Wise

Name origin: A name given for the quality of wisdom.

• Thomas Wise (1532-1593)
• Humphrey Wise (1562- )
• Humphrey Wise (1591-1639)

Thomas Wise

b.abt.1532 Tilsyde, Wiltshire, England; parents ukn
d.abt.April 19, 1593 Tilsyde, Wiltshire, England
m.abt.1559 Agnes _______
b.abt.1536; parents ukn
d.abt.April 1, 1617

CHILDREN included:

1. Robert Wise b.abt.1560
2. Humphrey Wise b.abt.1562
3. John Wise b.abt.1564
4. Rachel Wise b.abt.1566
5. Bridgett Wise b.abt.1568
6. Margerie Wise b.abt.1570
7. Jane Wise b.abt.1572 d.abt.March 20, 1603/1604
8. Grace Wise b.abt.1574
9. Agnes Wise b.abt.1576

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Humphrey Wise

b.abt.1562 Tilsyde, Wiltshire, England; s/o Thomas and Agnes Wise
m.ukn

CHILDREN included (all b.England):

1. Agnes Wise b.1590
2. Humphrey Wise b.1591
3. Eleanor Wise b.1593
4. Mary Wise b.1595

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Humphrey Wise

b.1591 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; s/o Humphrey Wise
d.March 26, 1639 Ipswich, MA
m.May 11, 1650 Newbury, MA; Susan Tidd
b.1592 England; parents ukn
d.1678 Ipswich, MA

CHILDREN included:

1. Susannah Wise b.abt.1618/1625 d.July 17, 1699
2. Mary Wise b.1618 d.May 29, 1706
3. Abigail Wise b.1621
4. Alice Wise b.1620 Pemaquid, ME d.Aug. 20, 1657 Hampton River, NH [lost at sea]; m.1639/1640 of Hampton, NH Moses Cox
5. Sarah Wise b.1625 d.Jan. 13, 1707
6. Benjamin Wise b.1616/1627 lost at sea
7. Joseph Wise b.1618/1629 lost at sea
8. Em Wise b.1631 lost at sea
9. Ann Wise b.1624/1635 lost at sea
10. Edmund Wise b.1620

From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700, by Holmes: HUMPHREY, at Ipswich, Mass., 1639.

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