My biggest discover this month! The LAMBERTS finally are coming!

I have worked on my elusive LAMBERT's of Reading, MA., for seven long years. My 5-great grandmother was MARY LAMBERT. She was born in Reading, MA., in 1734. Her birth records were listed in both Reading and Wakefield, MA. Problematic was that the Reading record listed her mother as MARY. There was only one LAMBERT family living in Reading in this era. THOMAS LAMBERT and ELIZABETH NICHOLS who had a child a child before MARY and others afterward. This left me in a kind of limbo for years. UNTIL last week. I happened to go into the GOOGLE NEWS ARCHIVE and discovered two amazing posts to the Boston Evening Transcript (a most valuable genealogy column was carried in this paper for years).

I first discovered a post by (J.S.R.) my 2-great granduncle JAMES SULLIVAN RUSSELL (my 2-great grandfather's older brother) who was an accomplished genealogy researcher. I find items by him from time to time.
He (J.S.R) was born in Carlisle, MA., in 1807 and was school teacher in Lowell for something like 45 years. JAMES sent in an item on our LAMBERT family of Reading on Aug. 1, 1899, AND a little over one week later on Aug. 9, 1899, a follow up item appeared giving information from a family bible that lists my MARY's birth and death date (that I didn't) have.
This item was singed M.D.S. (wish I knew who this was)

These two items squarely place MARY as the daughter of THOMAS LAMBERT and ELIZABETH (not MARY) NICHOLS. I have been finding tons of their descendants ever since. I will update my website this weekend with all the new information.

Here are the wonderful posts from the even more wonderful Boston Evening Transcript:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4fUzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7yIIAAAAIBAJ&pg=4387,3540108&dq=boston+evening+transcript+aug+2+1899&hl=en
Boston Evening Transcript - Aug 1, 1899 Page 11
GENEALOGY
3671. LAMBERT.
The LAMBERT pedigree extends back eighteen generations. The coat of armsis thus described: he beareth three coat: two quarterly: first chevrons, or between two lambs:second, checky, or an azure: third, sinister, three roses: gules: all surrounded by close helmut,gules around a fox, with head and breast of a woman holding up a rose in one hand: scrollworkgules, all but in argent."
WILLIAM and THOMAS LAMBERT were brothers. They came to Boston in about 1715, in their teensunder the patronage of their uncle WILLIAM. THOMAS their father, was born in 1675, and died in 1715.
The young WILLIAM was sugar refiner, married JUDITH SIMONDS.
Their children were:
WILLIAM, m. MRS. MARY KING:SUSANNA, m. NATHANIEL DORR:SALLY:HARRIET, m. WILLIAM BLANCHARD.CHARLOTTE, m. PETER WAINWRIGHT.LUCY, m. NATHANIEL FELLOWS.
WILLIAM settled in Roxbury;
But, THOMAS settled in Reading. He became a gentleman of wealth and leisure.He m. ELIZABETH NICHOLS, dau. of THOMAS and REBECCA (EATON) NICHOLS, and granddaughterof RICHARD NICHOLS, of Ipswich.
The children of THOMAS and ELIZABETH were:
1. WILLIAM, a bachelor.2. THOMAS, b. 1730.3. JOHN, a captain in the Revolution.4. MARY, b. 1734, m. JONATHAN KIDDER of Billerica.5. MARGARET, 1st m. _____ BRIGGS, m. 2) REV. DR. CUMMINGS of Billerica Nov. 14, 1786.6. ANNA, m. DR. CUMMINGS (JSR note: same DR. CUMMINGS as above) May 19, 1763.7. JULIA, b. 1742, m. REV. PETER WHITNEY of Petersham March 17, 1768.8. SARAH, m. _______HAMMOCK.J.S.R. (J.S.R., was my 2-great granduncle JAMES SULLIVAN RUSSELL)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5_UzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7yIIAAAAIBAJ&pg=4018,4256601&dq=thomas+lambert+married+elizabeth+nich&hl=en
Boston Evening Transcript - Aug 9, 1899
3071.
The children of THOMAS and ELIZABETH (NICHOLS) LAMBERT given in the transcript of Aug. 2, do not altogether agree with the entryin a Common Prayer book belonging to one of the family dated 1766.
This family record gives:

ELIZABETH NICHOLS and THOMAS LAMBERT were married Sept. 25, 1729,
Their children were:
THOMAS LAMBERT, b. July 13, 1730.ELIZABETH LAMBERT, b. May 29, 1732; d. Jan. 25, 1771MARY LAMBERT, b. Aug. 19, 1734; d. May 1799MARGARET LAMBERT, b. June 12, 1736.ANN LAMBERT, b. Feb. 7, 1738.JULIA LAMBERT, b. April 9, 1732. (correction: April 9, 1742)WILLIAM LAMBERT, b. Oct. 30, 1744.JOHN LAMBERT, b. Dec. 6, 1746.SARAH LAMBERT, b. Feb. 6, 1749; d. March 1789.M. D. S.