Ancestry of
Elizabeth Smart

Founder of Elizabeth Smart Foundation

Winifred -----

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• • 10th Great-grandmother of Elizabeth Smart — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7809 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1597 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Oct 1671 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • William Holman
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1627 
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  Jeremiah Holman (Ahnentafel No:3904 )

  Sarah Holman

  • Notes: 

  • Winifred's maiden name may have been Henchman. There is a marriage on record for a widower William Holman and Winifred Henchman in 1626 at Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England. More evidence is needed to confirm if this is the same couple.

    Winifred and her daughter Mary were accused of witchcraft by the family of John Gibson. There is no record of any trial, and both Winifred and Mary later filed defamation lawsuits of which Mary won hers.

• Sources for Winifred -----

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 389-391.
  • ² Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 184.
  • ³ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 13.

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