- Clarence Leslie Hewitt, Jr., argues in his article “Some light on the marriage of Robert and Mary Royce of Connecticut” in New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg. 122 (1968): 274-277 that Mary, Robert’s wife was not Mary Sims, Simms, or Symmes, of Long Sutton, Somerset. There was a Robert Royce who married a Mary Sims in Long Sutton on 4 Jun 1624. Hewitt says the “1624 wedding hardly works out, credibly or chronologically, with their emigration to America or the birthday of their first born. ... It would therefore seem most unlikely that Robert and Mary would have remained continent or been barren from 1624 to 1634 or that all their children born in that decade could have perished in infancy.” It remains a possibility, though, that they could have been married in 1624 and all their children from the first ten years died.
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| Children |
| | 1. Sarah ROYCE, b. 1634 d. 1 May 1711, Norwich, New London, CT  (Age 77 years) |
| | 2. Nehemiah ROYCE, b. Abt 1636 d. 12 Dec 1706, Wallingford, New Haven, CT (Age 70 years) |
| | 3. Jonathan ROYCE, b. Abt 1637 d. Jul 1690, Norwich, New London, CT (Age 53 years) |
| | 4. Ensign Ensign Samuel ROYCE, b. Abt 1638, CT d. 24 Dec 1711, Wallingford, New Haven, CT (Age 73 years) |
| | 5. Ensign Ensign Nathaniel ROYCE, b. 24 Mar 1639, Wallingford, New Haven, CT d. 8 Feb 1726, Wallingford, New Haven, CT (Age 86 years) |
| | 6. Isaac ROYCE, b. Abt 1643, CT d. 1681 (Age 38 years) |
| | 7. Ruth ROYCE, b. 7 Dec 1645, Wallingford, New Haven, CT d. 19 Feb 1690 (Age 44 years) |
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Abt 1603 - 1676 (73 years)
