The last Balderston in my line is my maternal great grandmother Mary. I can trace her line back well past John “The Emigrant” [or Immigrant – depending on source] Balderston who came to the colonies in 1727.
John, “The Emigrant” became a Quaker in order to marry Hannah Cooper.
From:
THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER XXIX, UPPER MAKEFIELD, 1737 from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., 1876 and 1905* editions
CHAPTER XXIX
UPPER MAKEFIELD
1737
The Balderstons were first known in England about the time of the invasion of the Prince of Orange, 1688, when John Balderston was settled at Norwich with a family of children. He may have been one of the invading host, for tradition says the family originally came from Norway, thence to Holland and then to England. It is said the name was devised from that of the Norwegian god “Balder.”
The eldest son of the family, John, was the only one mentioned for generations, a custom that curtails family informantion.
The second John Balderston married twice at Norwich and died there, and it was his son, John, the third, born 1702, who came to America, but there is some uncertainty as to the time. He settled in Upper Makefield and married Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Cooper, but subsequently removed to Solebury. They had a family of eleven children: John, Jonathan, Bartholomew, Timothy, Jacob, Hannah, Isaiah, Sarah Mordecai, Lydia and Sarah.
Moser Family History 