 Abt 1570 - Aft 1642 (> 73 years)
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| Name |
Katherine NYMONS |
| Birth |
Abt 1570 |
Norfolk, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Also Known As |
Rabbe, Rabey |
| Reference Number |
35558749 |
| Reference Number |
39166092 |
| Reference Number |
60 |
| WWW |
https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Nymons-1 |
| Death |
Aft 1642 |
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Person ID |
I542 |
Gummer |
| Last Modified |
1 Aug 2024 |
| Family |
William GRAFTON, b. Bef 14 Jun 1564, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England d. Bef 2 Feb 1610 (Age < 45 years) |
| Marriage |
15 Sep 1596 |
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England |
| Children |
| + | 1. Joseph GRAFTON, Sr, b. Bef 23 Sep 1604, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England d. 24 Jun 1682, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts (Age > 77 years) |
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| Family ID |
F118 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
1 Aug 2024 |
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| Notes |
- {{Puritan Great Migration|GMD||277}}
== Biography ==Katherine's origins are not yet known but a visual scan of the (only partially indexed) parish register of Great Yarmouth might reveal her baptismal record. Her birth is estimated at about 1570 given William Grafton's birth of 1565 and their marriage (first known) of 1596.
=== Marriage & Children ===William Grafton and Katherine Nymons were married at St. Nicholas Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on 15 September 1596.[Katheryn Nymons in 1596]
Norfolk Banns And MarriagesGreat Yarmouth, St Nicholas with St Peter, St John, St Andrew, St James, St Paul & St Luke, Norfolk, England [https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FNORFOLK%2FMAR%2F000624998%2F2 $subscription required] William's name has been written and transcribed as Grafton, Graston and Garton in various register entries. This couple had several children baptized at Great Yarmouth St. Nicholas:#[https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=R_874732846 John 14 Aug 1597] possibly the male of this name [https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FNORFOLK%2FBUR%2F001733280 buried 27 March 1626] who's probate likely appears as item [https://nrocatalogue.norfolk.gov.uk/index.php/grafton-john-of-great-yarmouth ANW 22/3/27] at the Norfolk Record Office online catalog as microfilm MF/RO 250/9.#[https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FNORFOLK%2FBAP%2F001909411 Elizabeth 19 Mar 1599] married Thomas Edwards 14 Jan 1626/27[Norfolk : Great Yarmouth : St Nicholas : Parish Register : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58183371e93790eb7f5b0b5d : viewed 14 Aug 2022) marriage Thomas Edwards to Elizab Grafton 14 Jan 1626/27]#[https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FNORFOLK%2FBAP%2F001909905 Abigail 7 Jan 1601] married John Taylor 28 Jan 1623/24 both listed as single.[Norfolk : Great Yarmouth : St Nicholas : Parish Register : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5818336ee93790eb7f5b07ff : viewed 15 Aug 2022) marriage John Taylor to Abigall Grafton 28 Jan 1623/24]#[[Grafton-13|Joseph Grafton]] baptized 23 September 1603 at St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk as son of William and Katherine Grafton.[St. Nicholas Great Yarmouth, Norfolk parish records at findmypast.co.uk 1603 baptism of Joseph Garton/Grafton [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fnorfolk%2fpd_28-1%2f00743 $subscription required]] #[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fnorfolk%2fpd_28-1%2f00748 William on 2 Nov 1606] who was presumably the one buried on 24 Dec 1607[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fnorfolk%2fpd_28-1%2f00748]#[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fnorfolk%2fpd_28-1%2f00753 Job on 13 Nov 1608] buried on [https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FNORFOLK%2FBUR%2F001713106 28 Nov 1608] and this is definitely not "Jos"#[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fnorfolk%2fpd_28-1%2f00754 William on 23 May 1610] 3 months after the death of his father. Married Elizabeth Reve 22 Dec 1633 at St. Nicholas.[Norfolk : Great Yarmouth : St Nicholas : Parish Register : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58183379e93790eb7f5b145c : viewed 14 Aug 2022) marriage William Grafton to Elizabeth Reve 22 Dec 1633] father of William Grafton son of William & Elizabeth baptized [https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FNORFOLK%2FBAP%2F001932501 19 June 1636]. Elizabeth was [https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FNORFOLK%2FBUR%2F001752473 buried as wife of William 14 April 1645]. A William Grafton son of William was [https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FNORFOLK%2FBUR%2F001780973 buried there 22 Dec 1648] with an age of "zero" and listed as an infant at freereg.org.uk but this may just mean there was no age entry in the findmypast database so possibly the child born in 1636.
Very few of these baptismal records are indexed for searching so it requires a manual search of parish records; this also applies to his siblings listed below. A visual review of the parish baptismal records uncovered no other "Grafton" couples having children at St. Nicholas Great Yarmouth during this decade.
William would seem to be the man of this name buried 2 Feb 1609/10 at St. Nicholas.[Norfolk : Great Yarmouth : St Nicholas : Parish Register : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58188ac8e93790ec754c76c2 : viewed 13 Aug 2022) burial William Grafton 02 Feb 1609/10]
After William's death, Katherine Grafton married Robert Rabey (also seen as "Rabbe") at St. Nicholas on 2 August 1613["England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NXB1-CTT : 13 March 2020), Robert Rabey, 1613.][Catherine Grafton in 1613 England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 Norfolk, England [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=GBPRS/NORFOLK/PD_28-1/00838 $subscription required]][Norfolk : Great Yarmouth : St Nicholas : Parish Register : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58183359e93790eb7f5aea6b : viewed 13 Aug 2022) marriage Robert Rabey to Katteren Grafton 02 Aug 1613] Robert "Raby" was buried 12 April 1632 at St. Nicholas Great Yarmouth.[Robert Raby in 1632 Norfolk Burials Great Yarmouth, St Nicholas with St Peter, St John, St Andrew, St James, St Paul & St Luke, Norfolk, England [https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FNORFOLK%2FBUR%2F001738323 $subscription required]]
=== Emigration to New England ===Katherine (as widow Rabey having outlived both William Grafton and Robert Rabey) traveled from Great Yarmouth to Salem, Massachusetts in 1637, explaining to the passenger licensing official at her examination on 12 April 1637 that she was "desirous to passe into New England there to Remaine with her Sone".[The original lists of persons of quality; emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England by Hotten, John Camden, 1832-1873 Publication date 1874 Publisher London:Hotten [https://archive.org/details/originallistsofp00hottuoft/page/306/mode/2up p. 292]][Barbara MacAllan, "The Great Yarmouth Company of Migrant Families," in ''NEHGR,'' 154 (2000):[https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image/?volumeId=11634&pageName=216&rId=143498391 215-216 $subscription required]] Anderson notes in the "Great Migration Directory" that she came either on the "John & Dorothy" or the "Rose".
=== Death & Estate ===Katherine was listed as a member of the first church of Salem, Massachusetts in 1642.[The records of the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, 1629-1736 by First Church (Salem, Mass.) Publication date 1974 Publisher Salem, Mass. Essex Institute 1642 entry for Katherine "Rabbe"[https://archive.org/details/recordsoffirstch00firs_0/page/10/mode/2up p. 11]] Her fate after that point has not been determined.
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