Joyce Baker
Parents
Margaret Merry
Margaret Merry
1567 - 1617
Richard Baker
Richard Baker
1578 - 1604
Spouse
Nicholas Butler
Nicholas Butler
1595 - 1671
Children
 

Timeline

1602

birth


Ashford, Kent, England ⇓
She had a brother Thomas, and two sisters, Joan and Mary. Thomas Baker in his will 26 May 1626 speaks of his "sister Joys Butler," and Nicholas Butler is a witness. She is mentioned in both her father and her grandfather Christopher Merry's will. Henry Vanner of Canterbury mentioned her in his will as "Cousin Joyce, daughter of Richard Baker" and married to "Nicholas Butler".
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1602 Portuguese expelled from Bahrain.

1637


Age: 35y
The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and ..., Volume 15

immigration


Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA ⇓
On board the ship "the Hercules." Fellow passengers included Edward Johnson and his wife Susan, whose son Edward Johnson Jr. married a Catherine Baker in 1650.
In 1630, will of Henry Vanner, Alderman of the City of Canterbury, mentions cousin Joyce wife of Nicholas Butler of Ashford, daughter of Richard Baker deceased, and her son Henry. Henry Vanner's wife, Ursula Rooke, had relations with the Butler family through her aunt's marriage John Baker, who was the uncle of Thomas Baker, married to Griselda.
5 Sources ⇓
1637 Plymouth Colony grants the "tenn menn of Saugust" a new settlement on Cape Cod, later named Sandwich, Massachusetts.
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1657


Age: 55y
Joyce Baker - Dorchester Town Petition

event


Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA ⇓
Signed a petition along with other wives in Dorchester.
1 Source ⇓
1657 Christiaan Huygens writes the first book to be published on probability theory, De ratiociniis in ludo aleae ("On Reasoning in Games of Chance").

1679


Age: 77y

will


She mentions her grand-daughter "Hannah Chadduck."
(Hannah married James Chadwick.)
1 Source ⇓
1679 May 27 – In England, the "Habeas Corpus Parliament" (or "First Exclusion Parliament") meets. It is dissolved on July 12 while in recess by Royal prerogative to prevent it passing a Bill excluding the king's brother, the Catholic James, Duke of York, from the succession to the English throne as part of the Exclusion Crisis.

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