Timothy Mather1
M, b. 1628, d. 14 January 1684/85
Timothy was born in 1628 in Much-Woolton, Lancastershire, England. He was the son of Reverand Richard Mather and Catherine Holt. Timothy married Catherine Atherton, daughter of Major General Humphrey Atherton and Mary Wales, in 1649 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.2 He and Catherine were blessed with 6 children. Timothy's wife, Catherine, died before 20 March 1680/81 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, leaving him a widower. Timothy married 2nd Elizabeth (?) on 28 March 1681 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Timothy departed this life on Sunday, 14 January 1684/85 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. As a result of a fall from a scaffold in a barn.3 He was buried in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, in the Dorchester North Burying Ground.4
Children of Timothy Mather and Catherine Atherton
- Reverand Samuel Mather+ b. 5 Jul 1650, d. 18 Mar 1727/28
- Richard Mather b. 22 Dec 1653, d. 17 Aug 1684
- Catherine Mather b. 8 Jan 1655/56, d. 1691
- Nathaniel Mather b. 2 Sep 1658
- Joseph Mather b. 25 May 1661, d. 8 Jan 1690/91
- Atherton Mather b. b 4 Oct 1663, d. 9 Nov 1734
Citations
- [S954] Nathaniel Goodwin, Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts
, page 151 - TIMOTHY MATHER, of Dorchester, Mass., was twice married.
1. To Atherton, daughter of Major-General Humphrey
Atherton, of the same town, about 1650. She died .
"To Elizabeth Weeks, daughter of Ammiel Weeks, of Dorchester,
March 20, 1679. She was born October 18, 1657."
Timothy Mather, Esq., died January 14, 1684, aged about 56,
by a fall from a scaffold in a barn.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mather died February 19, 1710.
Children,-by hit first wife.
7 Samuel, born July, 1651.
8 Richard, bap. November 2, 1653.
9 Nathaniel, born September 2,1658.
10 Joseph, born May 25,1661. Married Sarah Clapp, of Dorchester,
June 2,1689, and died in 1691. One
child.
11 Atherton, bap. October 4, 1663.
12 Katharine, bap. Died, unmarried, in 1694.
Children,-by his second wife,-none. - [S296] Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, Drawn From The Records Of The Colonies, Towns, & Churches, & Other Contemporaneous Documents., page 22.
- [S954] Nathaniel Goodwin, Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts
, page 151 -. - [S951] Find a grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.