Francis Littlefield1

b. circa 1565
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8th great-grandfather of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
10th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Ruth Minerva Fairfield
     Francis Littlefield was born circa 1565.1 He was the son of NN Littlefield. He married Mary in St. Peter's Church, Titchfield, Hampshire, England.2 He married second Annis Wigg on 14 July 1606 at Titchfield, Hampshire, England, "Francis littlefield and Annis wygg widow married 14 July."1 He was buried on 22 October 1618 in Titchfield "October. Buried Francis Littlefield the xxijth day."1
     
     Francis Littlefield was a clothier by trade and owned a fulling mill, probably the Little Funtley Mill about two miles upstream from Titchfield village on River Meon.3,4,2

Additional Data
Francis Littlefield made his will on 21 October 1618 in Titchfield in which he mentions wife Anne and sons Edmond, Nicholas, John and James, and James Littlefield, Mary Beane and Richard Littlefield, his brothers and sister. He also bequeathed to his wife's children, Elizabeth and Robert Wigg.5 Click to view image

Children of Francis Littlefield and Mary (—?—) (Littlefield)

Children of Francis Littlefield and Annis Wigg

Citations

  1. [S761] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 148 vols., 1847-1994) 67: 345, 346, citing Titchfield Parish Registers.
  2. [S895] Titchfield History Society, online <http://www.communigate.co.uk/hants/ths/page8.phtml>.
  3. [S761] NEHGR, 67: 346.
  4. [S890] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Littlefield, of Wells," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. III, 479, originally published in The Ancestry of Annis Spear (1945).
  5. [S761] NEHGR, 67: 343-344, citing original will and inventory.
  6. [S761] NEHGR, 67: 345, 347, citing Titchfield Parish Registers.