Thomas Whitfield

Abt 1545 - 1629  (~ 84 years)

• Name	Thomas Whitfield
  Birth	Abt 1545	Wadhurst, Sussex, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Mortlake, Surrey, England   [2]
  Death	1 May 1629  [1, 3]
  Burial	24 May 1629	Worth, Sussex, England   [1]
  Person ID	I15624	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert Whitfield,   b. Between 1517 and 1518, Wadhurst, Sussex, England d. Between 6 Dec 1591 and 16 Feb 1598 (Age ~ 74 years)
  Family ID	F9574	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mildred Fortune Manning,   b. Between 1560 and 1561   d. 1 Sep 1627 (Age ~ 67 years)
  Marriage	10 Jan 1585	Church of St. Magnus the Martyr, London, England   [1]
  Children	1. Rev. Henry Whitfield,   b. Abt 1590, Mortlake, Surrey, England d. Bef 17 Sep 1657 (Age ~ 67 years)
  Family ID	F9560	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2018

  
  

• Notes

  In 1567 he was a student of the Inner Temple. B.A., Oxford, 25 Jan 1569. He became a prominent London lawyer. He endowed his birthplace, the parish of Wadhurst, with a bequest to aid the poor there, but this was almost immediately diverted to reduce the taxes in aid of the poor that were levied on the affluent. An angry protest against this state of affairs, by one John Hatley, can be found in the parish register at Worth.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2123] The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin: 1989. [S1617] Abandoning America: Life-Stories from Early New England by Susan Hardman Moore. Woodbridge, Sussex: The Boydell Press, 2013. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990., year only.