Lilla Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1849 - (Wellfleet, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death: 1852
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Swett Higgins (1808-1866) 2
Mother: Betsey Rich Freeman (1809-1895) 3
Lillian Estelle Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Dec 1895 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joshua F Higgins (1854- )
Mother: Albertina Cook Chandler (1866-1912)
Spouses and Children
1. *George Everett Crowell (1896 - )
Marriage: 13 Jan 1915 - Orleans, Massachusetts 4
Status:
Lillian F Higgins
Sex: F
AKA: Lillian T Higgins
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Dec 1870 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 6
Baptism:
Death: 23 Aug 1938
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Clement Meserve Higgins (1825-1887) 7
Mother: Dorcas Lombard Collins (1827-1904) 8
Spouses and Children
1. *Elbridge Gerry Freeman (5 Aug 1866 - )
Marriage: 22 Jan 1891 - Winthrop, Massachusetts 9
Status:
Children:
1. Maud Renett Freeman (1891- ) 10
2. Beatrice Ellsworth Freeman (1892- ) 11
3. Clement Cole Freeman (1893-1894) 12
4. Hazel Lesley Freeman (1894- )
5. Celia Gray Freeman (1896- ) 13
Notes
General:
married 2d Feakins (died as Feakins)
Lillian M Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Oct 1852 - Eastham, Massachusetts 14
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Beniah G Higgins (1830-1876) 15
Mother: Maria T Dill (1835-1902) 15
Spouses and Children
1. *Herbert F Fish (1850 - )
Marriage: 30 Nov 1871 - Eastham, Massachusetts 14
Status:
Children:
1. Alice K Fish (1875-1875)
Lillian M Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1877
Baptism:
Death: 1914 - (Wellfleet, Massachusetts)
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Robert W Higgins (1843-1908) 16
Mother: Hannah Doane Hawes (1845-1905) 17
Notes
General:
[confirm parents]
Lionne E Higgins
Sex: F
AKA: Connie S Higgins
Ione E Higgins
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Sep 1873 - Eastham, Massachusetts 14
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Orrin Higgins (1830-1910)
Mother: Eliza J Smith (1834-After 1910)
Spouses and Children
1. *Isaiah W Eldridge (1876 - )
Marriage: 13 Jun 1895 - Eastham, Massachusetts 14
Status:
Children:
1. Bertram Wallace Eldridge (1900- )
Notes
General:
given name unclear - images poor
Lizette A Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Jun 1860 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: Between 1910 and 1920 - Lincoln, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Barzilla Franklin Higgins (1833-1861) 18
Mother: Lydia L Brooks (1835-Between 1910/1920) 19
Spouses and Children
1. *Philip Jones Mills (Cir 1860 - )
Marriage: 30 Mar 1888 - Lincoln, Maine
Status:
Lizzie Higgins
Sex: F
AKA: Elisabeth Ann Higgins 20
Individual Information
Birth: 3 May 1832 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 20
Baptism:
Death: 17 Jan 1896 - (Providence, Rhode Island)
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Enoch Higgins (1798-1866) 21
Mother: Eliza Hopkins (1798-1850) 22
Spouses and Children
1. *Seth Newcomb (1 Sep 1830 - ) 23
Marriage: 18 Mar 1852 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 24
Status:
Children:
1. Rachel Ellen Newcomb (1856-1911)
2. Chester Fillmore Newcomb (1863-1939) 25
3. Lizzie Watson Newcomb (1865-1886) 26
4. Leonard Burrows Newcomb (1868-1899) 27
Notes
Marriage Notes (Seth Newcomb)
1880 US census, Providence, RI
Seth Newcomb, 50, keeps restaurant
Lizzie Newcomb, 50. keeps house
Chester F Newcomb, 17, clerk at insurance office
Lizie W Newcomb, 13, at school
Leoanrd B Newcomb, 11, at school
Rachel Newcomb, mother, 82
all b Mass.
