Elizabeth Treadway

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Treadway was born on 3 April 1646, in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathaniel Treadway Jr, was 30 and her mother, Sufferance Haynes, was 25. She married Shadrach Hapgood on 21 October 1664, in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 18 September 1714, in her hometown, at the age of 68, and was buried in Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

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Family Time Line

Shadrach Hapgood
1642–1675
Elizabeth Treadway
1646–1714
Marriage: 21 October 1664
Rachel Hapgood
1660–1676
Nathaniel Hapgood
1665–1727
Mary Hapgood
1667–1692
Thomas Hapgood
1669–1764
Sarah Hapgood
1672–1746
Elizabeth Hapgood
1674–1711

Sources (38)

  • Elizabeth Treadaway, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
  • Elizabeth Treadway Hayward, "Find A Grave Index"

Name Meaning

English: nickname from Middle English treden ‘to tread, trample’ + wei(e) ‘way’, perhaps used for a vagrant or a well-traveled man.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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