Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Thomas Axtell
Bef 1619 - 1646 (> 27 years)-
Name Thomas Axtell Birth Bef 26 Jan 1619 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England 
[1] Baptism 26 Jan 1619 Berkhamsted St. Peter, Hertfordshire, England [1] Gender Male Death 8 Mar 1646 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts [1, 2] 
Siblings1 sibling Person ID I4491 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 3 Oct 2015
Father William Axtell, b. Abt 1590 d. Bef 23 May 1638 (Age ~ 48 years) Mother Thomasine, b. Abt 1594 d. Aft May 1638 (Age ~ 44 years) Marriage Bef 1614 Berkhamsted St. Peter, Hertfordshire, England [1] Family ID F1291 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary, b. Abt 1616, England d. Aft 1672, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 57 years) Marriage Bef 1639 England [1] Children + 1. Mary Axtell, b. Bef 25 Sep 1639, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England d. 14 Apr 1704, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 64 years)Family ID F690 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 26 Sep 2015
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Notes - "For all practical purposes, Thomas Axtell received only a pittance in the 1638 will of his father. This suggests that, at the tender age of just 20, Thomas had already received his portion, or that he had been apprenticed out in such a way that his estate was already established, or that father and son had come to some insurmountable difference of opinion. It might also be that Thomas's uncle Henry Axtell had bequeathed a good legacy to Thomas and father William found it unnecessary to add to it. Whatever the cause, Thomas's English prospects were sufficiently bleak by 1641 that he considered taking his small family across the ocean to New England." [Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, volume III, citation details below.]
Emigrated sometime between 1641 and when he took the Sudbury oath of allegience, 9 Jul 1645.
- "For all practical purposes, Thomas Axtell received only a pittance in the 1638 will of his father. This suggests that, at the tender age of just 20, Thomas had already received his portion, or that he had been apprenticed out in such a way that his estate was already established, or that father and son had come to some insurmountable difference of opinion. It might also be that Thomas's uncle Henry Axtell had bequeathed a good legacy to Thomas and father William found it unnecessary to add to it. Whatever the cause, Thomas's English prospects were sufficiently bleak by 1641 that he considered taking his small family across the ocean to New England." [Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, volume III, citation details below.]
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Sources - [S594] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part III: The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett 1832-1892 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.
- [S228] Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. Boston: New-England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903.
- [S594] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part III: The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett 1832-1892 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.