from the Durkee Society:

William Durkee (Durgy) was born in Ireland about 1632 and may have been the first Irishman to settle in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He arrived on 9 Nov 1663 as the indentured servant of Thomas Bishop, having been in the Barbadoes, probably as a slave of Cromwells. Martha Cross was born 14 Feb 1643 of Robert and Anna/Hannah (Jordon). Martha was probably employed in the household of Thomas Bishop. They married in Ipswich, Mass. on 20 Dec 1664 after Robert Cross sued William for abusing his daughter and William countersued Robert for withdrawing his consent to marriage after giving it. Two weeks later, their first child John was born. Son Thomas was born in 1666, daughter Martha in 1668, and son William in 1672. Elizabeth born about 1670, Mercy, Anna born about 1680, Mary, Jane, and Henry? were also probably children of William and Martha. Since William would not renounce his Catholicism, he could not own land. Almost all Durkees in the United States and Canada are descended from the three sons: John, Thomas, and William. One exception are a small group in Wisconsin descended from Herman and William Durkey who arrived there about 1870 from Germany. Another exception spell their name Durgy and descend from John Durgy who married Hannah (Conger) in 1784 in Fairfield, Conn.

• Married: 20 DEC 1664 in Ipswich, Essex, MA U. S. A.
• Note:

  from TORREY:
  
  DIRKYE, William (1634, 1632?-1712) & Martha CROSE/CROSS, dau. Robert; 20 Dec 1664; Ipswich {Cary Anc. 44; Cross Anc. 42; Robbins etc. 30; Sv. 1:478; Reg. 68:202, 112:225; Woodstock 4:600; Davis: Anc. of Phoebe Tilton 131; Bridges Anc. 34}

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1. John DIRKYE b: 1664
2. Thomas DIRKYE b: 1666
3. Martha DIRKYE b: 1668
4. William DIRKYE b: 1672
5. Mercy DIRKYE b: ABT 1680

1. Abbrev: Durkee Society
   Title: The Society of Genealogy of Durkee
   4100 East Theresa Street
   Long Beach, CA 90814-1758 U. S. A.
   Telephone (562) 438-5582
   http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/durkeefa.htm
   Bernice B. Gunderson
   Kathy Durkee
   Robin K. Durkee
   
   Cornelius E. Durkee began work collecting Durkee information about 1875. By 1915 he had 5000 names with extensive cross references. In 1925, at age 88, he sent his work to Joseph Durkee, who intended to publish it. Joseph's daughters and a son-in-law started putting these records into manuscript form by 1947. Eventually, the manuscript ended up in the hands of the Society's President and Editor by 1977. Since then, steady progress toward publication of the genealogy of Durkee has been made, with publication in the near future.
2. Abbrev: Torrey's New England Marriages
   Title:
   New England Marriages Prior To 1700
   
   Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior To 1700 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1985)
   Repository:
   Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
   Boston, MA 02116
   U. S. A.
   
   Repository:
   Name: Patrick McDonald Personal Library
   Dural, NSW 2158
   AUSTRALIA
3. Abbrev: ME & MA Families (Walter Goodwin Davis)
   Title:
   Maine and Massachusetts Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis
   
   Walter Goodwin Davis, Maine and Massachusetts Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis
   
   (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996) Family Tree Maker CD #194
   
   Three volume set: I. Allanson to French, II. Gardner to Moses, and III. Neal to Wright.
   
   The multi-ancestor compendia compiled and published by Walter Goodwin Davis is one of the major achievements of twentieth-century genealogy. These volumes authoritatively cover 180 families, all of Davis's colonial forebears plus nineteen English families in the immediate ancestry of American immigrants.
   
   The Davis opus is undoubtedly the premier work for northern New England, and an often essential companion volume to the celebrated Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, which it considerably expands, especially for many Essex County families with ties further north. Almost anyone with considerable New England ancestry--and as many as 100 million living Americans, about 40 percent of the population, have some colonial New England forebears--will descend from one or more, often a dozen or more, of the families herein.
   
   Repository:
   Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
   Boston, MA 02116
   U. S. A.
   
   Repository:
   Name: Patrick McDonald Personal Library
   Dural, NSW 2158
   AUSTRALIA
   
   Page: Vol. 2, p. 384
4. Abbrev: Bridges Anc. (1960)
   Title: Samuel Willard Bridges, Bridges Genealogy including Britton, DeNike (Boston, MA: George H. Ellis & Company, 1960)
   Repository:
   Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
   Boston, MA 02116
   U. S. A.
   
   Page: p. 34
5. Abbrev: Woodstock, CT Families
   Title:
   WOODSTOCK, CT FAMILIES
   
   Clarence Winthrop Bowen, The History of Woodstock Connecticut, Genealogies of Woodstock Families, 8 volumes (Norwood, MA: The Plimpton Press, 1926-1943 [reprinted by Higginson])
   Repository:
   Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
   Boston, MA 02116
   U. S. A.
   
   Page: Vol. 4, p. 600
6. Abbrev: SAVAGE'S DICTIONARY
   Title:
   A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those who Came before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register
   
   James Savage; compiled by O. P. Dexter, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those who Came before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register
   
   (The best known and most frequently used genealogical dictionary.This monumental work gives the name of every settler who came to New England before 1692, regardless of his rank, station in life or fortune. Traces the descendants of each person, giving dates of marriage and death, dates of birth, marriage and death of his children, and the birth dates and names of his grandchildren, thus recording the beginning of the third generation in New England. Binding is 4 vols. 2,541 pp.) Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 65-18541
   
   (Boston: 1860-1862
   
   Reprinted with "Genealogical Notes and Errata," excerpted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, April, 1873, pp. 135-139, And A Genealogical Cross Index of the Four Volumes of the Genealogical Dictionary of James Savage, by O. P. Dexter, 1884.
   
   Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore,
   1965,1969,1977,1981,1986, 1990)
   Repository:
   Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
   Boston, MA 02116
   U. S. A.
   
   Repository:
   Name: Patrick McDonald Personal Library
   Dural, NSW 2158
   AUSTRALIA
   
   Page: Vol. 1, p. 478
7. Abbrev: Cary Anc.
   Title: Henry Grosvenor Cary, Cary, Henry Grosvenor, Cary Family in America (Boston: privately printed, 1907) (Boston, MA: privately printed, 1907)
   Repository:
   Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
   Boston, MA 02116
   U. S. A.
   
   Page: p. 44
8. Abbrev: Cross Anc.
   Title: Roselle Theodore Cross, My Children's Ancestors; Data Concerning about Four Hundred New England Ancestors of the Children of Roselle Theodore Cross and His Wife Emma Asenath (Bridgman) Cross (Twinsburg, OH: The Champlin Press, 1913)
   Repository:
   Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
   Boston, MA 02116
   U. S. A.
   
   Page: p. 42
9. Abbrev: Robbins, etc.
   Title: [Brown, George S.], Genealogy of the Families Robbins, Raymond & Durkee ([Hilo, Hawaii: Herald Print, 1897-98])
   Repository:
   Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
   Boston, MA 02116
   U. S. A.
   
   Page: p.30
10. Abbrev: Vital Records of Ipswich, MA
    Title: The Essex Institute, Vital Records of Ipswich, MA to the end of the year 1849. Birth, marriage and death records kept by the Town Clerk. (Salem, MA: 1910 [reproduced on CD by Search & ReSearch Publishing Corporation, Wheat Ridge, CO 1998])
    Repository:
    Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
    Boston, MA 02116
    U. S. A.
    
    Page: Vol. 2, p. 134