1. William Henshall  m Margerie Gyll 
 2.. Thomas Henshall (?-(c1631)
 3... William Henshawe (c1608-1644) m Katherine Houghton (1615-1651)
 4.... Daniel Henshawe (1644-1732)
       +Mary (Bull) Allen (?-1719)
 5.....  Daniel Henshaw 

Daniel Henshawe     [ID 00189]

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    (Daniel Henshawe)^4,a    (Daniel Henshaw)¹    (Daniel Hanshaw)^b

Born 1644.^4,1    (c1642).^b

Joshua Henshaw's pedigree (prepared in 1701) conflicts on Daniel's date of birth: "aet 55 ann." (making his birth about 1646) "- and about 7 years @ 1651" (making his birth about 1644).⁴    The "Hinshaw and Henshaw Families" lists his date of birth as 1644.¹    His gravestone shows, when he died in 1732, it was in^b Ye 90[th] YEAR OF HIS AGE (making his birth about 1642).

Daniel was deported to New England with his brother Joshua in 1653.⁴    (The Hinshaw/Henshaw book lists the date of deportation as 1654).¹    See: The Story of Joshua and Daniel.

He married Mary (Bull) Allen.⁴    (Mary Bull)⁴    (Mary Ball)^a    Mary, daughter of ?? Bull or Ball "of Bury St. Edmund in Co. Suffolk, and widow of 1) Robert Pond and 2) Nicholas Allen of Dorchester in New England".⁴    She was born about 1636.^4,38,c

Mary had first married Robert Pond, by whom she had children:

Mary died Nov 19 1719, aged 83.^38,c,d

Daniel Henshawe died Aug 25 1732, age 90; buried Milton Cemetery, 211 Centre Street, Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.^b

A short biographical sketch of Daniel was published in the 1860 "Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England" [edited here only to eliminate abbreviations]:^c,d

HENSHAW, HINSHAW, or HINSHEW, DANIEL, Milton.    He was sent to our country with his brother in their youth, says a doubtful tradition, was first of Dorchester, married Mary, widow of Nicholas Allen, who had been widow of Robert Pond, had Daniel, who died unmarried His wife died 19 November 1719, in 83d year.

Photo: Daniel Henshaw gravestone Milton Cemetery ^b

SOURCES

1. "The Hinshaw and Henshaw Families", by William Hinshaw; edited by Milo Custer; private printing, Bloomington, Illinois, 1911; Frank I. Miller Co., printers. LDS microfilm number 1402822.

4. The "New England Historical and Genealogical Register", vol 22, 1868, The New England Historical and Genealogical Society. This issue includes a complete copy of the recorded pedigree of Joshua Henshaw.

38. An article appearing in the magazine "Hobbies", February 1967, titled "At the Sign of the Crest - Henshaw Coat-of-Arms", by Hazel Karft Eilers copy supplied by Fontella Hinshaw.

(a) "Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England", volume 3,
James Savage, Boston: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1860-1862.

(b) http://www.findagrave.com.

(c) "Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England", volume 2
James Savage, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1965; http://www.ancestry.com.

(d) "Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England", volume 2
James Savage, Genealogical Publishing Company; American History and Genealogy Project:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk2/henshaw-higginbottom.htm.

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