Deacon Nathan Aldis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Christening: 17 Sep 1592 - Dennington, Suffolk, England
Death: 15 Mar 1676 - Dedham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
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Parents
Father: Francis Aldous (1560-1625)
Mother: Sarah Gooch (1565- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary (1593 - )
Marriage: Abt 1622 - Fressingfield, Suffolk, England
Status:
Children:
1. John Aldis (1627-1700)
2. Marie Aldis (1623-1653)
3. Ann Aldis (1626- )
Notes
General:
Myrtle Stevens Hyde, Corrected Ancestry for Nathan Aldus of early Dedham, Massachusetts. NEHGR, 1996, 473-94
1910 NEHGR article is sound from Nathan to his great grandfather Robert Aldus. 1910 NEHGR article Genealogical Research in England pp 240-48 (July)
In 1910 article Thomas Aldhouse of Stradbroke, died aftt 30 Nov 1499, m Joane, d aft 24 Apr 1505.
Thomas specifically bequeaths to son Robert and daugther Agnes, and to Robert's son John, and his grandson Thomas the son of said Robert.
Said Robert of Stradbroke died in Jul 1507, married to Margaret.
He bequeaths to his son John, who is under 21, then to his son Thomas, who is under 21 and apparently younger than John, and mentions that Thomas had a bequest from his grandfather; then to his son Robert, who inherits after Thomas and must be younger, and so on for as many sons as he has.
There is no question that John, Thomas and Robert are sons of Robert.
However, in the 1996 NEHGR article, Hyde argues that that conclusion is incorrect. Other records show that Robert and Thomas were brothers but that their father was William of Fressingfield (village adjacent to Stradbroke).
She shows that Robert and Thomas are placed in the wrong family; a different Robert and Thomas go in this family. Robert and Thomas ancestors of Nathan were sons of William of Fressingfield.
Nathan and Mary made their home in Fressingfield, Suffolk, until apparently May 1635, for an entry in the Fressingfield Tithe Book on May 4 of that year notes that Nathan Aldous is "to goe out of town at May". In his brother John's will, 26 Jul 1639, Nathan is named as living "over the sea".
The earliest known record of Nathan "over the sea" - in Dedham, Massachusetts - is his admission to the Dedham church on 11 Feb 1639/40. Mary, wife of "brother Alldys" was admitted 11 Mary 1640/1. They both died in Dedham.
Three children were found christened at Fressingfield. Of Anne there is no further record, and only Marie and John came with their parents to New England.
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Social Cohesion in Early New England. NEHGR, 1992.
The leaders of the group who founded Dedham, Massachusetts, were a tightly-woven extended family of yeoman status, from the neighborhood of the dairying and weaving village of Fressingfield in the wood-pasture region of High Suffolk. The Aldous household was linked to the Brocks by Elizabeth Aldous's marriage to Henry Brock, who in turn was probalby related to John Brock, later minister of Reading, Massachsuetts. One of the emigrant Chickering brothers, Francis, who became Dedham's military ensign, was married to the sister of John Fiske, founder of Wenham and Chemsford, Massachusetts. Fiske's wife was sister of Meribah (Gibbs) Folger, ancestress of Benjamin Franklin, who left Diss, just over teh Norfolk border, in 1635 with her husband John and one child. The Fisher brothers, Anthony and Joshua, were likewise connected to teh Fiske clan through their mother Mary (Fiske) Fisher. In Dedham, Joshua Fisher, Jr., a blacksomith, married Mary, the daugther of Deacon nathaniel Aldous. Aldous, Fisher, Fiske and Brock families, along with felllow emigrant families Barber adn Lusher, are known from probate evidence to have been settled in the Fressingfield area of Suffolk for generations. Tehse people quickly became leaders of the community in Dedham, surviving on average for thirty-four years there and providing a sense of cohesion and continuity from their homes in the old world to the new.