Frederick WATERBURY

Abt 1779 - 1855  (76 years)

• Name	Frederick WATERBURY  [2]
  	One of his descendants identified his wife as Betsey Lockwood. He was married with two female children before the time of the 1810 census, and was possibly married as early as 1800, when he does not seem to have been included in his father's household. The gravestone (no longer standing) of Betsey, wife of Frederick Waterbury, in the Slason Cemetery said that she died 16 December 1849 age 64. If she was indeed a Lockwood by birth, then she was probably the Betsey Lockwood born in Stamford 8 November 1787, daughter of Jeremiah Lockwood Jr. and his wife Elizabeth Holcraft. In fact, Frederick Waterbury was named administrator of the estate of Jeremiah Lockwood Junior, late of Stamford, on 2 November 1814. There was only one Frederick Waterbury inStamford or Darien during the time period covered by the censuses of 1810 through 1850, and he has been shown in Part 1 of this article to be a son of Lt. John Waterbury. However, Frederick Waterbury was also involved in a series of deeds to and from distant Waterbury cousins from 1813 to 1818. These deeds related to the property of John Waterbury who died in Stamford in 1813. Family members associated with these transactions included a Henry Waterbury, who might be confused with Frederick's brother. But since this Henry Waterbury was always designated "of New York City" in these and other Darien deeds as late as 1842, he could not have been identical with Frederick's brother, Henry Waterbury, who was in Ohio by 1840 (even though that Henry had lived in New York City at one time). Perhaps Frederick acted merely as an agent for his distant Waterbury cousins, or perhaps his wife was closely related to these distant cousins. Stamford land records of 1811 and 1820 indicate that Frederick Waterbury owned various properties in Stamford in those years, two of which were purchased from his brother Peter Waterbury on 1 April 1811 and 8 November 1811. All of these holdings appear to have been in the Hoyt Street area that became part of Darien in 1820. In 1850 census, Frederick Waterbury, age 73, was living in Darien with the family of Belina W. Noyes, his son-in-law. Frederick and Betsey (Lockwood?) Waterbury had a large family of ten children, but information on most of them is sparse. Frederick did not leave an estate to probate, so the usual list of heirs and land transactions among them are completely absent. No family Bible ha been discovered, and the Darien civil and church records are also little help. Fortunately, a small notebook kept by Belina W. Noyes has survived and its contents were published in 1973. That notebook recorded birth dates for all of Frederick and Betsey's children even though no relationships were stated. It also has death dates for some of them, as well as birth records for all of the Noyes children shown below. [1]
  Birth	Abt 1779	Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1850	Living with daughter, Mary Noyes, in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut   [3]
  Death	05 Mar 1855	Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1]
  Burial	Slason Cemetery, Darien, Connecticut   [1, 4]
  Person ID	I64408	Main Tree
  Last Modified	4 May 2020

  
  

  Father	Lieut. John WATERBURY,   b. 20 Feb 1753, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 06 Aug 1829 (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Rebecca WEED,   b. 1757   d. Bef 01 Feb 1797 (Age < 40 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	08 Dec 1778	Middlesex Congregational Church   [2]
  Family ID	F25974	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Betsey LOCKWOOD,   b. 8 Nov 1787, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut d. 16 Dec 1849, Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 62 years)
  Children	+ 1. Rebecca Ann WATERBURY,   b. 9 Oct 1807, Connecticut d. 21 Jan 1857 (Age 49 years)  [Birth]   2. Caroline WATERBURY,   b. 14 Mar 1809  [Birth] + 3. Charles F. WATERBURY,   b. 9 Oct 1811   d. 10 Mar 1864, Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut (Age 52 years)  [Birth]   4. William Lockwood WATERBURY,   b. 30 Nov 1813   d. 24 Dec 1839 (Age 26 years)  [Birth] + 5. Mary Elizabeth WATERBURY,   b. 12 Dec 1815, Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut d. 1 May 1890, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut (Age 74 years)  [Birth] + 6. Cornelia WATERBURY,   b. 10 Sep 1817, Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut d. 10 Mar 1900, Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut (Age 82 years)  [Birth] + 7. Emily Frances WATERBURY,   b. 24 Sep 1819, Connecticut d. 29 Feb 1888, Connecticut (Age 68 years)  [Birth] + 8. John N. WATERBURY,   b. 31 Jul 1821   d. 13 Apr 1861, Railroad accident (Age 39 years)  [Birth]   9. Frances WATERBURY,   b. 16 Mar 1824  [Birth]   10. Sarah Jane WATERBURY,   b. 10 Mar 1827  [Birth]
  Family ID	F25975	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 05 Mar 1855 - Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headstones

  Frederick Waterbury Headstone Frederick, son of John Waterbury and Rebecca Weed, is the husband of Betsey Lockwood. He is buried in the Slawson Cemetery in Darien, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. Created by: Bob Furtaw Photo added by: Carl Myers

  
  

• Sources

  [S04332] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2011, Vol. 165 January. [S04318] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2010, Vol. 164 October. [S5547] 1850 Census Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [S6901] Ancestry.com: Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934.