Family Group Record for Robert Williams Tanner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Husband Robert Williams Tanner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 24 Jul 1607-1608 - Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England Died: 1 Sep 1693 - Roxbury, , Massachussetts Buried: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Father: Stephen Williams Cordwainer (1583-1625) Mother: Mary Margaret Cooke (1586-1625) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Married: 11 Dec 1628 - Tombland, Norwich, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Spouse: Margaret ( - ) - 3 Nov 1675 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Spouse: Martha Strong (1613-1704) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wife Elizabeth Stalham -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 11 Sep 1608 - Tombland, Norwich, England Died: 28 Jul 1674 - Roxbury, , Massachussetts Buried: 1674 - St.Eustace, , Massachussetts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Father: John Stalham (1572- ) Mother: Alicia Gibson (Abt 1575- ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 F Elizabeth Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Abt 1630 - , , England Died: 5 Mar 1662 - Cambridge, , Massachusetts Buried: 1662 - Old Cambridge, Burial Ground Spouse: Richard Cutter Cooper (Abt 1621-1693) Marr: Abt 1644 - Cambridge, , Massachusetts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 F Deborah Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Abt 1631 - , , England Died: 1675 Buried: Spouse: John Turner ( - ) Marr: 1648 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 M Samuel Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Abt 1632 - , , Norwich, England Died: 28 Sep 1698 Buried: Spouse: Theoda Parke ( - ) Marr: 3 Feb 1654 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 F Mary Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Abt 1633 - Roxbury, , Massachusetts Died: 19 Feb 1662 Buried: Spouse: Nicholas Wood ( - ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 M John Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: - , , England Died: 6 Oct 1658 - Roxbury, , Massachusetts Buried: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 M Isaac Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 1 Sep 1638 - Roxbury, , Massachusetts Died: 10 Feb 1707 Buried: Spouse: Martha Parke ( - ) Marr: 1660 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 M Stephen Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 8 Nov 1640 - Roxbury, , Massachusetts Died: 15 Feb 1720 Buried: Spouse: Sarah Wise ( - ) Marr: 1666 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 M Thomas Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: Abt 1642 - Roxbury, , Massachusetts Died: Abt 1642 Buried: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Husband's General Notes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- !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 May1636. 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 p16by 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) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wife's General Notes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- !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 FBouley@prodigy.net