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Husband: Robert WILLIAMS
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  Birthdate: 24 Jul 1607 - 1608 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
 Death date: 1 Sep 1693 Roxbury, , Massachussetts
     Buried:
 Occupation: Tanner
     Father: Stephen WILLIAMS (1583-1625)
     Mother: Mary Margaret COOKE (1586-1625)
    Married: 11 Dec 1628 - Tombland, Norwich, England
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Other Spouse: Margaret (    -    ) - 3 Nov 1675
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Other Spouse: Martha Strong (1613-1704)
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Wife: Elizabeth STALHAM
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  Birthdate: 11 Sep 1608 Tombland, Norwich, England
 Death date: 28 Jul 1674 Roxbury, , Massachussetts
     Buried: 1674 - St.Eustace, , Massachussetts
     Father: John STALHAM (1572-    )
     Mother: Alicia GIBSON (Abt 1575-    )
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Children
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1 F Elizabeth WILLIAMS
  Birthdate: Abt 1630 - , , England
 Death date: 5 Mar 1662 - Cambridge, , Massachusetts
     Buried: 1662 - Old Cambridge, Burial Ground
     Spouse: Richard CUTTER (Abt 1621-1693)
       Marr: Abt 1644 - Cambridge, , Massachusetts
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2 F Deborah WILLIAMS
  Birthdate: Abt 1631 - , , England
 Death date: 1675
     Buried:
     Spouse: John TURNER (    -    )
       Marr: 1648
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3 M Samuel WILLIAMS
  Birthdate: Abt 1632 - , , Norwich, England
 Death date: 28 Sep 1698
     Buried:
     Spouse: Theoda PARKE (    -    )
       Marr: 3 Feb 1654
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4 F Mary WILLIAMS
  Birthdate: Abt 1633 - Roxbury, , Massachusetts
 Death date: 19 Feb 1662
     Buried:
     Spouse: Nicholas WOOD (    -    )
       Marr:
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5 M John WILLIAMS
  Birthdate:  - , , England
 Death date: 6 Oct 1658 - Roxbury, , Massachusetts
     Buried:
     Spouse:
       Marr:
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6 M Isaac WILLIAMS
  Birthdate: 1 Sep 1638 - Roxbury, , Massachusetts
 Death date: 10 Feb 1707
     Buried:
     Spouse: Martha PARKE (    -    )
       Marr: 1660
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7 M Stephen WILLIAMS
  Birthdate: 8 Nov 1640 - Roxbury, , Massachusetts
 Death date: 15 Feb 1720
     Buried:
     Spouse: Sarah WISE (    -    )
       Marr: 1666
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8 M Thomas WILLIAMS
  Birthdate: Abt 1642 - Roxbury, , Massachusetts
 Death date: Abt 1642
     Buried:
     Spouse: Never Married
       Marr:
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Husband's General Notes
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! In 1623 he left his fathers house and went to Norwich where he apprenticed to for 7 years to John Garrett, "Cordynar". He was later elected Warden of his guild and was a sealer of leather for the city. Came over in the "rose" in 1635 with wife and four children and two servants.
! Coat of arms for Robert WILLIAMS in "Robert WILLIAMS of Roxbury" by Harrison WILLIAMS on front fly leaf.
! MAY HAVE HAD 10 CHILDREN IN ALL
! Would have been 68 at time of 2nd marriage.

Sources:
! TAG 74:292-298, 1999 offers proof that wife of Richard Cutter could not be daughter of Robert WILLIAMS.
! Robert WILLIAMS was baptized in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England on Dec 11, 1608, to Stephen and Margaret (Cooke) WILLIAMS.
! Margaret Cooke was the daughter of Nicholas Cooke. (The Dolman Compendium, 1940, Paul H. Dolman).
! Immigration: 1637 on the John and Dorothy or the Rose (combined passenger list). With wife Elizabeth and four children: Samuel, John, Elizabeth, and Debra, and two servants: Mary WILLIAMS aged 18 years and Anne WILLIAMS, aged 15 years. Robert was 28 years old.
! See the Norfolk Co, England Heritage Page.
! Freeman in Roxbury 2 May 1636.
! Ct. Nutmegger Sep 2000, pp223-224
! Member of the Ancient and Honorable artillery Co.
! Will dated 20 Nov 1685
! Savage Vol.4 p566
   ROBERT, Roxbury 1637, freem. 2 May 1638, came, it is said, from Norwich, Co. Norfolk, with w. Elizabeth by fam. tradit. nam. Stratton, and ch. Samuel, Mary, if not more, as that ch. was five yrs. old, and I think ano. s. John was a passeng. with his f. for clear is it, that he was not b. at R. where the only b. appear, Isaac, 1 Sept. 1638; Stephen, 8 Nov. 1640; and in the fam. geneal. is nam. also Thomas, by Ellis said to be b. after, and in the Hist. said to have d. young; but I doubt both the authorities, as neither b. nor d. after long search is found in the rec. of either town or ch. Still the deficiency of rec. is seen in other respects, as the will of 26 Nov. 1685, names gr.ch. Deboroah Totman, and Elizabeth Robinson, for wh. I find not the mos. so that we are uncertain, whether he had two ds. m. or three. His eldest d. Mary m. Nicholas Wood; w. Elizabeth d. last of June, or 28 July 1674, by strange carelessness in the town rec. call. 80 yrs. old. when she prob. was a dozen yrs. younger. He m. 3 Nov. 1675, Margaret, wid. of John Fearing of Hingham, but whether he had a third w. is less certain, tho. in fam. geneal. he is supplied with one, Miss Martha Strong, said to have d. 1704, in her 92d yr. He d. 1 Sept. 1693, in the first art. of his will providing for the performance of the covenant with his w.
! Robert WILLIAMS of Roxbury p16 by WILLIAMS (1934)
! Descendants of Timothy Walesby WILLIAMS Howe Whittemore (1875)
! Cutters New England Families Vol.1 p156
! Hist. of Ancient Wethersfield Vol.2by Adams & Styles
! NEHGR (1882) Vol 36 p277(1890) Vol.44 pp211-212
! Killpatrick Family V.5 & 7 pp98-99by Kilpatrick (1939)
! Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles Henry Pope p.500
! Ancestral Heads of New England Families by Frank R. Holmes (1620-1700) p.265
! Planters of the Commonwealth (1620-1640) by Charles Edward Banks p.84
! Ct. Nutmegger V.33#2 Sept. 2000 p223 says Robert came to America in 1637 in the Rose or the John and Dorothy. He was one of the founders of the first Free Scool in America at Roxbury (BURKE) Robert WILLIAMS was baptized in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England on Dec 11, 1608, to Stephen and Margaret (Cooke) WILLIAMS. Margaret Cooke was the daughter of Nicholas Cooke. (The Dolman Compendium, 1940, Paul H. Dolman).

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Wife's General Notes
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! She may have been born in "Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Eng."
! Elizabeth was 80 at death.

Sources:
! Torrey says she died 28 or 30 of July 1674.
! Torrey says was born in 1609 but if she was 80 then she was born about 1595.
! Ct. Nutmegger V.33#2 Sept. 2000 p223.