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- Note: No death or burial record has been found for Agnes, and her fate is not known following the death of her third husband in 1613. She is almost certainly buried in Bishop's Stortford, as that is the burial location of all three of her husbands. Ellis, in his history of Roxbury, Mass. makes the statement that "Old Mother Denison" died in 1641 in Roxbury. That this would be the mother of William Denison is far-fetched, and not accepted by any contemporary genealogical work (e.g. the Great Migration project or any of the following sources). She was likely born about 1545 (her oldest known child was baptized in 1567), and if she came to New England, she would have come with her son William in 1631. Though not impossible, it is fanciful to suggest a woman aged about 86 would make the arduous ocean crossing from England to North America in the 1630s.
Material in this memorial comes from: (1) George Denison genealogy, pp xxi-xxii (probably based on a 1936 article in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record); (2) NEHGR 158:361-363 (2004), and (3) NEHGR 171:134-143 (2017).
Agnes was the daughter of John Willie (Wylley, etc.) and Joan Marshall of Thorley, Hertfordshire, England. She was born c. 1545, living in 1613, and m. (1) Thorley, Herts. 11 May 1561 John DENISON, bur. Bishop's Stortford, Herts. 4 Dec 1582. She m. (2) Bishop's Stortford 3 May 1584 John GACE, bur. there 2 Sep 1602, and then m. (3) Little Hadham, Hertfordshire 18 May 1603 John WALL, Sr., bur. Bishop's Stortford 3 Nov 1613, the son of Nicholas Wall of Great Hallingbury, Essex. John Wall left a will dated 26 Oct 1613 and proved the following month. The fate of Agnes following the death of her third husband has not been discovered.
The children of Agnes with her first husband, surname Denison:
* Luce, bapt 3 Aug 1567, bur. 9 Dec 1582
* William, bapt 3 Feb 1571, m. Margaret (CHANDLER) Monk
* Edward, bapt. 6 April 1575, went to Ireland and lived in Dublin. His son became Deputy Governor of Cork.
* Mary, bapt. 28 Aug 1577
* Elisabeth, bapt. 23 Aug 1579
* George, bapt. 1 March 1582 [1]
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1545 - unknown
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