Brief History of Ralph Wallen according to plimoth.org

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Birth: Ralph Wallen was born by about 1595 (based on his estimated

date of marriage).

Death: He died before August 1643.

Ship: Anne or Little James, 1623

Life in England: Nothing is known of his life in England.

Life in New England: Ralph and Joyce Wallen came to

Plymouth in 1623. He was a freeman of Plymouth in 1633, but

did not hold any public office.He owned several parcels of land

in Plymouth, including a house and garden plot at Hob’s Hole

and land along Eel River called “Wallen’s Well.”After his death,

his widow Joyce remained in Plymouth until 1644/5. She was

living in Barnstable by 1651–2.

Family: Ralph Wallen married Joyce _____ by 1623. After his

death, she married (2) Thomas Lumbard as his third wife. She

died after September 1683, probably in Barnstable.

Children of Ralph and Joyce Wallen:

• Mary was born about 1628. She married (1) John Ewer about

1648, but there were no recorded children. He died before

June 29, 1642. She married (2) John Jenkins on February 2,

1652/3, in Barnstable and had seven children. He died

between September 25, 1683, and October 26, 1685, in

Barnstable. She was still living on October 28, 1685.

• Thomas was born by about 1630. He was still living in

Barnstable in 1650 (the last mention of his name in the

Plymouth Colony records) and may have died or left the

colony by 1660.

For Further Information:

Robert C. Anderson. The Great Migration Begins. Boston: New

England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.

Robert C. Anderson. The Pilgrim Migration. Boston: New

England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.

Eleanor Cooley Rue.“Widow Joyce Wallen of Plymouth (1645)

and Widow Joyce Lombard of Barnstable (1664): One and the

Same?” The American Genealogist 67(1): 47–53. January, 1992.

Ethel Farrington Smith. “John Jenkins of Barnstable,

Massachusetts.” New England Historical and Genealogical Register

149: 339–359. 1995.

Eugene A. Stratton. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People,

1620–1691. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986.

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