Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Thomas Keane
Abt 1593 - 1653 (~ 59 years)-
Name Thomas Keane Birth Abt 1593 [1] Gender Male Death Between 27 Nov 1652 and 20 Jan 1653 Northumberland County, Virginia 
[1] Person ID I35123 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JDM Last Modified 15 May 2021
Family Mary d. Aft 2 Jan 1662 Children + 1. Matthew Keene, b. 1659, Northumberland County, Virginia d. Between 1730 and 1731, Stafford County, Virginia (Age 71 years)Family ID F20674 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 May 2021
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Notes - An illiterate cooper, he was almost certainly not, as widely claimed, a son of Thomas Keene and Elizabeth Gosnold of Thrandeston, Suffolk, the latter a daughter of Robert Gosnold whose 1615 will bequeaths to "my daughter, the wife of Thomas Keene" and also to "Thomas Keene my grandchild". The gentry Gosnold family was not in the business of marrying its valuable daughters to coopers.
He may have been the Thomas Keyne (many spelling variants) who was an early settler of Kent Island and was involved in the fifteen-year conflict between Virginia and Maryland over the island's ownership.
- An illiterate cooper, he was almost certainly not, as widely claimed, a son of Thomas Keene and Elizabeth Gosnold of Thrandeston, Suffolk, the latter a daughter of Robert Gosnold whose 1615 will bequeaths to "my daughter, the wife of Thomas Keene" and also to "Thomas Keene my grandchild". The gentry Gosnold family was not in the business of marrying its valuable daughters to coopers.
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Sources - [S5776] Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants by Harry Dwight Cavanagh. Volume 2. 2014.
- [S5776] Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants by Harry Dwight Cavanagh. Volume 2. 2014.