GUIRE, Luke

Notes:

Luke's estate was distributed December 6, 1751:
widow Mary;
son Ebenezer; Nathan; John; Luke; Stephen;
Sarah Rayment;
Hannah Lee;
Mary Wood;
Rebecca, Abigail, and Ruth Guire.
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Mary's estate (dower portion) was distributed June 11, 1767:
heirs of eldest son Ebenezer;
heirs of Sarah late wife of Lemuel Raymond, of Norwalk;
heirs of Ruth late wife of Daniel Sturges, of Fairfield;
Nathan; John; Luke and Stephen Guire;
Mary wife of Daniel Wood; Hannah wife of Enos Lee;
Abigail wife of Nehemiah Seeley;
Rebecca wife of Able Seeley.
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Luke married ADAMS, Mary Abt 1711, Fairfield, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of ADAMS, Nathan and JAMES, Mary) was born Abt 1698; died Between 14 Apr 1767 and 10 Jun 1767, Connecticut (Distribution of Estate). [Group Sheet]

1. GUIRE, John was born , Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died Abt 1771, Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
2. GUIRE, Mary
3. GUIRE, Nathan
4. GUIRE, Rebecca
5. GUIRE, Ruth
6. GUIRE, Luke
7. GUIRE, Stephen
8. GUIRE, Sarah was born 23 Nov 1712; died Yes, date unknown.
9. GUIRE, Ebenezer was born 27 Apr 1718; died Yes, date unknown.
10. GUIRE, Joanna was born 28/28 Feb 1719/1720.

Notes:

Pioneer Irish in New England
CHAPTER XIII
page 217
The name Guire turns up frequently in Fairfield County, Conn., records. Eleanor Guire, daughter of Luke of Fairfield, was born about 1691; Mary Guire, daughter of Luke, was born about 1695, and Hannah, daughter of Luke Guire , was baptised at Fairfield on April 19, 1697, and they married into Fairfield families named Turney, Stewart and Hall, respectively. Luke Guire married Rebecca Odell, daughter of John and Mary Odell of Stratford.
In 1699 Luke Guire (2) , his brothers, Eben and John, and three sisters were mentioned in Fairfield County probate records, and on February 3, 1716, Samuel Hall conveyed to Luke Guire (2) lands in Fairfield formerly owned by Luke Guire (1).
History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, ed. by Donald Lines Jacobus, Vol. 1, parts 1 to 6.59.
These people are mentioned here because I am convinced that the family name originally was McGuire. Many Irish families are known to have dropped the prefix Mac or O after coming to the colonies; in at least one instance, that of a Guire or Guier family in Gloucester, Mass., their immigrant ancestor was called Maguier, and some of the descendants of one Patrick McGuire, who came from Ireland and settled at Falmouth, Maine, in the early part of the eighteenth century, are known as Makquier and Quire.
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On Oct. 26, 1692, Robert Sillman and Nathan Adams exchange land, lots to run back to land once the property of Edward Adams and Joseph Patchen, both deceased, now owned by Nathan Adams - Fairfield L.R.,v.A:355. Abraham, Nathan, Daniel, David and John Adams and Luke Guire, son-in-law of Edward Adams, divide land of Edward Adams and Joseph Patchen. - Ibid.,v.3:227.

Luke — ODELL, Rebecca. Rebecca (daughter of ODELL, John and WALKER, Mary) was born Abt 1671, Connecticut; died 1741. [Group Sheet]

Luke married ADAMS, Mary 23/23 Feb 1661/1662, Fairfield, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of ADAMS, Edward and PATCHEN, Margaret) was born Abt 1647; died Between Mar 1711/2 and 7 May 1712. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

John was made freeman by the General Assembly in 1664. In 1666, in behalf of his father William, he joined with Francis Hall in a deed of partition. In 1673 and 1682 he received grants of land from the town of Fairfield; in 1697, he was a member of the Church in Stratfield; in 1707 he made his will appointing wife Mary executrix.
http://www.familyhistorypages.com/Odell.htm
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John married WALKER, Mary Bef 1671, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of WALKER, Robert and LEAGER, Mary) was born 1 Nov 1654, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusettes; died Abt 1712, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

