Elizabeth Thorndike (Stratton) - Elizabeth Thorndike: Gateway ancestor

More interested in the Virginia end of things - I'm one of those rare people who does NOT have Mayflower ancestry. :-D

I'm all Jamestown, Accomack/Northampton, and Anne Arundel, :-D

WOW did that open a can of worms!!! I discovered that persons unknown had tumorized MY family tree with unwarranted add-ons, bad merges, and who knows what else!

One should never, EVER attempt to work with Eastern Shore profiles - *especially* Accomack/Northampton Counties, VA - without referencing the Miles Files! http://espl-genealogy.org/MilesFiles/site/index.htm

They're not perfect, but they'll keep you from making a lot of silly mistakes.

Maven, I'm sure I don't have a Mayflower ancestor, either. Everyone came after 1620 from either the PGM like Liz's family here, settlers of Quebec or Italian immigration in the 1920s. So, you aren't totally alone! =D

I think this lady is probably one of the few really legit, confirmed 100% Magna Carta curety descendants. I haven't actually done any research into these people as I wasn't sure about them until I asked around. I don't have many people on my main tree past the early 1600s.

Sorry to hear about someone having a little party with your tree. =/ I hope you can fix it!!!

A book of Strattons; being a collection of Stratton records from England and Scotland, and a genealogical history of the early colonial Strattons in America, with five generations of their descendants; Author Stratton, Harriet Russell

https://archive.org/stream/bookofstrattonsb03stra/#page/n11/mode/2up

Extracts from it posted here
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135909323/john-stratton

Elizabeth is on Page 86

https://archive.org/stream/bookofstrattonsb03stra/#page/81/mode/1up...

Her husband’s biography at Westminster Abbey

John Thorndike

https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemoratio...

John Thorndyke (or Thorndike), younger brother of Abbey clergyman Herbert Thorndyke, emigrated to New England in the early 1630s and married Elizabeth Stratton, with whom he had seven children. John Thorndike made his will on 29th July 1668, shortly before sailing to England with two of his daughters. He died in his brother's house in the precincts of the Abbey not long after their arrival and was buried on 3rd November 1668 in the north east corner of the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.

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Which child for you, Chris?

Further Reading

"A Thorndike Family History. Descendants of John and Elizabeth Thorndike" edited by S. Steward and J.B. Arthaud (Newbury Street Press, Boston, USA, 2000)

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005769701

“Based in part on the papers of the late Morgan Hewitt Stafford at the New England Historic Genealogical Society."

Daughter Sarah Low

You should be able find her in Massachusetts Vital Records.

A couple are referenced https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126464641/sarah-low & Torrey is stuck to the Memorial for her husband, John Low, of Ipswich

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126464505/john-low

The Wikipedia article needs work but it’s a start

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thorndike

John Thorndike (February 23, 1611 or 1612 – interred 1668) was one of the first founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Other sources show his birth date as born February 1610/11.
Biography[edit]
Thorndike was a farmer and cowherd from Great Carlton, Lincolnshire, England. He and his wife Elizabeth Stratton may have been among the emigrants who sailed to America on the Arbella in 1630. Other sources indicate that John Thorndike emigrated to America in 1632 and that Elizabeth Stratton emigrated to America in 1635 along with her mother and brother. The Thorndikes settled in the area around Ipswich. They were the parents of seven children including Elizabeth Thorndike, who later became the second wife of John Proctor who was executed as a witch during the Salem Witch Trials.

I am connected to Elizabeth's daughter, Sarah. She married a Low.

https://www.geni.com/path/Chris-Ferraiolo+is+related+to+Elizabeth-T...

And it pretty much is clear sailing from there.

Wikipedia always needs work, Erica. =) But, that's besides the point!

And yeah. You told me about Elizabeth Thorndike who was executed. Oy....

An article:

English Ancestry of Anne (Derehaugh) Stratton, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 156:39.

Citations for Royal Ancestry etc

https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=39884+israel+thorndike&...

Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1783, 1812.
2 Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1361.
3 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 397, 529, 574.
4 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 924.

Nice! Thanks! =D

Sources added to Geni and Wikitree!