LOVEJOY

LOVEJOY to Blanchard to Leadbeater

The Lovejoy name and its travels

The Lovejoy family readily traces its ancestry to England where mainly in Buckinghamshire and also in such other southern counties as Essex, Berkshire and Kent, there are clear records of the ancestors of the American branches back to 1460. Indeed, there has been practically no variation of the spelling of the name in nearly 500 years. Perhaps the early English parish clerks and church sextons who wrote it Lovejoy and Lovejoye could not distinguish in their alphabets between the “I” and the “j”. Similarly, those few early instances where the name is found spelling Louejouy, Lovjoy, Loujoy, Lovejoue, Lovejoi, Lovejoy, and Louyoye should ascribe to carelessness.

In America the spelling has always been Lovejoy…[The LOVEJOY GENEALOGY with biographies and history 1460-1930 by Clarence Earl Lovejoy]

Herbert Blanchard Leadbeater (1917 - 1998) (son of Helen Muriel Blanchard –LEADBEATER) Father

Helen Muriel Blanchard -LEADBEATER (1891 - 1989) (daughter of Harry Herbert Blanchard) Grandmother

Harry Herbert Blanchard (1867 - 1946) (son of Henry Fiske Blanchard) GGF

Henry Fiske Blanchard (1838 - 1917) (son of Benjamin Hill Blanchard) 2^nd GGF

Benjamin Hill Blanchard (1810 - 1865) (son of Moses Blanchard) 3^rd GGF

Moses Blanchard (1776 - 1858) (son of Stephen Blanchard III) 4^th GGF

Stephen Blanchard III (1748 - 1789) (son of Stephen Blanchard II) 5^th GGF

Stephen Blanchard II (1726 - 1802) (son of Stephen Blanchard Sr) 6^th GGF

Stephen Blanchard Sr (1702 - 1769) (son of Anne Lovejoy –BLANCHARD) 7^th GGF

Anne Lovejoy -BLANCHARD (1659 - 1724) (daughter of John Lovejoy) 8^th GGM

	=Has Find A Grave record	LOVEJOY (Blanchard, Leadbeater)
1659	1724(64) Year died – (##)	LINK = Anne (2) Lovejoy Blanchard Wife of Jonathan Blanchard I Mother of Stephen Blanchard Sr	8th GGM
		GENERATION 1 & 2
1622 Middlesex ENG	1690(68) Andover Essex MA	LOVEJOY (1) John	9th GGF
Married 1 Jan 1651
1653 Wiltshire ENG	1675(42) Lst WIFE Essex MA	LOVEJOY  Mary OSGOOD	9th GGM
	Mary Lovejoy 1652 – 1677 m. 4 Jun 1670 Joseph Wilson 1643-1718 Sarah Lovejoy 1652 – 1727 m. 23 May 1678 William Johnson 1656-1730 John Lovejoy 1655 – 1680 m.23 Mar 1678  Naomi Hoyt 1655-1687 William Lovejoy 1656 – 1748 m. 29 Nov 1680  Mary Farnham1666-1739 Anne Lovejoy -BLANCHARD 1659 – 1724(SEE ABOVE) Joseph Lovejoy 1662-1737 m 26 May 1685 Sarah Pritchard 1662-1739 Christopher Lovejoy 1662 – 1737 m 26 May 1685 Sarah Russ 1668-1745 Benjamin Lovejoy 1664 – 1689 Died at the Siege of Pemaquid (Kings Williams War) Nathaniel Lovejoy 1667 – 1752 n 21 Mar 1693 Dorothy Hoyt 1674-1714 m 16 Aug 1716 Elizabeth Wilson (DEAD END) Abigail Lovejoy 1669 – 1747 m 9 Apr 1691 Deacon Nehemiah Abbott 1667-1750 Deborah Lovejoy  1671 – 1758 m John Bayley but MORE RESEARCH NEEDED Ebenezer Lovejoy 1673 – 1760 m 11 Jul 1693 Mary Foster 1673-1763
Married 12 Nov 1676
	2ND WIFE	Hannah Langston-Pritchard-Lovejoy 1625-1705
Those below never came to America Some of the information is cloudy.
		GENERATION
1597 Middlesex	1560(53) Middlesex	LOVEJOY Rowland	10th GGF
Goldsmith and was enrolled as a scholar in Merchant Taylor's School in 1609.
Married 1622
1598 London	1630(32) London	LOVEJOY Elizabeth NEALE	10TH GGM
		GENERATION
1571 Buckinghamshire	1604 Middlesex	LOVEJOY John	11th GGF
Married 22 Sep 1591
1575 London	1625 Middlesex	LOVEJOY  Cecelia BROMALL	11th GGM
		GENERATION
1530 Buckinghamshire	1582 Buckinghamshire	LOVEJOY William	12th GGF
Married 4 Jun 1569
Buckinghamshire	1600 Buckinghamshire	LOVEJOY-RANDESON Joanna TEMPLE	12 GGM
Confusion about marriage or marriages. He married Joanna Temple 1569 but on marriage register “William Lovejoy married Johane Tampale in 1574. The confusion is that William had at least 3 children born before that date. Did he have a previous wife, Joanna Temple or was he in reality married in 1569 then delayed the registration.
1490 Buckinghamshire	1573 Buckinghamshire	LOVEJOY Thomas	13th GGF
Married 1525
1494 Buckinghamshire	1566 Buckinghamshire	LOVEJOY  Johanne BROCK	13th GGM
There is more but I’m not adding them. SEE The LOVEJOY GENEALOGY WITH BIOGRAPHIES AND HISTORY 1460-1930 by CLARENCE EARL LOVEJOY For more information

NOTES

·         Andover was one of the first “inland” settlements after the coast land along Cape Cod and Massachusetts bays. It was originally called Cochichewick and continued to be known as that until the town of Andover was incorporated and confirmed in 1646.

·         The exact date of the settlement of Andover is uncertain therefore it is hard to determine the exact date that John Lovejoy arrived in America – it is believed to be shortly after 1634 but may have been 1638 or later.

·         John Lovejoy was one of the first settlers and householders, being the 17^th on the town’s earliest list.

SOURCES 
1 -- The LOVEJOY GENEALOGY WITH BIOGRAPHIES AND HISTORY 1460-1930 by CLARENCE EARL LOVEJOY
2 -- Articles from the Andover Townsman by Charlotte Helen Abbott on Andover genealogy