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Title: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA **COMPLETED**
Post by: Muffin41 on Friday 22 May 09 13:44 BST (UK)
I have been asked if I can find any information about the ancestors of the CURTIS family who emigrated to Scituate Massachusetts in the late 17th century.

The information I have been given is as follows:

Thomas CURTIS born and died in Kent England.

Son Richard CURTIS born ca 1621 in Kent, emigrated to the U.S. ( year not known)
His children: ALL born in Scituate Mass.

1) Hannah (Anna) Curtis born May 12 1649

2) Elizabeth Curtis  born Jan 12 1651 - married Nathaniel BROOKS

3) John Curtis born Dec 1653 - married Miriam BROOKS

4) Mary Curtis born Jan 9 1655 - married a Mr Babcock?

5) Martha Curtis born Mar 17 1657 - married Thomas CLARKE Jan 11 1676

6) Thomas Curtis born Mar 18 1659 - married Mary COOKE 1694
THEIR children were:
a) Deborah,
b) Ruth,
c) Mary,
d) Thomas                      and another
e) Ruth (I presume the first Ruth died young.)
The descendants of Thomas and Mary lived in Scituate, Abington and Hanover Mass.

7) Deborah Curtis born April 16 1661

Can anyone help with ANY information about the family CURTIS who live in Scituate?

Muffin41
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA
Post by: Muffin41 on Friday 22 May 09 15:28 BST (UK)
I have found the following lead on www.familysearch.org

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Also, Richard CURTIS father was William born ca 1593 in Ash parish near Sandwich in Kent England

Hope tis helps further....

Muffin
 
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA
Post by: Genealiza on Saturday 23 May 09 02:16 BST (UK)
Are you in the US?  If so, I can send you a link that may give you some more information on your Curtises.  Let me know if you can't open this, and I will forward the information via PM.

 http://tiny.cc/Pgc0C

It is from a book by William Cutter, relating to the families of Massachusetts

Here is another entry from a different journal with Richard's first wife.  (this first wife, Ann, is disputed in the link below on John Hallet)

http://tiny.cc/83bZd

And here is one that gives references.  Scroll down to Richard Curtis.

http://www.tributaries.us/secondsite/founders2-o/p458.htm#i4578


Another link with the will of John Hallet, father in law of Richard Curtis.


http://www.scituatehistoricalsociety.org/families/HalletJohn.htm

And from the same website, information on Richard Curtis.

http://www.scituatehistoricalsociety.org/families/CurtisRichard.htm

More from the History of Scituate, Mass by Samuel Deane

http://tiny.cc/UQ627

There may be more, just google search, Richard Curtis or Curtice and Scituate.
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA
Post by: Lisa in California on Saturday 23 May 09 02:21 BST (UK)
Also, another link:
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr01/rr01_092.htm
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA
Post by: Muffin41 on Saturday 23 May 09 15:18 BST (UK)
Thank you for the links, these help fill in some details of what happened to the family after they left England.

The Curtis family lived in Nazing Essex England and son Thomas married in Kent before emigrating to Massachusetts.

Another son, William Curtis, born 1592, married Sarah Elliot August 6 1618 and died March 27 1673 in Roxbury Suffolk Massachusetts.

John Curtis, born 1590, died 1639 in Roxbury Suffolk Mass.

Thomas Curtis born Jan 21 1594 died Nov 13 1681 in Hatfield Hampshire Mass.

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 William Curtis, born 1545 in Nazing Essex, married Agnes (unknown) in 1493.

One of their children, John Curtis born Sept 15 1577 died 1639 in Wethersfield Hartford CT. He married Elizabeth Hutchinson, marriage April 19 1610. Elizabeth died 1658 in Stratford Fairfield CT.

Can anyone confirm?

Muffin
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA
Post by: Genealiza on Saturday 23 May 09 17:25 BST (UK)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~walkersj/JohnCurtis.htm

This says her will was proved 4 June 1658
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA
Post by: Muffin41 on Saturday 23 May 09 19:14 BST (UK)
Thank you again for the link for John Curtis.
This has much valuable information for further research.

Muffin :)
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA
Post by: Genealiza on Saturday 23 May 09 21:01 BST (UK)
This link is to digital books provided by BYU.

http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php

If you go scroll down to the "advanced search", put John Curtis in the "exact phrase", and Wethersfield in one of the other 2 selections.  You might be interested in the 2nd book that pops up; "A Genealogy of the Curtiss Family Being a Record of the Descendants of the Widow Elizabeth Curtiss, Who Settled in Stratford, Conn. 1639-40"; by Frederic Haines Curtiss, 1903.
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA
Post by: Genealiza on Saturday 23 May 09 21:25 BST (UK)
And here is a link to the Curtis - Curtiss family genealogical society.  You might find some helpful links here.

http://www.curtis-curtiss.com/
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA
Post by: Muffin41 on Monday 25 May 09 10:33 BST (UK)
Thank you again, this is a very good link with lots of information. :)

Muffin41 :D
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA **COMPLETED**
Post by: prostreetcobra on Thursday 13 August 09 07:47 BST (UK)
I found this in my Curtis/Curtiss Genealogy book:

There is new data on the Scituate Curtis Family. Thomas Curtis died and was buried Dec. 11, 1631 at Ashe-Juxta-Sandwich, Kent, England, leaving widow Richardene and sons Thomas, John, Richard and William and Daughter Elizabeth, wife of Richard Banks. (She m. 2nd William Blackmore and 3rd Jacob Bumpas.) The widow Richardene m. 2nd May 25, 1632 to Thomas Chambers and removed to Scituate, Mass. with the five Curtis Children.
I hope this helps, Kathy
okay, found this;

William Curtis, m. Agnes, he d. Nazing, Essex, England May 17, 1585; they had children;
Thomas, Edward, Gabriel, John, Mary.
Thomas married Mary Camp, they had children; Martha, Thomas, Mary, Elizabeth William.
William married Sarah Eliot and they have children William, Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Phillip, Sarah, Hanna, Isaac.

Now John, of (William Curtis and Agnes) he marries Elizabeth Hutchins and they have John Jr., William and Thomas.

I found a John that settled in Scituate, Mass., in 1640; probably brother of Thomas, Richard and William, of Scituate.

Richard Curtis sesttled in Scituate, Mass., in 1640, probably with his brothers John, Thomas, and William. He removed to Marblehead, Mass., in 1648, but returned to Scituate the following year; ,. Ann, d. of John Hallet, in 1649; m. 2nd, Lydia. He d. in Scituate, Mass., in 1693. His descendants are found in Scituate and Hanover, Mass. His children are;
Ann, Elizabeth, John, Mary, Martha, Thomas, Deborah, Sarah.

Thomas Curtis, settled in York, Maine, and in 1648 removed to Scituate, Mass., but in 1663 returned to York, Maine. Says he married ?, they had children;
Elizabeth, Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph.

William Curtis, settled in Scituate in 1643; probably brother of Richard, John, and Thomas; m?, His descendants are found in Scituate, Hanover, and Boston, Mass.
His children are; Joseph, Benjamin, William, John, Miriam, Mehitabel, Stephen, Sarah, Samuel.

Does this help? Kathy
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA **COMPLETED**
Post by: Muffin41 on Thursday 13 August 09 13:36 BST (UK)
Thank you for the additional information which you have found.

This helps a lot.

Muffin
Title: Re: Thomas Curtis´ Ancestors living in Scituate MA **COMPLETED**
Post by: prostreetcobra on Thursday 13 August 09 22:32 BST (UK)
Your welcome, check out Curtis/Curtiss Society web site. WWW.Curtis-Curtiss.com Kathy