Rebecca Farrand married immigrant John Throckmorton
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Rebecca Farrand married immigrant John Throckmorton
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Posted: 20 May 2003 6:19PM GMT |
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Surnames: Throckmorton & Farrand
Have you seen the thorough article "The English Ancestry of Rebecca Farrand, Wife of John (1) Throckmorton of Providence, Rhode Island" by Paul C. Reed & Leslie Mahler"? It appeared in The American Genealogist (2002), 77:110-124, 229-234 & 290-297.
According to the authors, our immigrant John Throckmorton married Rebecca Farrand by 1635. She was a daughter of Richard & Rebecca (Harrison) Farrand. Richard died in 1614, a resident of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex Co., England. The Farrand line is traced back to Roger Farrand born ca. 1450, married Isabel Dawtrie, a daughter and sole heir of William Dawtry of Carlton. Roger was the hereditary porter of Skipton Castle, Yorkshire West Riding. His ancestors had by charter been "custodian jaunuae castelli de Skipton" since before 1260. Upon his marriage Roger received the estate of Hall in Carlton (the parish immediately south of Skipton). William Dawtry was probably a son of Thomas de Altaripa (i.e., Dawtry) of Carlton. The manor of Carlton and estate of Hall in Carlton first came into the Dawtry family by 1235-6, by which time Sir Godfrey/Geoffrey de Altaripa married Matilda de Carlton, coheiress of Carlton. For a summary of Rebecca Farrand's ancestry, see my GEDCOM at <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?d...;.
The key to establishing Rebecca Farrand as the wife of our John Throckmorton is the will of Rebecca's sister Elizabeth Farrand, spinster, of Halstead, Essex Co., England (Halstead is about 11 miles WNW of Colchester). In her 4 Jan. 1660/1 will she bequeathed "unto my sister Rebecca Throckmorton five pounds."
Another sister of Rebecca was Anne Farrand. She married Edward Covell. Reed & Mahler write that he may have been the Edward Covelor or Covill whose will was dated 1 Aug. 1679 and proved 9 Feb. 1679/80. It is in this will that Edward Covilll of Bradwell, Essex, Gent(leman) bequeaths "six pounds to my kinsman John Throckmorton in MidleTowne in New England" (Bradwell is about 10 miles south of Colchester). Thus in this case, our John Throckmorton received the bequest from the husband of Rebecca's sister.
Reed and Mahler concur with Robert C. Anderson's conclusion in his "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633" (1995), 3:1818, that it was George (not our John) Throckmorton who arrived Nantasket 5 Feb. 1630/1 aboard the "Lyon." On 18 May 1631 Mr. George Throckmorton was admitted as a freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony (NEH&GR, [1849], 3:90). He then disappears.
On the other hand, Charles E. Banks, "Topographical Dictionary of 2,885 Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650" (1937), 54, has both George and John Throckmorton from Essex Co. aboard the "Lyon." In his "The Planters of the Commonwealth" (1930), 92-93, Banks lists John, Mrs. Rebecca, John & Patience Throckmorton all aboard the "Lyon" when it arrived 5 Feb. 1631. But Patience Throckmorton was born in 1640 in Providence, Rhode Island, and John was born in 1642 (1645?). Thus Patience and John were certainly not aboard the "Lyon," which leads us to discount Banks' reports in this respect.
John Throckmorton did settle at Throckmorton's Cove on Forest River in what is now Marblehead but in the 1630s was part of Salem South Fields, where he had a piggery (Perley, Sidney, "History of Salem,MA, 1627-1637" [1924], 31 & 268). Apparently no dated record of John Throckmorton's stay in Salem exists. He removed to Rhode Island probably in the summer of 1636. John Throckmorton did not appear in the Massachusetts Bay Colony list of freemen, 1630-1639.
On 28 Mar. 1621 a John Throckmorton apprenticed himself to Robert Debney of Norwich, Norfolk Co, England, for 7 1/2 years from Christmas 1620 to learn the art and mystery of a scrivner (i.e., a notary public). Robert Debney was a brother-in-law of John's stepmother, Hester.
Then on 3 Nov. 1631 a John Throckmorton, gent, lodged a complaint regarding a messuage in Colchester, Essex, which he had received by deed from a George & Elizabeth Throckmorton (Moriarty, G. Andrews, "The Ancestry of John Throckmorton of Providence" [NEH&GR, 1944], 98:123). Was this our John Throckmorton and was George Throckmorton his brother?
