Ancestry of
Lydia Child

(1711–1759)

Lydia Child

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Child Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah French   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 7 Oct 1711 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1759 
  • Death Location:
  • Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Notes: 

  • This Lydia Child, wife of James Fay, is not the daughter of Joseph Child and Ruth Church. That Lydia Child was the wife of David Ingersole. Lydia's sister Hannah married James Fay's brother John Fay.

• Marriages for Lydia Child

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  • Spouse:
  • James Fay
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Dec 1727
  • Marriage Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Lydia Child

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 3233, Membership application for Horace Secor Jr, gives incorrect parentage.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, p. 38, Birth record for son Daniel Fay.
  • ³ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, Case 4412, Probate file for father John Child.
  • ⁴ 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), 507.
  • ⁵ Fay, Orlin P., Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants, Cleveland, Ohio: Press of J. B. Savage (1898), 23-24.
  • ⁶ Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, Applied Genealogy, n. p.: Ancestry Incorporated (1988), 249.