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Dennis Churchill has informed me that he wishes to resurrect an old debate as to whether the wife of 2nd generation Connecticut Churchill Joseph was Mary Catlin or Mary Tousey. I doubt that many readers of these postings would be interested in such a debate. The evidence is quite solid that Joseph's wife cannot be Mary Catlin, for the reasons discussed in my posting 1685 of March 18, 2003.
Since that posting I have done considerable research on the Touseys. The starting point, of course, is that early genealogists believed Joseph's wife to be Mary Tousey, and they clearly did not pull this idea out of thin air.
My plan is to post Tousey findings in detail only after I have been able to have church records in England searched for records of Tousey marriages and deaths that might cast light on who came to the New World. However, I will summarize where things stand at this point, and if anyone has questions or additional information on any aspect of this, please e-mail me and I will try to be as helpful as I can.
The existence of a Thomas Tousey in Wethersfield is well established. He probably was the Thomas Tousey who was christened 27 May 1650 at St. Alphage, Greenwich, Kent, England and was the son of a Thomas Tousey. Thomas of Wethersfield had two children, a daughter Elizabeth born in 1685 and a son Thomas born in 1688. Elizabeth Tousey on May 3, 1706, married Josiah Churchill, the son of Joseph's younger brother Benjamin. Thomas of Wethersfield may have arrived in Wethersfield as early as 1674, the year that Joseph Churchill married.
There also were Touseys in Hartford, where Thomas Tousey of Wethersfield had a mill. A Thomas Tousey, son of a William Tousey, was baptized in Hartford on September 25, 1687.
Both Thomas and Mary were common names among the English Touseys. Thomas of St. Alphage had a sister Mary christened 12 September 1647. Another Mary was christened in the same parish 14 September 1648, daughter of Peet or Peter. A third Tousey family in St. Alphage had a Thomas Tousey christened on 26 October 1645. Two younger Marys in nearby counties were of the right age to have been Joseph's wife, and one of the other Thomases in England at the time had a still-undeciphered New World connection revealed through the will of his brother John.
Malcolm Churchill
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