Barrett, Margaret
1595 - 1661 (65 years)-
Name Barrett, Margaret Birth 29 Sep 1595 Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom 
Christening 29 Sep 1595 Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom Gender Female Residence Between 1598 and 1928 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Arrival 15 Jun 1633 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States - Aboard the Ship Elizabeth Bonaventure II. She and her children settled in Roxury after husband's death.
Find A Grave Founders Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States 54150130 LifeSketch - PLEASE "DO NOT" CHANGE ANY OF THIS INFORMATION!!! Someone keeps adding William Huntington as one of the children Margaret Barrett had with Simon Huntington, Sr. Simon had a first marriage, around 1621 in England & William is from that relationship. Source: The Huntington Family In America 1633-1915 Page #11 & #15. [WATCH OUT for this source because it contains the fraudulent Gustave Anjou English pedigree dismissed by Jacobus and by The Great Migration Begins.] (With respect to the parentage of William the evidence is meagre. Huntington Genealogy 1915 Huntington Family Association Hartford Connecticut 1 Simon Huntington Simon Huntington was PROBABLY married once before his marriage with Margaret Baret, June 21, 1627, thought of this it is IMPOSSIBLE TO SPEAK WITH CERTAINTY. 1.1 William Huntington With respect to the parentage of William the evidence is meagre. William “MIGHT WELL” have been a son of Simon by a first wife, who died before his marriage to Margaret Baret.) Margaret Barrett was daughter of Christopher Barrett, mayor of Norwich in 1634. In 1649 her brother Peter Barrett wrote to her son Christopher regarding a legacy due to "yourself [Christopher], Symon, Thomas and Ann" from their grandfather. In 1671 another of her brothers, Thomas Barrett, spoke of his sister "Margaret who married to one Symond Huntington who carried her to New England & had several children by her; but we can give no account of her or them, yet think that she & several of her children are living there" Margaret Barrett married (1) at St. Andrew's, Norwich, Norfolk, 11 May 1623, to Simon Huntington. She was admitted to Roxbury church as member #83: "Margret Huntington widdow; she came in the year 1633. Her husband died by the way of small pox; she brought children with her." They had five children: Christopher, Thomas, Ann, Simon, & Henry. She married (2) shortly after December 1634 THOMAS STOUGHTON of Dorchester (and later Windsor) as his 2nd wife (in his letter of December 1634 to his stepfather Rev. John Stoughton, James Cudworth of Scituate reported that "my uncle Thomas is to be married shortly, to a widow that has good means and has five children." There were no children of this marriage. She died after 14 March 1665/6, when John Winthrop Jr. treated "Mrs. Stoughton, Margaret, of Winsor" Source: Anderson'sGreat Migration Study Project (obtained from findagrave.com)
Verified Yes - Research _AMTID 122722689466:1030:207924248 _COLOR 21 _COLOR1 19 _FSFTID KCMK-1RG _UID C279C2E5A555434DB3B9729B6C5C7105232F Death 25 Mar 1661 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Cause: Age: 65 Burial Founders Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States Person ID I773 Charles Banks and Jon Ray Family Tree Last Modified 22 Jan 2026
Father Barrett, Christopher Sr, b. 13 Apr 1562, Westhall, Suffolk, England d. 22 Aug 1649, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (Age 87 years) Mother Clarke, Elizabeth, b. Apr 1564, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom d. 1650, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (Age 85 years) Marriage 16 Sep 1588 Mancroft, Norwich, Norfolk, England Family ID F232 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Huntington, Simon, b. 7 Aug 1583, England d. 11 May 1633, Norwich, Atlantic Ocean, England (Age 49 years) Marriage 11 May 1623 Saint Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, England Children 1. Huntington, Thomas, b. 1623, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom d. 1685, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States (Age 62 years)2. Huntington, Christopher Sr, b. 25 Jul 1624, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom d. 1691, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 66 years)3. Huntington, William, b. 1627, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom d. 1689, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 62 years)4. Huntington, Anne, b. 6 Sep 1627, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom d. 1649, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (Age 21 years)5. Huntington, Deacon Deacon Simon, b. 6 May 1629, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom d. 28 Jun 1706, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America (Age 77 years)6. Huntington, Henry, b. 1631, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom d. 6 Aug 1632, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (Age 1 year)Family ID F236 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Family 2 Stoughton, Rev Thomas, b. 9 Jul 1588, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 25 Mar 1661, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (Age 72 years) Marriage Abt 1635 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Family ID F237 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Birth - 29 Sep 1595 - Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom 
