Simon Stacy

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 18 Feb 1593, Epping, Essex, England

Notes:

“Simon was a ‘relatively wealthy’ clothier who, along with his wife Elizabeth Clark (or Clerke) Stacy, was a member of the thriving East Anglian Puritan community. With the ascendancy of Archbishop William Laud, however, Puritans experienced repression. At about the same time (1629-34), a severe economic depression struck the area's cloth industry. Many Puritans, not only the poorest and most religious, were inspired to emigrate. In the Stacys' Bocking, ‘the depression was making the town “very hazardous for men of better rank to live” as the poor were becoming “very unruly.”’ And so, in and about 1636, the Stacys moved all or part of their family to Massachusetts in a migration that would come to encompass nineteen relatives.” [Robert Strong, “Two Seventeenth-Century Conversion Narratives”]

Simon married Elizabeth Clarke on 22 Nov 1620 in North Weald Basset, Essex, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Stephen Clarke and Elizabeth) was born about 1592; died on 9 Oct 1669 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas Stacy died on 23 Jul 1690 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
2. Elizabeth Stacy was born in 1624 in Bocking, Braintree, Essex, England; died on 2 Apr 1655 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1550

Notes:

From William Wyman Fiske, "Clarke and Stacy Origins of Three Immigrants to Ipswich, Massachusetts" (citation details below):

Although no marriage for Simon's parents has been found, it is probable that Thomas Stacy married Sarah Wood, daughter of Henry and Joan (___) Wood, presumably the Sara Wood, parents unnamed, baptized at Epping 29 January 1562/3. As their first recorded child, Thomas, was baptized there 27 March 1586, Thomas Stacy and Sarah Wood were married by 1585.

Thomas Wood, husbandman of Roydon, Essex, in his will dated 24 March 1599/1600, named "brethren [in law]" John Archer and Thomas Stace of Epping; Elizabeth Archer, "my brother John Archer's daughter"; and "Henry Wood and John son of my brother Henry deceased." William Stace was a witness. In his will dated 12 February 1594/5, Henry Wood of Tolleshunt Major, yeoman, mentioned "Thomas Wood and Thomas Stace my brothers" and named, among others, mother Joan Wood, late deceased, and brother Christopher Wood.

The will of Sarah's father, "Henrie Woode of Eppinge, yeoman," made 27 September 1574, proved 20 February 1576/7, named wife Jone, sons Henry, John and Thomas, daughters Lucy (under 20 and unmarried), Sara (under 20 and unmarried), Margerie, and Margaret; wife Jone to be executor with sons Henry and John, and son-in-law John Archer to act as overseer. Joan Wood, widow of Epping, in her will dated 25 January 1591, proved May 1592, left a bequest for "the repair of the highway leadin[g] from Eppingbury to Epping Church" and mentioned daughter Margery, the children of daughter Margaret, the children of daughter Sara, the children of daughter Luce, Jane wife of son Thomas, members of the Wignall family, John Googe, Grace Luther, Susan Ingold, Agnes Roper, William Wignall and Agnes Wood his sister. She left to son Henry land in Hatfield Broadoak, and appointed son-in-law Christopher Wood [probably her stepson] executor. Mr. Hidron and John Archer were to be overseers.

John married Isabell about 1545. Isabell died after 12 Sep 1554. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Joan about 1516. Joan died after 21 Oct 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]