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Not the daughter of Mathias ‘the chandler’ Sension, Sr.
Updated 3 June 2024
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sangins-1
NOTE: There is no record of a daughter Susanna or Elizabeth St. John who some have claimed married colonial immigrant Walter Hoyt. Matthias had no such daughter; Walter Hoyt had no such wife.[8]
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-376279
This profile represents the first wife of Walter Hoyt, early immigrant to Connecticut. Her first name and maiden names are unknown, and we do not know her parents.[1] She is assumed to have been born in England, as were most of the early immigrants to Massachusetts and Connecticut.
The birth date is an estimate, based on her approximate marriage date.
Marriage and Children
She married by about 1642 (eldest child born c. 1642) to Walter Hoyt.[1] She must have died by about 1652 when Walter married, as his second, to Rhoda (Tinker) Hobbs Taylor.[1]
Children of Walter Hoyt and his first wife (name unknown):
Question: Is the first wife of Walter Hoyt actually Elizabeth St. John?
The first wife of Walter Hoyt is often said to be Elizabeth St. John (aka Sension), a sister of Mathias Sension Sr.[4][5] Note that this relationship is not accepted by Anderson in his Great Migration series or Jacobus in his Families of Old Fairfield.[6][7]
So what is the evidence:
So, if Mathias Sension Sr called Walter Hoyt his "dearly beloved brother," and Mathias Sension jr was given land next to "uncle Hoite," is the best solution that Walter Hoyt must have married a sister of Mathias Sension Sr? It turns out there are problems with this and better solutions.
Problems and solution:
Though Mathias Sension and Walter Hoyt were clearly related somehow the relationship is not clearly stated or proven. It is just as possible that Mathias and Walter had married sisters, as the terms uncle and brother would have this meaning in the 17th century.
The English origins of Mathias Sension have been identified and published.[8][9] He was the son of Christopher Sension of St. Olave Silver Street parish in London. The parish records at St. Olave Silver Street and the will of Christopher Sension show that he had four surviving sons and no surviving daughters. Mathias Sension had no sisters who could have been the wife of Walter Hoyt.
The relationship is explained by the fact that they did marry sisters.[10] The second wife of Walter Hoyt has been identified as Rhoda Tinker, while the wife of Mathias Sension was Mary Tinker. They are both daughters of Robert Tinker and Mary Merwin.
!sister of Mathias St. John
!From research by Lola Sorenson
!Also s.p. 20 Nov 1965 LOGAN
1620 |
1620
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England
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1631 |
November 6, 1631
Age 11
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St. Botolph, Bishop's Gate, London, England (United Kingdom)
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1644 |
July 13, 1644
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Windsor, Connecticut
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1647 |
1647
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1649 |
1649
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Norwalk, Connecticut, British Colonial America
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1652 |
1652
Age 32
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FaIrfield County., Connecticut
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1941 |
January 10, 1941
Age 32
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May 27, 1941
Age 32
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1960 |
November 20, 1960
Age 32
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