Walter Gilbert Genealogy: Jeffery Hanford & Eglin Hatherly

2596–2597. Jeffery Hanford was born in Fremington, Devonshire, England, in 1583, and died in Alverdiscott Parish, Fremington, Devonshire, England, on May 12, 1626. Eglin Hatherly was born in England in 1587-1588. They were married in Fremington on Sunday, March 31, 1611. She took the name Eglin Hanford. She is the daughter of Robert and Elinor (Tanner) Hatherly. They had five children:

i.	Susannah Hanford was born in England in 1615, and died after 1682. She married John Whiston in about 1635 then William Brooks in about 1640, both in Scituate.
ii.	Lettice Hanford was born in Alverdiscott, county Devon, England, and died in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, on February 22, 1690/91. She married Edward Foster on April 8, 1635; performed by Miles Standish. His name also appears as Edward Faunce. She married Edward Jenkins after 1644.
iii.	Margaret Hanford was born in England in 1619, and died in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on June 13, 1649. She married Isaac Robinson in 1636. She had a daughter who was born and died on June 6, 1649; her death was probably related to this. Isaac married a second time in 1650 to Mary Faunce, Margaret's brother-in-law's sister.
iv.	Elizabeth Hanford was born in England in 1621, and died in Massachusetts in 1708.
v.	Thomas Hanford [#1298]: He was born in Alverdiscott Parish on July 22, 1621, and died in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1693.

Devonshire, England; Blue cross marks Alverdiscott

Alverdiscott is a parish in Fremington Hundred, the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple and Diocese of Exeter, 6 miles southwest of Barnstaple, Devonshire, England.

Eglin (Hatherly) Hanford came to America in April of 1634 with two of her children, Margaret and Elizabeth, from Sudbury in Suffolk County, England, on the ship Planter at age 46. Susannah and Lettice accompanied their uncle, Timothy Hatherly to the colonies, first on the William and Francis on March 9, 1632, from London to Barnstaple, Devonshire; thence on the Charles to Plymouth, Massachusetts, on April 10, 1632.

In The Pioneers of Massachusetts it is written that Eglin Hanford was admitted to the congregation in Scituate on November 21, 1635. Her brother was Timothy Hatherly who founded the town of Scituate on the coast of what is now Massachusetts.

Sources:

Jacobus, Donald Lines, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (reprinted with corrections), Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991 (1930); vol. 1, p.256
Robinson Genealogical Society Robinson Genealogy: Descendants of the Reverend John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrims, vol. 1: CS/71/R66/1926/v.1
Tepper, Michael (editor) Passangers to America, Baltimore, Genealogy Publishing Co., 1977, p. 20.
Banks, The Planters of the Commonwealth, Boston, Houghton-Miffen Co., 1930.
The New England History and Genealogical Register 52:762.
Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hanford,by August Golding, Norwalk, Ct.3.
Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hanford vol. II Paula W. Prindle FASG editor, 1981, Stamford Gen. Soc., Inc., Stamford, Ct.
Hurd, D. Hamilton, History of Fairfield County, Connecticut, J.W. Lewis & Co., 1881, Philadelphia.

The last four references are from Andrea _____, August, 1999.