Ancestry of Dr.
H. H. Holmes

Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”

Susanna -----

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of H. H. Holmes — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 453 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Jan 1672/1673 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Merrill
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1630 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Nathaniel Merrill

  John Merrill

  Abraham Merrill

  Daniel Merrill (Ahnentafel No:226 )

  Abel Merrill

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources state that Susanna's maiden name is Wolterton and that she is the sister of Gregory Wolterton. Other sources place some doubt on this claim. For one such argument, see The American Genealogist, 1955, Vol. 32, p. 198. Other sources give her maiden name as Peabody.

• Additional marriages for Susanna -----

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  • Spouse:
  • Stephen Jordan
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1660

• Sources for Susanna -----

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury Deaths, Page 630, [Death].
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1955, Vol. 32, pp. 198-199.
  • ³ The Essex Genealogist, 2013, Vol. 33, p. 49.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005), 116.
  • ⁵ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 420.
  • ⁶ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2009, Vol. 42, p. 173.
  • ⁷ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1914), 933-934.
  • ⁸ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, n.p.: n.p. (1938), 1037-1041.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 26.
  • ¹⁰ Stearns, Ezra S., comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 133.