See also
1 Elizabeth BACKUS1 ( - ) [4418].
2 William BACKUS1 (c. 1635-1721) [4396]. Born c. 1635.1 Marr Elizabeth PRATT c. 1664.1 Died 1721.1
4 William BACKUS , Sr.2 (c. 1606-1664) [3632]. Born c. 1606, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.2 Died 7 Jun 1664, Norwich, New London, CT.2
From Legends: Mark's Complete Ancestry on the Web.
BACKUS, WILLIAM c.1612-aft.1723
There is no reference in the town records to his work, activities, station in life, or when or whom he first married, the dates or order of birth of his children, or when their mother died. Older accounts incorrectly show his first wife to have been Sarah Charles; [Sarah Gardiner?] but the probate records demonstrate clearly that Sarah Charles was the first wife of his son William, Jr., not of the senior William. By 1659 William, Sr., had taken as his second wife a widow, Mrs. Anne Bingham, variously recorded by earlier writers as Anne Stenton Bingham, or as Anne Stetson Bingham. She was the widow of Thomas Bingham, they having been married 6 July 1631 in Sheffield, England. A record in the "Parish Register of Sheffield, cy York, Part 1, Baptisms and Marriages, 1560 to1634-5", p. 247, under the year 1631, is that of the marriage of "Tho'Bingham et Anna FFenton", the F being repeated in FFenton, just as L is repeated in Lloyd up to the present time. The same book has a complete index with many Binghams, many Fentons, but not a single Stenton. The obvious conclusion is that William Backus had a second wife named Ann Fenton Bingham, not Anne Stenton Bingham. Thomas Bingham and Anne Fenton had a son Thomas, recorded in Saybrook, Connecticut, also Norwich, and later Windham, where he was known as Thomas, Sr. Two children of this stepson of William Backus, Sr., later married grandchildren of William.
5 Sarah GARDINER2 (c. 1606-aft1644) [3633]. Born c. 1606, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.2 Died aft 1644, England.2
10 Lionel GARDINER2 ( - ) [3634].
11 Elizabeth WOODHOUSE2 ( - ) [3635].
3 Elizabeth PRATT1 ( -c. 1703) [4407]. Died c. 1703.1
6 William PRATT1 ( - ) [4408].
7 Elizabeth CLARK1 ( - ) [4409].
| 1 | "Legends: Mark's Complete Ancestry on the Web.". |
| 2 | "Ancestry.com, Snow/Lyman Ancestors". |