Mary Dolbiar

Generation 13 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Mabel Phelps ← Mary Eno ← Mary Gillett ← William Gillett ← Jonathan Gillett ← Mary Dolbere

In brief

Baptized June 7, 1607, in Colyton, Devonshire, England. She married March 29, 1634, in Colyton, Devonshire, England. She died January 5, 1685[1686], in Windsor, Connecticut.

Family

Father

Rockey Dolbere

Mother

Mary Michell

Spouse

Jonathan Gillet

m. 1634

Children

Cornelius Gillett
b. 1633, in Dorchester, Massachusetts
m. Priscilla Kelsey (sister of Mary Kelsey (1551)) around 1658
d. June 26, 1711, in Windsor, Connecticut
Jonathan Gillett · in this line
b. Abt. December 1634 in Dorchester, Massachusetts
m. April 22/233, 1661, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. December 14, 1676, in Windsor, Connecticut
d. February 27, 1697[1698] in Windsor, Connecticut
Mary Gillett
b. c. 1635, in Dorchester, Massachusetts
m. Peter Brown, July 15, 1658, Windsor, Connecticut
Anna Gillett
b. December 29, 1639, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Samuel Filley, October 29, 1663, in Windsor, Connecticut
d. November 18, 1711, in Windsor, Connecticut
Joseph Gillett
b. Abt. July 1641 near Windsor, Connecticut
m. Elizabeth Hawks, November 1663, in Windsor, Connecticut
d. September 18, 1675, at Bloody Brook/Battle Creek when killed in action fighting indigenous people in King Philip’s war under Captain Thomas Lothrop’s command
Samuel Gillett
b. January 2, 1642[1643], in Windsor, Connecticut
d. May 9, 1676, in Hatfield, Massachusetts while fighting in King Philip’s War
John Gillett
b. October 5, 1644, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Mary Barber, July 8/18, 1669, in Windsor/Simsbury, Connecticut
d. November 1682 in Simsbury, Connecticut
Abigail Gillett
b. Abt. June 1646 near Windsor, Connecticut
d. 1649
Jeremiah Gillett
b. February 12, 1647[1648], near Windsor, Connecticut
m. Deborah Bartlett, October 15/16, 1685, in Windsor, Connecticut
d. March 1, 1692[1693], in Windsor, Connecticut
Josiah Gillett
b. Abt. July 1650 near Windsor, Connecticut
m. Joanna Tainter, June 30, 1676, in Windsor, Connecticut
d. October 29, 1736, in Colchester, Connecticut

Siblings

Joan Dolbere
b. Abt. January 1602[1603] near Colyton, Devonshire, England
d. Abt. November 1606 near Colyton, England
Anne Dolbere
b. Abt. April 1605 near Colyton, Devonshire, England
Robert Dolbere
b. Abt. May 1611 near Colyton, Devonshire, England
m. Elizabeth ____
m. Sarah Hoyt, October 12, 1646, in Colyton, England
Dorothy Dolbere
b. Abt. October 1613 near Colyton, Devonshire, England
d. Abt. Mary 1614 near Colyton, Devonshire, England
Cornelius Dolbere
b. Abt. May 1616 near Colyton, Devonshire, England
d. Abt. November 1621 near Colyton, Devonshire, England
John Dolbere
b. Abt. April 1619 near Colyton, Devonshire, England

Life story

A Colyton Marriage

Mary Dolbiar was baptized June 7, 1607, in Colyton, Devonshire, England, daughter of Rawkey Dolbere, and married Jonathan Gillett there in March 1634, later emigrating with him to New England. Mary died in Windsor, Connecticut, on January 5, 1686.

Sources (2)

Bertha Bortle Beal Aldridge, Gillette Families including some of the Descendants of the immigrants Jonathan Gillet and Nathan Gillet (Victor, New York (Bertha Bortle Beal Aldrige, 1955); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/gilletgillettgil00aldr : accessed 23 July 2026).
John Insley Coddington, “Jonathan Gillett of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn., and Mary Dolbere or Dolbiar, His Wife,” The American Genealogist 15 (1938): 208-217; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/11822/208/23575367 : accessed 24 July 2026).