EDWARD ADAMS was of New Haven, 1640; Milford, 1646; Fairfield, 1650; died in 1671; married Mary, surname not known, but who married (second) Anthony Beers and died in 1687. Land was granted him at Milford, January 19, 1645-6; in 1653 and 1656, he entered for record several pieces of land in Fairfield.
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His will, dated August 7, 1671, inventoried November 11, 1671, named wife, Mary; sons Samuel, Abraham, daughter Mary Murwin and her son Luke Guire, sons Nathaniel, John, and Nathan.
Children of Edward and Mary Adams:
I--Samuel, m. Mary Meeker.
II--Mary, b. abt. 1647; d. abt. April, 1712; m. (first) Feb. 23, 1663, Luke Guire; m. (second) ..... Merwin; m. (third) Stephen Sherwood.
III--ABRAHAM, b. Sept. 9, 1650. (See following.)
IV--Nathaniel, b. bef. 1656; d. bef. 1693, unmarried.
V--John, b. after 1656; d. 1693.
VI--Nathan, b. after 1656; d. 1748-9; m. Mary James.
SOURCE: Bennett and Allied Families, Page 18

Edward married PATCHEN, Margaret Abt 1645, Fairfield, Connecticut. Margaret (daughter of PATCHEN, Joseph and BENNETT, Elizabeth) was born Abt 1621; died 2 Dec 1687, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

William appears to have had a brother, Richard (1605- ), who married Ursula Franklyn, 12 Nov 1627 in Southampton. Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, has William married to Rebecca Franklin in Concord, Massachusetts, 4 May 1629. Manning says he m (1) Agnes Franklin and (2) Rebecca Brown (1633). Mais has Agnes Franklin, daughter of William and Ursula Franklin, the mother of five children by William: William (1630), Thomas (1632), John (1634), James (1640), and Rebecca (1642).

William Came from England to Concord in 1639; probably a member of Peter Bulkeley's congregation. Bulkeley was born in the parish of Odell, Bedford, England. In 1644, William Odell moved to Fairfield, Connecticut, and his son William became one of the principal proprietors of Rye, New York. (NEHGR, 29:203; 137:37).

William may have been a brother of Ursula Wodell (also written Odle), who married Christoper Wooley at Concord in 1646 (King, NEHGR, 60:91). His will, proved 6 June 1676, mentions, among others, sons William and John and daughter Rebecca Moorehouse. Cranfield, Bedford, England, is a small parish about eight miles from the village of Odell. The Cranfield church register records nearly seventy entries of Odell baptisms, marriages, and burials between 1602 and 1625, the name variously written Wodell, Odell, Odle, Woddell, Woddle, etc. Among these: Willliam, son of William Wodell of Warleyend, baptised 24 Feb 1602, and William Odle of Worley buried 22 Jul 1615. This may be the record of the baptism of the William Odell who came to New England and the burial of his father. The name "Warleyend" is doubtless that of a hamlet about one mile from Cranfield, which appears on an old map of Bedfordshire as "Wallerd" or "Wall End." In Cranfield Parish there was in 1632 a district, or possibly an estate, known as "Virginia." At Concord, the original road cut through the woods by the first settlers had been called, since 1650, "the Virginia Road" and the district through which it runs, "Virginy." The plain at the end of Virginia Road was described as "Cranefield" as early as 1648. It would seem that these names, Virginia and Cranefield, were given by the early settlers of Concord in memory of their English home (See NEHGR, 45:7-8).

William Odell is purportedly memorialized as a "Concord Planter" on a plaque in the Fairfield Public Library together with Rev. John Jones, Thomas Bulkley, Thomas Jones, John Tompkins, Daniel Bulkley, Joseph Middlebrook, Ephraim Wheeler, Thomas Wheeler, Jr., James Bennett, Richard Lettiss, John Ebats, Peter Johnson, George Squire, and Benjamin Turney. Ridge, Bateman Connection, 173:
http://www.familyhistorypages.com/Odell.htm
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William — BROWN, Rebecca. Rebecca was born 1606; died Abt 13 May 1654, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

Robert — LEAGER, Mary. [Group Sheet]