David & Anna Wilcox
Great-Great Grandparents of Winston Churchill
David Wilcox
Findagrave.com MEMORIAL ID: 40338707
David Wilcox Headstone Inscription
"In Memory of
DAVID WILCOX
who was born in Born at
Dartmouth, Mass.
February 11th, 1763
died August 23, 1828"
Description
When David Wilcox was born on 10 January 1762, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Wilcox Jr, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Smith, was 20. He married Anna Baker in April 1791, in Palmyra, Ontario, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 23 August 1829, in Macedon, Wayne, New York, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Macedon, Wayne, New York, United States.
Anna Wilcox Headstone Inscription
"In Memory of
Anna, wife of
DAVID WILCOX.
who was born in Born at
Novascotia, May 29,
1764, died Dec. 28 1813"
Description
When Anna Baker was born on 29 May 1761, in Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Joseph Baker, was 22 and her mother, Experience Martin, was 21. She married David Wilcox in April 1791, in Palmyra, Ontario, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 28 December 1813, in Macedon, Wayne, New York, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Wayne, Macedon, New York, United States in the Old Baptist Cemetery.
Anna Wilcox
Findagrave.com MEMORIAL ID: 8902053
The Churchill Myth Debunked-No Native American Blood
The tales of Winston Churchill being related to Native Americans is nothing new; Winston himself boosting that he was related to the Iroquois Tribe through his family ties of Jennie Jerome’s maternal grandmother Clarissa Hall. Clarrissa was the child of Winston's Great-Great Grandmother, Anna (Baker) Wilcox and David Wilcox, Winston's Great-Great Grandfather.
In Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol. 1, originally published in 1969, Ralph G. Martin wrote that Anna Baker's, “mother’s maiden name is not recorded in the genealogies” and “is believed to have been an Iriquois [sic] Indian.”
The background and family history of Anna Baker was relatively unknown until recently, when a 1951 transcript of the Baker family tree was discovered. Below is a brief summary of what was written on the transcript according to the official winstonchurchill.org.
"Joseph Baker, born at Jamestown, Rhode Island on 12 February 1738 or 1739, married one Experience Martin in Swansea, Massachusetts on 4 September 1760. Experience Martin was the daughter of Eleazer Martin of Swansea (died 1749) and his wife, also named Experience, who, as a widow, was recorded in a land transaction of 30 March 1776. Circa 1761 Joseph and Experience Baker, together with Joseph’s brother William and two male cousins, George Sherman Sr. and Jr., migrated to Sackville in the newly created British Province of Nova Scotia, where Anna reputedly was born. They were all living at Sackville in 1770, but later returned to New England. The ancestry of Joseph Baker is well documented."
The genealogy of the Baker family is also updated and displayed on findagrave.com.
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Regarding the geography, whether it was even possible for the Bakers' to interact with the Iroquois is also highly unlikely. Anna Baker was born in Nova Scotia in May 1761, in an area regarded as the 14th American colony. In these pre-Revolutionary days when Nova Scotia was often regarded as a 14th American colony, the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle restored the island of Cape Breton and its mighty Louisbourg fortress to France, and Captain John Gorham was sent by Governor Shirley of Massachusetts to organize Nova Scotia’s defense. In 1749, with the founding of the British fortress of Halifax to counterbalance Louisbourg, Gorham’s assignment was to construct the first outpost fort from Halifax at the mouth of the Sackville River, the chief artery into the interior, to protect the settlement from the French and their allies, the Micmac Indians.
Known as a crack militiaman and a powerful Indian fighter, John Gorham installed his band of 60 to 100 Rangers, most of them Mohawk Indians from New England, at the new Fort Sackville. By 1761, when Anna Baker was born in Sackville, Gorham had died, and the command rested with his brother Joseph, who undertook some reorganization. The former militia became a unit in the regular army, and a blockhouse was erected. It may have been that Anna’s father, uncle, and male cousins became soldiers in the new command or were attached in another capacity.
To conclude, there is no proof of Native American heritage in the Churchill bloodline.