Discovering my Keeney ancestors was one of my most interesting Salt Lake Institute ventures. A fellow researcher of the Hazen family had heard that we had a Mayflower ancestor. Absolutely nothing to date had pointed in that direction. If the Mayflower connection was true, someone goofed in earlier research.
That proved to be the case. Research had Elizabeth Dart marrying John Hazen. Technically, that was correct. Elizabeth Turner had married Thomas Dart. She was not a Dart by birth as Hazen researchers had stated. Elizabeth Turner Dart Hazen was indeed a descendant of the Mayflower's William Brewster. She was the daughter of Ezekiel Turner and Susanna Keeney, granddaughter of William Keeney.
One of the gaps in the Keeney research was the maiden name of William's wife, Agnes. Various sources gave her maiden name as Duglas, Parker and Duckett.
A possible resolution has been found in Phillimore's Leicester records for marriages in Ashby Parva from 1589-1837.
Phillimore shows a William Kynney marrying Agnes [written over Mary] Duckett on 30 Nov 1627 in Ashby Parva, Leicestershire. This may or may not be the correct William Kenney. It does, however, fit with the estimated date of William's marriage to Agnes.
http://leicestershireparishrecords.blogspot.com/2010/05/phillimores-marriages-ashby-parva-1589.html
The origins of William Keene [Keeney] of Marblehead, Glouchester and Boston, Massachusetts; and New London, Connecticut are unknown (Robert Charles Anderson, FASG [Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists], The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640; a Concise Compendium [Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2015], 191).
ReplyDeleteA possible match for this family group--or at least one worthy of further investigation:
ReplyDeleteName: Suzanne Keene Gender: Female Baptism Date: 15 Aug 1627 Baptism Place: Ilfracombe,Devon,England Father: William Keene Mother: Agnes FHL Film Number: 916849
Source Information Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.