Lizzie Archer Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 10 May 1870 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 29
Baptism:
Death: 1938
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Philip Higgins (1835-1920)
Mother: Arabella Cass Blaney (1842-1920) 28
Lizzie Atkins Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1877 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Willis Higgins (1844-1930)
Mother: Irene A (1844-1881)
Spouses and Children
1. *William Thomas Covell (1873 - )
Marriage: 23 Dec 1897 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 30
Status:
Lizzie D Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1869 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Orrin Higgins (1830-1910)
Mother: Eliza J Smith (1834-After 1910)
Spouses and Children
1. *William H Quinn (1865 - )
Marriage: 1 Sep 1888 - Eastham, Massachusetts 14
Status:
Lizzie G Higgins
Sex: F
AKA: Elizabeth G Higgins
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Dec 1855 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 31 Mar 1901 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death: internal hemorrhage
Events
• Alt. Birth, , Orleans, Massachusetts in Orleans, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Seneca Higgins (1808-1891) 31
Mother: Phebe Gould (1811-1876) 31
Spouses and Children
1. *Sylvanus P Collins (18 Mar 1862 - After 1930) 32
Marriage: 2 Dec 1890 - Eastham, Massachusetts 33
Status:
Notes
General:
1890 pants maker, OrleansMedical:
age 43-3
Lizzie G (Higgins) Collins
wife of Sylvanus P Collins
housekeeper
b & res Orleans
d/o Seneca Higgins & Phebe Gould, b Orleans 4
Lloyd F Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Feb 1898 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joshua F Higgins (1854- )
Mother: Albertina Cook Chandler (1866-1912)
Lloyd Hale Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Feb 1892 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 11
Baptism:
Death: 1953
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet 34
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Thomas Allen Higgins (1857-1915)
Mother: Ednah Picard Hale (1857-1955)
Lois Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1756 - (Middle Haddam (Middletown), Connecticut)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Lamuel Higgins (1729- ) 35
Mother: Elizabeth Cole (1732- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Seth Higgins (4 Feb 1751 - Aug 1777) 36
Marriage: Cir 1770
Status:
Notes
General:
Lois married 2nd, 22 Sep 1779, Caleb Parsons of Enfield, Conn. 36Marriage Notes (Seth Higgins)
Lois identity questionable
Children:
Lois, bap 15 Sept 1771, d 19 Sept 1776
Sally, bap 1773
Seth ?, b 1775 ?
Lois Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Aug 1763 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 37
Baptism:
Death: 29 Nov 1821 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 38
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Deacon Jonathan Higgins (1734-1821) 39
Mother: Sarah Coombs (1729-Est 1776) 40
Spouses and Children
1. *Edmund Hawes (Est 1760 - 11 Mar 1818)
Marriage: 1790 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 41
Status:
Children:
1. Jabez Snow Hawes (1792-1813) 42
2. Jesse Dyer Hawes (1794-1882) 42
3. William Hawes (1796-1873) 42
4. Edmund Hawes (1799-1877) 42
5. Benjamin Higgins Hawes (1802-1802) 42
Lois Higgins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Aug 1723 - Eastham, Massachusetts 43
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Benjamin Higgins (1681-1777)
Mother: Sarah Freeman (1684-1744)
Lorenzo Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 9 Sep 1822 - Brewster, Massachusetts 44
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Aquila Higgins (1794-1876) 45
Mother: Sabrina Atwood (1796-1858)
Lorimer E Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1899
Baptism:
Death: 1967
Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Worthen Higgins (1870-1941) 46
Mother: Rebecca Higgins Horton (1875-1929)
Lorrimer Franklin Higgins
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Feb 1907 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 47
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Harold Clifton Higgins (1885-1951) 48
Mother: Eva Frances Robinson (1886-1935) 49
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2. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:54. .... Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 5, lot 57. Deacon Thomas Higgins & Thankful Holbrook family.
3. Evelyn Rich, "Richard Rich of Eastham on Cape Cod and some of his descendants" (New England Historical and Genealogical Register.), 83:399. in 5 parts. vol. 83: 261-278, 394-414 (1929) and vol. 84: 34-62, 117-134, 294-304 (1930)
Numerous small mistakes.
4. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Orleans.
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7. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 46, lot 4. Clement M. & Dorcas L. Higgins family. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:122. the children of Elnathan and Thankful Higgins.
8. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 46, lot 4. Clement M. & Dorcas L. Higgins family. .... George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 311.
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10. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1891. Births.
11. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1892. Births.
12. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1893. Births.
13. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1896. Births.
14. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Eastham.
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16. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lot 445. Joseph A. Higgins, Anna Watson, Robert W. Higgins, Hannah D. Hawes, Lillian Higgins.
17. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lot 445. Joseph A. Higgins, Anna Watson, Robert W. Higgins, Hannah D. Hawes, Lillian Higgins. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:164. The children of Solomon and Adeline Hawes.
18. Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), 516. This is a major source, which seems accurate.
19. Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), 416.
20. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:125. the children of Ennoch and Elizabeth Higgins.
21. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lot 657b. Enoch & Eliza Higgins family. .... Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), p 254.
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23. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:124. children of Seth and Rachel Newcomb.
24. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Marriages, 1857-1858, in volume 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 2:68. Penmanship is particularly poor in these pages.
25. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 6.
26. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 9.
27. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 13.
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30. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1897 marriages. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Marriages 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 49.
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38. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:234. Deaths.
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48. Kenneth Cole, South Wellfleet Cemetery (Wellfleet, Mass. Rich Family Association). .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 30.
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