Jim Ward's Genealogy Pages
The Baldwin Connection
NOTE: My listing of Edward Fenn as a child of Benjamin and Sarah Baldwin Fenn has been questioned, so I did a bit of digging and came to realize that I relied on LDS data submitted by people with no listed email addresses. I now have to write them and request their sources to verify the connection.
One who questioned the connection gave me info on the known children of Benjamin & Sarah, but has not revealed her sources yet. According to her, the children are:
- Benjamin, 1640 - 1689
- Joseph, 1642 - 1671
- Sarah, 1645 - ?
- Mary, 1647 - 1671/72
- Martha, 1650 - ?
If anyone can prove the parentage of Edward Fenn, born about 1644 in CT., please email me! It's embarrassing having misleading, inaccurate, or downright wrong genealogy information!
Sarah Baldwin's marriage to Benjamin Fenn in 1638 was my connection to the Baldwin Family, one that the author of several books on the surname has traced back to the late 12th century. Author Charles Candee Baldwin writes that "most of the Baldwins in the U.S.A. are descended from from those in Buckinghamshire, near Hertfordshire and of Oxfordshire, which shires join Bucks. The name occurred before the conquest in the immediate vicinity of the Baldwins of Bucks."
Surnames were not in general use until after the Conquest, during the time of William the Conqueror. The author's information on the Baldwins gets specific with the name Richard Baldwin, whose will was made in 1552/3. other sources have Richard being born in 1503, to John Baldwin and Agnes Dormer. John's parents are listed as William Baldwin and Jane Aylesbury, and Agnes' father as William Dormer.
One of John's sons was named Richard, whom had a son named Henry, whom named one of his sons Sylvester. His son, also named Sylvester, was the father of Sarah Baldwin. Sarah, her mother Sarah Bryan, and father made the trip to the new world on the ship Martin, where Sarah's father died enroute on 21 June 1638. Author Baldwin writes that Sarah Bryan was the daughter of Alexander Bryan. C. C. Baldwin wrote this book in 1889. At that time, he was President of The Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio.
| William Baldwin, b. 1441 | Jane Aylesbury, b. 1443 |
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| John Baldwin, b. 11 August 1470. d. 24 October 1545 | Agnes Dormer, b. about 1482 |
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| Richard Baldwin, b. 1503? Will dated 1552/3. He and wife Ellen had 7 children: Henry, John, Richard, Alice, Agnes, Cicely, and Lettice. | Ellen Pooke or Apoke, b. 1507 |
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| Henry Baldwin, b. 1529, d. 1 June 1602 | Alice Kinge, b. 1533, d. 23 November 1626 |
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| Sylvester Baldwin, b. 1560, d. 16 February 1632. Married 28 September 1590. | Jane Wells, b. 1571/1573, d. 10 November 1669, in Milford, New Haven, Ct. |
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| Sylvester Baldwin, b. about. 1590, d. 21 June 1638. Married in 1620. | Sarah Bryan, b. 25 August 1602, d. 20 November 1669. M. second - Capt. John Astwood |
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| Sarah Baldwin, b. 22 April 1621, d. 29 April 1663, m. 1638? | Benjamin Fenn, b. 1612, d. 14 September 1672. |
Notes:
Recent information revealed an interesting connection between my father's Baldwin and Fenn lines to my mother's Beach and Royce lines. It's a complicated mess! See if you can explain it!
Click here for a jpeg image of Sarah Baldwin's ancestral home, Dundridge. Thanks go to Bill Fenn for supplying this image!
Here are two pix of a stained glass window in St. Michael's Church in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, commemorating my Baldwin ancestors. It was installed by American Baldwin descendants sometime in the 1960s.
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Text: To the Glory of God and in memory of Robert Baldwin and his descendants who lived at Dundridge manor in this parish - 1520 1638. And those who emigrated to New England with Sylvester Baldwin. Click the picture for a full-sized view (92kb). |
These photos were taken by Lt. Colonel Rolland Thomas Baldwin, USAF (Ret.). A big thanks go to Tom Glassel for sending me the information and permission to publish the pix here!
Sources:
Baldwin Genealogy, 1500 - 1881, by Charles Candee Baldwin.
FamilySearch.org ancestral files and pedigree charts.
Research by Bill Fenn.
Disclaimer: Some of this information may not be accurate, but it's the best I have at this time! Email me if you have corrections!
