• • Great-grandfather of Joshua Merrick — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • Henry Whelden 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1590 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 11 FEB 1653/1654 to 04 APR 1654 
  • Death Location:
  • Malden, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jane -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1611 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Whelden

  Catherine Whelden (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  Henry Whelden

  Mary Whelden

  Martha Whelden

  John Whelden

  Ruth Whelden

  John Whelden

  • Notes: 

  • Gabriel Whelden may have had a second wife name Margaret who died after 02 OCT 1655.

    The English origin of Gabriel Wheldon is discussed in a New England Historical and Genealogical Register article (v.163:253-261) by Jan Porter and Daniel F. Stramara Jr., with additions and corrections published a year later (v.164:295-296) in the same publication.

• Sources for Gabriel Whelden

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2009, Vol. 163, pp. 253-261.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 368.
  • ³ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 8.
  • ⁴ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 63.