The ancestry of these Wales was early Puritan. A fire destroyed Dorchester records in 1657, messing up the top of the tree, with branches not distinct until the lines separated by area into Dorchester "stayers" versus Braintree "movers". Stayers descended from that first Samuel, born pre-fire, whose first child was Jerimijah/Zorimijah, with that son born Dec 1704. "Movers" instead descended from "Elder" Nathaniel Wales, who had 7 or 8 sons, all born in Braintree, MA, sons born Dec. 1681 through Mar. 1704, including an Elkanah Wales near the beginning and an Atherton Wales near the end, so Elder Wales was correspondingly older.
TC's family is probably of the chain of Samuels that stayed in Dorchester, having a father and brother both named Samuel. While "staying put" in this one area, boundaries changing create the false impression of fpeopel moving (Dorchester went in and out of Boston outside, then moved into Stoughton, then was annexed into south Boston, along with Roxbury).
The messy tree-top for all the Puritan Wales consisted of a father, the first Nathaniel Wales, who associated with Rev. Richard Mather regarding the Dorchester church, a "mother church" in the sense of training and ordaining ministers and elders to send out to new settlements. This "first father" Nathaniel is assumed to have had three sons. Ordered from likely older to yonger, they were: Nathaniel Jr (no children born post-fire). Timothy (only one child born post-fire, a son, Eleazar). And, John (four children born post-fire.)
Those of the Samuel Wales chain are believed of John (see "Fourteen families", by Elisha Thayer and others). Through the will of in-law Roger Billings, we learned of a pre-Fire son to John, Ebenezer wales. There are Ebenezer wales, not just in the Roxbury/Dorchester area, but in this cemetery. John's known post-fire children included a Content Wales Mason. Did she shock surrounding Puritans by having a child out of wedlock? Content Wales is also buried in this same cemetery.
The ancestry of these Wales was early Puritan. A fire destroyed Dorchester records in 1657, messing up the top of the tree, with branches not distinct until the lines separated by area into Dorchester "stayers" versus Braintree "movers". Stayers descended from that first Samuel, born pre-fire, whose first child was Jerimijah/Zorimijah, with that son born Dec 1704. "Movers" instead descended from "Elder" Nathaniel Wales, who had 7 or 8 sons, all born in Braintree, MA, sons born Dec. 1681 through Mar. 1704, including an Elkanah Wales near the beginning and an Atherton Wales near the end, so Elder Wales was correspondingly older.
TC's family is probably of the chain of Samuels that stayed in Dorchester, having a father and brother both named Samuel. While "staying put" in this one area, boundaries changing create the false impression of fpeopel moving (Dorchester went in and out of Boston outside, then moved into Stoughton, then was annexed into south Boston, along with Roxbury).
The messy tree-top for all the Puritan Wales consisted of a father, the first Nathaniel Wales, who associated with Rev. Richard Mather regarding the Dorchester church, a "mother church" in the sense of training and ordaining ministers and elders to send out to new settlements. This "first father" Nathaniel is assumed to have had three sons. Ordered from likely older to yonger, they were: Nathaniel Jr (no children born post-fire). Timothy (only one child born post-fire, a son, Eleazar). And, John (four children born post-fire.)
Those of the Samuel Wales chain are believed of John (see "Fourteen families", by Elisha Thayer and others). Through the will of in-law Roger Billings, we learned of a pre-Fire son to John, Ebenezer wales. There are Ebenezer wales, not just in the Roxbury/Dorchester area, but in this cemetery. John's known post-fire children included a Content Wales Mason. Did she shock surrounding Puritans by having a child out of wedlock? Content Wales is also buried in this same cemetery.
Inscription
Family Tomb (City of Boston Records)
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[Tomb 366]
T. C. WALES.
Sarah Holmes Wales, Jan. 12, 1833 [infant?]
C[h]arles Boardman Wales, Feb. 15, 1839 [infant?]
Lavinia Barker Wales, Aug. 13, 1846 [infant]
Emily Lincoln Wales, dau. of Geo. C. Wales, Jan. 12, 1857, 4y 4m 22d
George Cummings Wales, July 10, 1865, 37y 10m 10d
Mary Rebecca (Holmes) Wales, wife of T. C. W., Jan. 2, 1872, 64y
Thomas Crane Wales, Dec. 11, 1880.
Mrs. Barzilia Holmes, stepmother of Mrs. T. C. Wales
Miss Lavinia Barker, cousin of T. C. Wales, Dec. 12, 1880
Mary Rebecca Holmes Wales, March 24, 1S81, 50y 6m
Miss Catherine Walton, beloved servant in family of Thomas C. Wales, during 34 years, Apr. 6, 1884
Ellen Catherine Wales, Jan. 1, 1885, 43y 6m 2d
Thomas C. Wales, Jr., Jan. 31, 1902, 66y 1m 15d
Samuel Wales, Jr., brother of T.C. Wales [no dates]
Source: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CEMETERY DEPARTMENT (CITY OF BOSTON FOR THE FISCAL TEAR 1904-1905)
p. 237, City Document No. 8.
NOTE: A census record for Thomas C. Wales and wife Mary R., interviewed Sept. 15, 1850, showed them residing in Dorchester. The household has eight children, ages 3 (Anna F. for Flagg, mis-written as T.) to 22 (George C., to marry an Emily Ames). Other girls were Mary P. H., 19; Hannah D., 17 [to marry a James W. Robertson]; and Susan M., 10. Other boys were Thomas C., 14 (to marry an Ellen L. Monroe); and Nathaniel, 7. Listed last were three others, including Catherine M., age 36, known servant, her last name (Walton) mis-written as Walters.
(Record search by JBrown Contributor #48697180.)
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