Thank ye the Lord

No new info today, but we did discover an amazing ancestor in our pedigree chart. Trace the Cutler line back 5 greats and you get to Christopher Cutler, whose mother was Hannah Shephard. Her grandfather Ralph Shephard was married to Thank ye the Lord, who was born 30 March 1609 in Northampton, England.
Other records indicate her name as Thanks, Thankful, etc. but her last name really was Lord. She passed the name to one of her daughters, and there are 4 generations of Thanks or Thankfuls.
Note that Thanks Lord named one of her other daughters Trial, a name that also continued for a few generations.
She died in 1693 in Massachusetts, and is buried in Old Rock Cemetery of Middlesex MA.

I am not sure how the move to America went for them. Her parents died in Connecticut, and her grandchildren were born back in England, not returning to the New World until John Cutler joined the restored church and moved his family to Utah. (He died in Salt Lake City in 1894 at age 79).
Thank ye the Lord's son Ralph Shephard (Jr.) has some potentially conflicting information: Born in Massachusetts in Nov 1659, he was christened in England 3 1/2 years later. Likewise, he supposedly died in Massachusetts in 1723, but was buried in England (just over a month later). Since his wife and children were born in England (in Stubley of Derbys), I suspect he returned from the colonies, meaning the family only spent one generation in America.

Smith Marriage Record

I am ordering microfilm number 1638096 to confirm our recorded marriage information for Amasa Jay Smith and his wife Dora/Isidor in St. James, Watonwan, MN on 29 Feb 1880. Hopefully it will also have information on her real name, her parents, and birth info.

Laura found her on someone else's family tree with rather suspect information, but listing her parents and Gerard A. Dougherty and Mary Harding, who were married in Hancock county, Illinois on July 3, 1856. They appear in 1880 in a Keen, IL census with an 18 year old daughter Deora. This could possibly be her, but not likely, since we see her in a MN census that same year already married to Amasa Jay and with a brother named Jack, who doesn't appear as a son of Gerard.