Christopher
was my 7th great-grandfather. He was the son of the immigrant John
Wickwire, who was born about 1650 in England. John was in the
colonies by 1675 when he served in the military in King Philip's War.
It was the next year, 1676, in November when John was married to
Christopher's mother, Mary Tonge, in New London, New London County,
Connecticut. They were early settlers in the section of New London
now known as Montville.
Christopher
was the 2nd son, born on 8 Jan 1679/80. My website uses this "double
dating" becuase before 1752 the calendar used March 25th as the
beginning of the year. So January 8th would be in the latter part of
1679, but in our way of thinking it would be in the beginning of
1680, so I used the double dating system, showing both years.
Christopher
was one of 8 children and at least 7 lived long enough to be married.
He was married about 1700 to Elizabeth Swaddle. The Wickwire family
history compiled by Ellwood Count Curtis shows Christopher and
Elizabeth with 9 children and identifies 21 grandchildren. Now I must
get busy and enter Christopher's siblings and grandchildren into my
database. Part of the goal of blogging about the birthday ancestors
is so I will get my database and then my website updated.
check
Christopher on my website in a few days and see if I accomplished my
goal.
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