Family: Robert ROYCE / Mary UNKNOWN (F4872)

• Male Robert ROYCE

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1603	ENGLAND
  Death	22 Sep 1676	New London, New London, CT
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  Female Mary UNKNOWN

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1609
  Death	4 Jul 1697	New London, New London, CT
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  Female Sarah ROYCE

  
  

  Birth	1634
  Death	1 May 1711	Norwich, New London, CT
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  Spouse	John CALKINS | F1787
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  Male Nehemiah ROYCE

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1636
  Death	12 Dec 1706	Wallingford, New Haven, CT
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  Spouse	Hannah MORGAN | F4873
  Marriage	20 Nov 1660  [1]	New London, New London, CT  [1]

  
  

  Male Jonathan ROYCE

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1637
  Death	Jul 1690	Norwich, New London, CT
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  Spouse	Mary SPINNING | F4874
  Marriage	Jun 1656	Norwich, New London, CT

  
  

  Male Ensign Ensign Samuel ROYCE

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1638	CT
  Death	24 Dec 1711	Wallingford, New Haven, CT
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  Spouse	Sarah BALDWIN | F4875
  Marriage	6 Jun 1690	Wallingford, New Haven, CT

  
  

  Male Ensign Ensign Nathaniel ROYCE

  
  

  Birth	24 Mar 1639	Wallingford, New Haven, CT
  Death	8 Feb 1726	Wallingford, New Haven, CT
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  Spouse	Esther MOSS | F4876
  Marriage	27 Oct 1673	Wallingford, New Haven, CT
  Spouse	Sarah LATHROP | F4871
  Marriage	21 Apr 1681
  Spouse	Hannah WILCOXSON | F4877
  Marriage	24 Aug 1707	Wallingford, New Haven, CT
  Spouse	Abigail COOK | F4879
  Marriage	25 Aug 1708	Wallingford, New Haven, CT

  
  

  Male Isaac ROYCE

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1643	CT
  Death	1681
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  Female Ruth ROYCE

  
  

  Birth	7 Dec 1645	Wallingford, New Haven, CT
  Death	19 Feb 1690
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  Spouse	Sergt. Sergt. Abraham DOOLITTLE | F4882
  Marriage	12 Feb 1689	Wallingford, New Haven, CT

  
  

• Notes

  Married: 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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