Frances Tough

1597 - 1673  (78 years)

• Name	Frances Tough  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Between 1595 and 1597	Burrow-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, England   [4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 12 Nov 1673 and 23 Dec 1673	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [5, 6]
  Person ID	I31129	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Ralph Tough,   b. of Burrow-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, England
  Family ID	F18477	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sampson Chester,   b. Abt 1592, Leicestershire, England d. Between 5 Nov 1623 and Feb 1628 (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	26 Nov 1617	Church of St. Anne's Blackfriars, London, England   [2, 5]
  Family ID	F18484	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Thomas Smith
  Marriage	25 Feb 1628	St. Mary Magdalene's, Bermondsey, Surrey, England   [2, 7]
  Family ID	F18487	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family 3	Deacon Edward Stebbing,   b. Bef 24 Feb 1595   d. Between 8 Oct 1663 and 19 Aug 1668, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 68 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1629  [6, 8, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Stebbing,   b. Abt 1630   d. 29 Jun 1657, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 27 years) + 2. Elizabeth Stebbins,   b. Abt 1631   d. Aft 1693 (Age > 63 years)
  Family ID	F18476	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2021

  
  

• Sources

  [S1357] The Visitation of the Counter of Leicester in the Year 1619, Taken by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms ed. John Fetherston. London: Harleian Society, 1870. [S4958] Genealogical Notes of the Families of Chester of Blaby by Edmond Chester-Waters. Leicester: Clarke and Hodgson, 1886. [S2303] George E. McCracken, "John Brown's Body." The American Genealogist 35:19, January 1959. [S2050] John Insley Coddington, "The Stebbing Family of Co. Essex, England, and Rowland, Martin, Edward and Editha Stebbing or Stebbins of New England." The American Genealogist 31:193, October 1955. [S4956] John Insley Coddington, "The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, Wife of Edward Stebbing, of Hartford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 30:193, Oct 1954. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S4956] John Insley Coddington, "The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, Wife of Edward Stebbing, of Hartford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 30:193, Oct 1954., date and town only. [S4956] John Insley Coddington, "The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, Wife of Edward Stebbing, of Hartford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 30:193, Oct 1954., says "probably in 1629". [S2050] John Insley Coddington, "The Stebbing Family of Co. Essex, England, and Rowland, Martin, Edward and Editha Stebbing or Stebbins of New England." The American Genealogist 31:193, October 1955., says "probably in 1629".