Compiled May 5, 2026 - Person Sheet
Compiled May 5, 2026 - Person Sheet
Memoparents uncertain; AGBI lists birthplace as Massachusetts
Immigration1657, Arrived At Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts949 Age: 21
OccupationCarpenter, Proprieter
EducationSolid, need tie to parents
FatherJohn Bannister (1599-1663)
MotherMary Murdock (1609-1714)
Spouses
Birth1649, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts931
Birth11 Mar 1642, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts948
Death30 Mar 1698931 Age: 49
BurialSouth Burying Place, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts951
EducationSolid
FatherThomas Goodenow (1608->1666)
MotherJane Ruddick (1613-1666)
Notes for Christopher Bannister
Perhaps from Banbury, Oxford. A carpenter who settled at Marlborough and had property there in 1657. Christopher Bannister's name appears in the colonial records of Marlborough. In 1663 he was on a list giving rates to pay for the minister . In property he had 16 acres of house lot, 4 acres upland, 8 acres of the first division of meadowland, 6.5 in the second division, and 8 rods of cedar swamp.
From unknown source:
Christopher Banister’s house lot was on the north of John Ruddocke’s, and bounded on the east by the Indian Line, being near the old John Gleason place.
From unknown source:
Christopher Banister’s house lot was on the north of John Ruddocke’s, and bounded on the east by the Indian Line, being near the old John Gleason place.