Andrews

   "Andrews" or "Andrus," a surname that is Scottish in origin. It was first found in Caithness (Gaelic: Gallaibh), the northern tip of Scotland, a Norse/Viking controlled region from the 9th century, which became the Earldom of Caithness. This family was strongly associated with the Clan Ross. It was originally known as the Clan Siol Andrea, meaning the race of Andrew. However, from about the year 1100 the Andrews moved south to the Dumfriesshire area of southwest Scotland. Duncan Andrew, Chief of the Clan, rendered homage to King Edward I of England in 1296.
   The Family Coat of Arms features a red shield with a green saltire over which is a gold saltire. The Crest is a Saracen's (Muslim's) head, probably having to do with the Crusades. The Family Motto is "Victrix fortuna sapientia," meaning "Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune." The name Andrews is derived from the baptismal name Andrew which in Greek means manly. The name was popular as both a personal name and a surname, likely because it was the name of Scotland's patron saint. In Gaelic the name is Aindrea and Anndra which again means manly.
   Our connection to this line dates back to FRANCIS ANDREWS, whose birthplace is unknown, but we do know that his name is on the Founder's Monument in the Ancient Burying Ground at Hartford, Connecticut, and it's been suggested that he was the brother of JOHN ANDREWS from County Essex, England. Both Francis and John had sons who married daughters of Robert Porter of Farmington, Connecticut. Francis was at Hartford from 1639-1647/48 and he purchased, before 1640, the north part of Richard Butler's lot, on the corner of the present Elm and Trinity Street, Hartford.¹

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   His wife was thought to be Ann Smith (b. 1625); She has been called the daughter of GILES SMITH (Virkus III, p. 607), but "Johanna Smith daughter of Gylles Smith was baptised March the twenty five one thousand six hundreth and forty and nyne,"² making her too young to be the wife of Francis. In Torrey (pp. 17, 682) Anne/Anna (_____) ANDREWS married second, ca. 1664, Henry SMITH who died 1687, his widow dying 1690. There is also evidence she was the daughter of JOHN SMITH; Families of Early Hartford, Conn. declared that Francis "married Anna Smith, daughter of John Smith, in Hartford." Perhaps it is of no consequence; at least, until it is determined whether or not she was the mother of the children of Francis. He was an early member of First Church, Hartford as his two oldest sons were baptised there, and they had the following children, in all (from the above references, including his will):

CHILDREN OF FRANCIS ANDREWS AND ANN SMITH (?)

JOHN ANDREWES was the first "sunn of Frances Andrewes, bap. Sept. 27, 1646" (Hartford Town Records, aee image, at right); died 1683, at Fairfield 1670; married Bethia Kirby (1658-1700) and had two children living when he died, probably John (1679-1728) Sarah Andrews (1680-1719). (Image Source: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002³)

THOMAS ANDREWES was the second "sunn of Frances Andrewes bap. Jan. 2, 1647/48" (HTR); died 1700 (Savage) or 1718 (Torrey); probably the Thomas ANDREWS of Hartford, freeman 1667; at Milford, Connecticut, 1675-1700. From NEH&G Register XI, p. __: "Records of Farmington - Hannah & Mary Andrews, twin daughters of Thomas Andrews of Melford, son-in-law to Robert Porter, baptised here by writes of communion of church May 31, 1685." See record, at right (SOURCE: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004).

JEREMIAH ANDREWS was probably the Jeremiah of Bedford, N. Y., 1697; if so, his (second?) wife which he married 8 Sept. 1697 was Hannah (GOLD) AMBLER.

ABRAHAM ANDREWS of Waterbury, Connecticut, married Rebecca CARRINGTON (source image at right, from Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), eight children (not to be confused with Abraham of Farmington [son of John] who also moved to Waterbury). "Abraham, son of Francis, was a man of note of Waterbury, Conn., one of first Townsmen, or Selectmen. He married Rebecca Carrington and, dying in 1729, left children Rebecca, Mary, Hannah, Abraham, Sarah, Rachael, John, and Thomas. The Abraham, Sr., was Town Surveyor of Waterbury, Conn., In 1700. There were four Abraham Andrews here in 1712, fathers and sons; the fathers being cousins." (SOURCE: Andrews Genealogy and Alliance, by Clara Berry Wyker, Methodist Book Concern Press, Cincinnati, Ohio Decatur, Ala, 1917; p. 31)

(ELIZABETH) MARY ANDREWS (Elizabeth) Mary ANDREWS. One Mary died 1691, daughter of Francis, married Simon COOLEY who died 1688 at Fairfield (Virkus III, p. 607). One Mary died 1671 married Simon COUCH died 1688 (the same?).

ESTHER/HESTER ANDREWS.

REBECCA ANDREWS married 7 July 1678 (as his second wife) Samuel BENEDICT of Norwalk and Danbury, Connecticut (source image at right, from Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004). In the fall of 1684 and the spring of 1685, Samuel, with his brother James, his brother-in-law James Beebe, Judah Gregory (brother-in-law of James Benedict), and four others, purchased land of the Indians and made the first settlement at Paquiogue (Danbury).

