This was so interesting! I have a John Winthrop the Younger obsession: he married into my family and treated still other members of my family in Hartford (they'd been kidnapped by Indians and escaped: one had been hit hard in the head by her captors). You're right about the Puritans of Essex intermarrying: I believe I've discovered why Winthrop married Elizabeth Reade the second time round, a connection through yet another Essex family. A very good read!
Interesting - and thanks! Have you come across Robert Harris's novel Act of Oblivion? A great story rooted in events from 1660, and partly set in Hartford.
Re Elizabeth Cromwell. As her daughter, Elizabeth's descendants included the Earls of Roden, who settled in Co. Louth, I assume that they didn't publicise THAT part of the family history!!! Kept very schtum. Sylvia
This was so interesting! I have a John Winthrop the Younger obsession: he married into my family and treated still other members of my family in Hartford (they'd been kidnapped by Indians and escaped: one had been hit hard in the head by her captors). You're right about the Puritans of Essex intermarrying: I believe I've discovered why Winthrop married Elizabeth Reade the second time round, a connection through yet another Essex family. A very good read!
Interesting - and thanks! Have you come across Robert Harris's novel Act of Oblivion? A great story rooted in events from 1660, and partly set in Hartford.
I have not, but it sounds like a novel I must add to my Must Read list; thank you for mentioning it!
This was a great read. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you!
This is a good read. I highly recommend Ronald Hutton's recent biographies on Cromwell, if y0u haven't read them yet.
Thank you. A historian friend has recommended them too – something else to add to the long reading list life generates!
Oliver Cromwell is my 3rd cousin through his daughter Elizabeth. A very fair & balanced essay.
Thank you – that's a great family connection! I really warmed to them both from exploring this.
Re Elizabeth Cromwell. As her daughter, Elizabeth's descendants included the Earls of Roden, who settled in Co. Louth, I assume that they didn't publicise THAT part of the family history!!! Kept very schtum. Sylvia
Wow, yes!
Oh very interesting!