So when (and where) were John Tthrockmorton and Rebecca Farrand married and when did they emigrate?
According to the authors, our immigrant John Throckmorton married Rebecca Farrand by 1635. She was a daughter of Richard & Rebecca (Harrison) Farrand. Richard died in 1614, a resident of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex Co., England. The Farrand line is traced back to Roger Farrand born ca. 1450, married Isabel Dawtrie, a daughter and sole heir of William Dawtry of Carlton. Roger was the hereditary porter of Skipton Castle, Yorkshire West Riding. His ancestors had by charter been "custodian jaunuae castelli de Skipton" since before 1260. Upon his marriage Roger received the estate of Hall in Carlton (the parish immediately south of Skipton). William Dawtry was probably a son of Thomas de Altaripa (i.e., Dawtry) of Carlton. The manor of Carlton and estate of Hall in Carlton first came into the Dawtry family by 1235-6, by which time Sir Godfrey/Geoffrey de Altaripa married Matilda de Carlton, coheiress of Carlton. For a summary of Rebecca Farrand's ancestry, see my GEDCOM at <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?d...;.
The key to establishing Rebecca Farrand as the wife of our John Throckmorton is the will of Rebecca's sister Elizabeth Farrand, spinster, of Halstead, Essex Co., England (Halstead is about 11 miles WNW of Colchester). In her 4 Jan. 1660/1 will she bequeathed "unto my sister Rebecca Throckmorton five pounds."
Another sister of Rebecca was Anne Farrand. She married Edward Covell. Reed & Mahler write that he may have been the Edward Covelor or Covill whose will was dated 1 Aug. 1679 and proved 9 Feb. 1679/80. It is in this will that Edward Covilll of Bradwell, Essex, Gent(leman) bequeaths "six pounds to my kinsman John Throckmorton in MidleTowne in New England" (Bradwell is about 10 miles south of Colchester). Thus in this case, our John Throckmorton received the bequest from the husband of Rebecca's sister.
Reed and Mahler concur with Robert C. Anderson's conclusion in his "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633" (1995), 3:1818, that it was George (not our John) Throckmorton who arrived Nantasket 5 Feb. 1630/1 aboard the "Lyon." On 18 May 1631 Mr. George Throckmorton was admitted as a freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony (NEH&GR, [1849], 3:90). He then disappears.
On the other hand, Charles E. Banks, "Topographical Dictionary of 2,885 Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650" (1937), 54, has both George and John Throckmorton from Essex Co. aboard the "Lyon." In his "The Planters of the Commonwealth" (1930), 92-93, Banks lists John, Mrs. Rebecca, John & Patience Throckmorton all aboard the "Lyon" when it arrived 5 Feb. 1631. But Patience Throckmorton was born in 1640 in Providence, Rhode Island, and John was born in 1642 (1645?). Thus Patience and John were certainly not aboard the "Lyon," which leads us to discount Banks' reports in this respect.
John Throckmorton did settle at Throckmorton's Cove on Forest River in what is now Marblehead but in the 1630s was part of Salem South Fields, where he had a piggery (Perley, Sidney, "History of Salem,MA, 1627-1637" [1924], 31 & 268). Apparently no dated record of John Throckmorton's stay in Salem exists. He removed to Rhode Island probably in the summer of 1636. John Throckmorton did not appear in the Massachusetts Bay Colony list of freemen, 1630-1639.
On 28 Mar. 1621 a John Throckmorton apprenticed himself to Robert Debney of Norwich, Norfolk Co, England, for 7 1/2 years from Christmas 1620 to learn the art and mystery of a scrivner (i.e., a notary public). Robert Debney was a brother-in-law of John's stepmother, Hester.
Then on 3 Nov. 1631 a John Throckmorton, gent, lodged a complaint regarding a messuage in Colchester, Essex, which he had received by deed from a George & Elizabeth Throckmorton (Moriarty, G. Andrews, "The Ancestry of John Throckmorton of Providence" [NEH&GR, 1944], 98:123). Was this our John Throckmorton and was George Throckmorton his brother?
So when (and where) were John Tthrockmorton and Rebecca Farrand married and when did they emigrate?