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Joseph Redknap

c. 1597Essex County, Massachusetts

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Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37183073

Birth:1597, England
Death:Jan. 23, 1685
Lynn
Essex County
Massachusetts, USA

Born about 1597 (deposed 27 April 1657 “aged about sixty;” deposed 29 November 1670 “aged between seventy and eighty years).
Died in Lynn MA, 23 January 1685/6. (On 22 [sic] January 1685[/6], “Joseph Redknap of Lin buried, being about 110 years old; was a wine-cooper in London, was about 30 years old at the Great Frost. Ralph King teste.” Sewall’s informant has inflated the decedent’s age by twenty years, as Savage noted.)
Married by about 1642 _____ _____.
Some records for the Redknap family have been found in England, confirming the origin of this immigrant in Hampton, Middlesex. The surviving bishops’ transcripts for Hampton, Middlesex, include the baptisms of “Elizabeth the daughter of Steven Redknap and of Jean his wife xviiijth March” 1629/30 and of “Lucie the daughter of Steeven Redknap & of Jean his wife . Maij 16” 1639 and the burial of “Willi[am] Redknap a poor man” on 5 July 1639. In his will of 27 August 1635, “Beniamine Redknape of Shadwell in the parish of Stebinheath alias Stepney in the County of Midd[lesex], cooper,” contained bequests to “Anne Beamont,” to “my loving brother William Redknape of Shadwell in the parish and county aforesaid, shipwright,” and to “my two brothers Stephen Redknape and Joseph Redknape,” and referred to “my copyhold in Hampton upon Thames lying in the West Field in the County of Middlesex.”Family links:
Spouse:
Wife Redknap
Burial:
Unknown
Created by: Linda Mac
Record added: May 17, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 37183073

Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37183075

Joseph Redknap married by about 1642 _____ _____.
They had four children: Hannnah Nicholson, Benjamin, Nathaniel, & Sarah Laughton (or Laighton).
Joseph Redknap would have been about forty-five years old when his first child was born. No record has been found which provides the name of his wife, and she is mentioned in only one record, when Joseph was presented at court in 1644 for refusing to have his child baptized. In his 1914 treatment of the Belknap family of Lynn, while discussing a document which at one point confused the surnames Belknap and Redknap, Henry Wyckoff Belknap made the unsupported claim that “Joseph Rednap married Sarah, dau[ghter] of Thomas Laughton.” Thomas Laughton married at Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, on 3 July 1632 Sarah Lenthall, and so could not have had a daughter old enough to be the wife of Joseph Redknap. Furthermore, Thomas Laughton Junior married a daughter of Joseph Redknap, who would have been his niece if Redknap had married a daughter of Thomas Laughton Senior. We conclude that the claim that Joseph Redknap married a daughter of Thomas Laughton Senior derives from confusion with the known marriage of Thomas Laughton Junior to Sarah Redknap, and that the identity of the wife of Joseph Redknap remains unknown.

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