William Waterbury

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography: From the. The parish registers of All Saints Church in Sudbury reveal a series of baptisms covering the decade between 1619 and 1629 of the children of William Waterbury, who was later to emigrate to America, possibly with several of his children, but of whom seemingly only the eldest son, John, was to survive or remain, there permanently. William and Alice in 1630, probably had at least five children living, all under 15 years of age. Some of these children may have been left behind in England with relatives when the journey to America was made. If so a reason for the early return of William and Alice, to England is suggested. It is possible that after establishing themselves in Massachusetts that they returned to England for the other children and either died on ship board or soon after landing in England as further traces of them there have not been found in England.

The parish registers [1] referred to in the preceding paragraph disclose baptisms as follows:

July 25, 1619, Rachell, daughter of William Waterbury
December 30, 1621, John, son of William Waterberrie
February 29, 1624, Mary, daughter of William Waterbery
February 26, 1626, William, son of William Waterbery [2]
August 9, 1627, William. son of William Waterbury
September 20, 1629, Samuel. son of William Waterbury

That there were other families of Waterburys resident in Sudbury at about the time that William and Alice left for America with whom some of their children might have been left is indicated from the extant records which show the marriage of John Waterburye and Anne Shelton to have taken place there November 1, 1614. This John was a brother of William Waterbury the emigrant to America. There are various extant records of others with this surname resident at Sudbury from about 1585 down appearing in the civil records all well as in those of the church.

After landing in Boston, William and Alice Waterbury took up their residence in the nearby settlement of Watertown, Mass. There their names appear upon the membership rolls of the church all having been the 35th and 36th members to unite with it. It is suggested that when William and Alice left for England that they may have left John (I) in the temporary custody of the Lockwood family, then neighbors, pending their own anticipated but thwarted return and that it was in this manner that John's romance with Rose Lockwood developed.

Jonathan Waterbury Genealogy
by Grace A. Waterbury and Edwin M. Waterbury
Palladium-Times, Inc., Oswego, NY 1930

William married Alice Parcett.