John Hussey

  Research Notes:

Source: The Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, 1907.

The first authentic account we have of the current family is the record
of John Hussey and Mary Wood, December 5, 1593, when they both were of
Dorking, Surrey, England, and were persons of good position and of
moderate estate in lands. John Hussey died in England, leaving a widow
and children. Of the latter the records are meagre, but there is known
to have been a son John, who died young, a son Christopher and one or
more daughters of whom we have no authentic account.

According to the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, it
is not unlikely that John was the early voyager Hussey cast away upon
Cape Florida and there devoured by the native cannibals, a fate
attributed to Christopher by his gr. gr. son Joseph Marshall of
Nantucket, in his signed 'Genealogy of the Husseys.'

Another source, a Hussey genealogy chart provided to me by a Hussey
descendant, Dorothy Carter of Waynesville, OH, in 1992, John Hussey died
in Dorking on 5 Feb 1630.

This information is quoted from the quarterly "Historic Nantucket",
volume 27, Oct. 1979, No. 2

J. William Bardoe, Director of Research, English Genealogical Research,
Guildford, Surrey, furnished the entries below, some of which he
re-checked for accuracy, and stated that the registers of the adjacent
parishes of Abinger and Sheir (Shera) do not contain Hussey entries prior
to 5th 12. 1593. Neither do the Richmond Parish Registers reveal anything
pertinent to the ancestry of Christopher Hussey.

DORKING PARISH REGISTERS, CO. SURREY, ENGLAND
1503-178_
MARRIAGES
25th 9. 1569. John Wood Joane Taylor
5th 12. 1593* John Hussey Marie Wood
BAPTISMS
28th 6. 1562. John Wood, son of John Wood (senior) and Audrey, his wife
5th 5. 1581 Sara Wood, daughter of John Wood (junior)
9th 7. 1581 Marie Wood, granddaughter of John Wood (senior)
30th 8. 1584 Elias Wood, son of John Wood (junior)
3rd 10. 1588 Martha Wood, daughter fo John Wood (junior)
29th 4. 1596 John Hussey, first child of John Hussey and Marie Wood
18th 2. 1598 Christopher Hussey, second child of John Hussey and Marie
Wood
31st 1. 1601 Marie Hussey, third child of John Hussey and Marie Wood
BURIALS
1581 Marie Wood, daughter of John Wood (senior)
1586 Joane Wood, daughter fo John Wood (senior)
8th 11. 1597 John Hussey, son of John Hussey and Marie Wood
18th 2. 1603 Audrey, wife of John Wood (senior)
5th 4. 1612 John Wood (senior)
24th 5. 1632 John Hussey, aged 74

*Between 1582 and 1752, March was the first month of the year. The
12th month, therefore, was February, which brought about double dating.
5th 12. 1593, for example, should read 5th February 1593 4 or February
5, 1593 4.

John married Mary Wood, daughter of Henry Wood and Marthey Bull, on 2 Dec 1593 in Dorking, Surrey, England. (Mary Wood was born on 24 May 1571 in Dorking, Surrey, England and died on 16 Jun 1660 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.)