According to legend, John Nathan Lord left Wales as a youth and set out for London. He was accompanied by his friend, Abraham Conley, who was Irish. It was in London (or Kent) that John married Ann and they had a son, Nathan. Meanwhile, his friend Abraham had also married and had a daughter, Judith Conley. When John died, his friend Abraham, whose wife had also died, married John's widow, Ann. It is supposed that Ann accompanied Abraham to New England, along with his daughter Judith and his step-son Nathan Lord.
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The following is taken from a paper "Nathan Lord of Old Kittery," presented by Ernest C. and Judith H. Maby at the 1992 meeting of the 'Sons and Daughters of Nathan Lord'.
The following is taken from a paper "Nathan Lord of Old Kittery", presented by Ernest C. and Judith H. Maby at the 1992 meeting of the 'Sons and Daughters of Nathan Lord'.
"We find a record of Nathan Lord's parents, (John) Nathan Lord and Ann Lord, in Rye parish resisters in Sussex, England, which show the baptism of five children, born between 1626 and 1633 to this couple. The same register also records the burial of his father Nathan Lord, shoemaker, February 1, 1633; the earlier deaths of three of the children; and the baptism of our Nathan Lord., September 1, 1633, seven months after his father's death. By February 1633, Nathan's mother Ann was a widow with two surviving children, Mary and Nathan.
Records of this family exist from 1602 back seven or more generations.
On January 1, 1634, the widow Lord married Abraham Conley in Wittersham parish, Kent, England. Her daughter, Mary, died January 6, 1634, only a few days later. The baptismal records of Wittersham parish show a son of Abraham Conley baptised on November 5, 1636. It is not known whether this child survived infancy. Ann Lord herself is thought to have died about November 1636, not long after.
Abraham came to America bringing his step-son Nathan with him. Whether Ann Lord Conley, Nathan's mother, and the little boy baptised in 1636 lived long enough to come with Abraham and Nathan, we do not know."
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In Rye parish registers in Sussex, England, we find records of the baptisms of five children, born between 1626 and 1633 to John Nathan Lord and Ann Wilcox.
The same registers also record the burial of John Nathan Lord, shoemaker, on February 1, 1633.
The records also mention the earlier deaths of three of the children, and the baptism of Nathan Lord, September 1, 1633; seven months after his father's death.
By February 1633, Ann Lord was a widow with two surviving children, Mary and Nathan.