Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Lydia (WELLS)
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: 1638 b
  • Death: 17 Aug 1716 d


    • Parents:

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Abigail WELLS Birth: 1662

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Emerson, Benjamin Kendall, The Ipswich Emersons 1636-1900: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Emerson of Ipswich Massachusetts with some account of his English Ancestry, Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1900. LDS Film#1036803#8. Available at http://archive.org/details/ipswichemersonsa00emer Information from this source tagged as [Ref: EmersonBK EMERSON p[0-9]*].
  2. Emerson, Peter Henry, The English Emersons - A Genealogical Historical Sketch of the family from the earliest times to the end of the Seventeenth Century, including various modern pedigrees, with an appendix of authorities. London: David Nutt, 1898. LDS Film#0990427#1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/136547. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p[0-9]*].
  3. Potter, Charles Edward, Genealogies of the Potter Families and their Descendants in America to the Present Generation, with Historical and Biographical Sketches. Boston, MA:Alfred Mudge, 1888. UMI #G388. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogiesofpot00pott. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001597756. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: PotterCE POTTER p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: EmersonBK EMERSON p47]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: EmersonBK EMERSON p47]
1716 [Ref: EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p24]
Sources with Information about marriage to Nathaniel WELLS
date:
first marriage of Lydia (WELLS) [Ref: EmersonBK EMERSON p47],
names:
Nathaniel WELLS & Lydia ___ [Ref: EmersonBK EMERSON p47, PotterCE POTTER p1],
child:
[Ref: PotterCE POTTER p1]
Sources with Information about marriage to Nathaniel EMERSON
date:
second marriage of Nathaniel EMERSON [Ref: EmersonBK EMERSON p47],
names:
Nathaniel EMERSON & Lydia WELLS [Ref: EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p24]
Nathaniel EMERSON & Lydia widow of Nathaniel WELLS [Ref: EmersonBK EMERSON p47]
Research Notes:
Jul 3 1694: Edmund and Abigail Potter, Richard and Lydia Kimball, John and Sarah Day acknowledge receipt from their mother, Lydia Wells, alias Emerson, for their portion of the estate of their father, Nathaniel Wells, deceased. Essex Co Probate ccciii:240 [Ref: EmersonBK EMERSON p48]

agreement with children of former husband is recorded in Essex Registry of Deeds xii:18, dated Jun 18 1698 [Ref: EmersonBK EMERSON p47]



Pedigree of Lydia (WELLS)
Lydia (WELLS)



Descendants of Lydia (WELLS)
1. Lydia (WELLS) m1. Nathaniel WELLS m2. Nathaniel EMERSON
m. Nathaniel WELLS
m. Nathaniel EMERSON father: Thomas EMERSON mother: Elizabeth BREWSTER