Christening - 29 Sep 1595 - Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom 
Residence - Between 1598 and 1928 - Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States 
Marriage - 11 May 1623 - Saint Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, England Arrival - 15 Jun 1633 - Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States 
Find A Grave - 54150130 - - Founders Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States 
Marriage - Abt 1635 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States 
Death - Cause: Age: 65 - 25 Mar 1661 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Burial - - Founders Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Rev. John John Eliot, pastor of the church at Roxbury, Mass.: "Margaret Huntington, widow, came in 1633. Her husband [Simon Huntington I] died by the way of smallpox. Shrought children with her." She married (1) Simon Huntington in England on May 11, 1623, and (2) Thomas Stoughton of Dorchester in 1635-6 and removed to Windsor, Conn. where he was prominent in public affairs. "New England families, genealogical and memorial: a record of the..." Vol. 3 by Cutter.
The Rev. John Eliot, pastor of the church at Roxbury, Massachusetts, recorded as follows: "Margaret Huntington, widow, came in 1633. Her husband died by the way of smallpox. She brought children with her." She married, 1635-36, Thomas Stoughton, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and removed to Windsor, Connecticut, where her husband was a deputy several times from that town to the general court, and prominent in all public affairs. Children of Simon and Margaret (Baret) Huntington: William, Thomas, Christopher, Simon, Ann. Margaret Barrett was daughter of Christopher Barrett, mayor of Norwich in 1634. In 1649 her brother Peter Barrett wrote to her son Christopher regarding a legacy due to "yourself [Christopher], Symon, Thomas and Ann" from their grandfather. In 1671 another of her brothers, Thomas Barrett, spoke of his sister "Margaret who married to one Symond Huntington who carried her to New England & had several children by her; but we can give no account of her or them, yet think that she & several of her children are living there" [Hale, House 648, citing Joseph James Muskett, Suffolk Manorial Families, 3 vols. (Exeter 1900-1914), 2:153-60]. (This information and much more, including the known Barrett pedigree and a dismissal of the proposed Huntington English pedigree, were published by Jacobus in 1952, the best account available of the immigrant family, lacking only the Norwich parish register entries [Hale, House 647-51].) In December 1634 James Cudworth wrote to his stepfather Dr. John Stoughton to report that "my uncles [Thomas and Israel Stoughton] ... are both in good health, and my uncle Thomas is to be married shortly, to a widow that has good means and has five children" [NEHGR 14:104]. Was there a fifth child who made the voyage in 1633, or was Cudworth somehow counting the deceased Henry, or was he simply wrong about the number of children the widow would bring with her at marriage? The latter seems the most likely solution, since, barring multiple births, there hardly seems room for another child born between 1623 and 1633, unless perhaps Margaret was pregnant in 1633 and bore a child after arrival in New England. The chronology is already squeezed, since Christopher must be the eldest child, and placing two children in the five year gap between Christopher and Simon does not allow the usual two year span between surviving children. Whatever the solution, we know from the 1649 letter of Margaret's brother that only four children were alive in that year.
- Rev. John John Eliot, pastor of the church at Roxbury, Mass.: "Margaret Huntington, widow, came in 1633. Her husband [Simon Huntington I] died by the way of smallpox. Shrought children with her." She married (1) Simon Huntington in England on May 11, 1623, and (2) Thomas Stoughton of Dorchester in 1635-6 and removed to Windsor, Conn. where he was prominent in public affairs. "New England families, genealogical and memorial: a record of the..." Vol. 3 by Cutter.