Robert Winchell

Bef 1610 - 1668  (> 58 years)

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• Name	Robert Winchell  [1, 2]
  Born	Bef 1610  [2]
  	Unknown
  Gender	Male
  Birth	England or Wales?
  Arrival	Abt 1634	Connecticut, USA   [2]
  Died	21 Jan 1667/68	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [2]
  Death	21 Jan 1669	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [1]
  Reference Number	6561
  Person ID	I6561	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Unknown Unknown,   b. Abt 1610,   d. 10 Jul 1655, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  (Age ~ 45 years)
  Married	Bef 1635  [2]
  Children	1. Nathaniel Winchell,   b. Abt 1634  [natural]   2. Jonathan Winchell,   b. Abt 1636  [natural]   3. Phebe Winchell,   b. 29 Mar 1639, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA ,   bur. 23 Jun 1662, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  (Age ~ 23 years)  [natural]   4. Mary Winchell,   b. 5 Sep 1641, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  [natural] + 5. David Winchell,   b. 22 Oct 1643, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F1836	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Arrival - Abt 1634 - Connecticut, USA Died - 21 Jan 1667/68 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death - 21 Jan 1669 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos		immigrant icon Date:5/13/2019 7:47:58 PM
  		winchell25 Date:1/7/2018 08:15:50

  
  

• Notes

  Robert Winchell is listed on the Windsor, Connecticut Founders Monument. Many online trees have Mary Phelps as his wife. There is no source to support that. Ancient Windsor book and Great Migration Series both have Unknown Unknown for spouse. He does have an association with William Phelps-See Great Migration. In his will he asks Sister Randall (Mary Randall), Abraham Randall and Brother Phelps (no first name given) to be his estates overseers. Possibly there is some relationship between a Phelps and Randall. Notes from the book "The Winchell Genealogy : the ancestry and children of those born to the Winchell name in America since 1635, with a discussion of the origin and history of the name and the family in England, and notes on the Wincoll family" by Newton N. and Alexander N WInchell in 1917: The book lists some genealogies and wills of Winchells and WIncolls in England. However, there is no known connection to Robert Winchell. The book concludes that Robert Winchell was probably born in England. There were also some other Winchells and Wincolls in America in the early time period, however Robert was the head of the only family in WIndsor. There is no evidence connecting Robert to any of the others. There is a family story of "3 brothers'. However, the authors believe that to be a myth. There is no known connection between any of those other any Winchells and Wincolls to Robert. End notes from the book. The Great Migration series of sketches also conclude that Robert's origin is unknown. All of that being said, there are numerous online trees showing Robert's English ancestry. However, none of them show any evidence other than ancestry trees and find-a-grave entries.

  
  

• Sources

  [S551] Family of Winchell in America; Embracing the Etymology and History of the Name ane the outlines of some Collateral Genealogies, Alexander Winchell, LL.D., (Name: Dr. Chase's Steam Printing House; Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan; Date: 1869;). winchell25 Date:1/7/2018 08:15:50 [S555] Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, Robert Charles Anderson, (Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society; Location: Boston; Date: 2011;).