Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Baldwin was born on 6 October 1655, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Baldwin, was 19 and her mother, Hannah Birchard, was 21. She married Benjamin Abell Sr about 1669, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She died in November 1717, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 62, and was buried in Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Hannah Baldwin - birth: 6 October 1656; Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
- England, Pallot's Marriage Index, 1780-1837 for Stephen Loomer & Mary Leay??
- Hannah Baldwin Abell, "Find A Grave Index"
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1659
The town of Norwich was founded in 1659, on the site of what is now the neighborhood of Norwichtown, by settlers from Saybrook Colony
1667
The Old Norwichtown Burial ground was opened in the late 1600s and contains the gravesites for many of Norwich’s early European settlers marked now by their hand-crafted tombstones. These monuments can be counted as one of Norwich’s great treasures. According to Dr. James Slater, author and gravestone scholar, “Norwichtown contains beautiful examples of the work of all the eastern Connecticut master carvers and is a treasure not to be missed. This is one of the truly “antient” burying grounds of eastern Connecticut.” Sadly, several hundred years of New England’s weather has had an eroding effect on Norwichtown’s historic tombstones. Many have become unreadable, some are broken or leaning over, while others are covered in moss and lichen. The Norwich Historical Society, in concert with the Norwich Public Works Dept. has begun a program to clean and reset these historic burial markers with the goal of preserving the Old Norwichtown Burial Ground, so that it may continue to be enjoyed and studied...
Name Meaning
English and North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements bald ‘bold, brave’ + wine ‘friend’, which was extremely popular among the Normans and in Flanders in the early Middle Ages. It was the personal name of the Crusader who in 1100 became the first Christian king of Jerusalem, and of four more Crusader kings of Jerusalem. It was also borne by Baldwin, Count of Flanders (1172–1205), leader of the Fourth Crusade, who became first Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1204). In North America, this surname has absorbed Dutch forms such as Boudewijn.
Irish: surname adopted in Donegal by bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Maolagáin (see Milligan ), due to association of Gaelic maol ‘bald, hairless’ with English bald.
History: A John Baldwin from Buckinghamshire, England, arrived in the US in 1638 and settled in Milford, CT.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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