RUTH ANDREWS.

HANNAH ANDREWS married JOHN CRAMPTON on 6 Jun 1662 (source image at right, from Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), later of Norwalk. In his will, Francis bequeathed to "John Crampton, husband of daughter Hannah," (undetermined) rods of lands in his homestead lot, next his house, "provided he fence it all around with a five-rail fence." Hannah lived with John in Norwalk until she died on 08 Oct 1697 in Norwalk.

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CHILDREN OF JOHN CRAMPTON AND HANNAH ANDREWS

JOHN CRAMPTON II was born in 1656 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut. On 8 Oct 1676 he married SARAH ROCKWELL (b. 1653), and they had the following children: Sarah (b. 1679), Joseph (1680-1720), Abigail (b. 1681), John (b. 1682) and Samuel Crompton (b. 1684). John died before 1687 in Norwalk. (Source: Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870, in the Barbour Collection³).

HANNAH CRAMPTON was born on 6 Jun 1662 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut. On 5 Mar 1679, she married Benjamin Scribner (d. 1704). (Source: Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870, in the Barbour Collection³) Hannah died on 12 Apr 1743 in Norwalk. In his will, grandfather Francis Andrews gave her ten shillings.

JOSEPH CRAMPTON was born in 1662 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut. He died in 1719 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, where he was one of the original Colonial landowners. (Source: Teller, Daniel W.: The history of Ridgefield, Conn. : from its first settlement to the present time. Danbury Conn.: T. Donovan, 1878. Pages 3-5; click on image, at right) On 29 Dec 1714 he married Patience Canfield (b: 8 Oct 1695) in Ridgefield, and they had the following children: Mary (b: 5 Nov 1715), Sarah (b: 5 May 1717), and Abigail Crampton (b: 20 Aug 1719).

NATHANIEL CRAMPTON was born in 1664 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, and died on 13 Mar 1693 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut.

GENEALOGY

FRANCIS ANDREWS married ANNA (?) and they begat...

HANNAH ANDREWS (1641-1697) who married JOHN CRAMPTON (1640-1683) and they begat...

JOHN CRAMPTON II (1656-1687) who married SARAH ROCKWELL (1653-1683) and begat...

SAMUEL CROMPTON (b. 25 Dec 1684) who married MARY STUDWELL (b. 1700) and they begat...

JOHANNA CROMPTON (1725-1769) who married JONATHAN WOOD (1720-1792) and begat...

MARTHA WOOD (1753-1822) who married WILLIAM HAUSE (1750-1818) and begat...

JOHN HAUSE (1773-1844) who married ESTHER KETCHAM (1779-1853) and begat...

AUGUSTUS HAUSE (1804-1875) who married JANE JONES (1802-1850) and begat...

LABAN HAUSE (1831-1906) who married MELISSA SANDERSON (1839-1921) and begat...

FRANK HAUSE (1867-1951) who married FLADELLA RAYMOND (1869-1961) and begat...

CARLISLE HAUSE (1891-1972) who married MARJORIE MARCHANT (1892-1939) who begat...

CARLETON MARCHANT HAUSE, SR. (1917-1983) who married JEANNE BRUNNER (1918-2000) and begat...

CARLETON MARCHANT HAUSE, JR. (1939-2014) who married MARTHA WENK (b. 1940) and begat...

JEFF (who married LORI ANN DOTSON), KATHY (who married HAL LARSEN), ERIC (who married MARY MOONSAMMY), and MICHELE HAUSE (who married JOHN SCOTT HOUSTON).

TOP IMAGE: The Founder's Monument in the Ancient Burying Ground at Hartford, Connecticut, located to the rear of the First Congregational Church, at the corner of Main and Gold Streets in Hartford. From 1640 until the early 1800s, this was Hartford's only graveyard, so anyone who died in town, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnic background, economic status, or religious faith, was interred there. Approximately 6,000 people are believed to have been buried on the grounds. Over the centuries, commercial buildings and the First Congregational meeting house were erected on the land, reducing it in size to its present size of four acres. It is the oldest historic site in Hartford, and the only one surviving from the 1600s. The original brownstone monument erected in 1837 was replaced by this one in 1986.

NOTES ON THIS PAGE:

¹—A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register, by James Savage and John Farmer. Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1860-62. (I, pp. 56-57).

²—New England Historical & Genealogical Register XII, 196, "Original Distribution of the Town of Hartford, Among the Settlers, 1639."

³—The Lucious Barnes Barbour Collection, well known to the Connecticut researcher, serves as an index to and an abstract of most pre-1850 Connecticut vital records. It is housed in the Connecticut State Library, but microfilm copies of it are widely available. Begun after establishment of the State Department of Health, Barbour's project was to abstract and collect all town vital records up to about 1850. There are two formats to the material. The first is a statewide paper slip alphabetical index containing a complete abstract of each vital record taken from the books in each town. The card file holding this index takes up an entire wall at the Connecticut State Library. The second format is the group of separately bound volumes of abstracts of vital records for most towns, prepared from the slips.

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