Peter Branch

Bef 1597 - Aft 1638  (> 41 years)

• Name	Peter Branch
  Birth	Bef 27 Feb 1597	Rolvenden, Kent, England   [1, 2]
  Baptism	27 Feb 1597	Rolvenden, Kent, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 16 Jun 1638	On board the Castle, crossing the Atlantic   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I28065	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	Simon Branch   d. Aft 20 May 1614, Tenterden, Ashford, Kent, England
  Mother	Alice Stookes   d. Between 9 May 1619 and 25 May 1619
  Marriage	6 Jun 1585	Rolvenden, Kent, England   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F16747	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Gillame   d. Bef 9 Aug 1632
  Marriage	14 Jan 1624	Halden, Kent, England   [2, 4, 5]
  Children	1. John Branch,   b. 1628, Kent, England d. 17 May 1711, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F16746	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Mildred   d. Bef 20 Sep 1637
  Marriage	Abt 1633  [1]
  Family ID	F16748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He was a carpenter. After the death of his second wife he took sail, with his son John, on the Castle to New England, but he died on board. He left a will committing his son to the care of Thomas Wiburne. He was not a grandson of the Protestant martyr William Flower (d. 1555), as fancifully alleged by none other than James Branch Cabell in his 1907 family history Branchiana. Nor was William Flower a grandfather of early Virginia immigrant Christopher Branch, ancestor of Cabell and also of Thomas Jefferson. To the best of our knowledge, no evidence exists to connect these two Branch families.

  
  

• Sources

  [S692] The Scott Genealogy by Mary Lovering Holman. Boston: 1919. [S3947] Powers-Banks Ancestry by William Howard Powers. Ames, Iowa: John Leslie Powers, 1921. [S3929] A History of the Leading Branch Families in America, 1638-1904 by A. E. (Branch) Paulson. Ashtabula, Ohio, 1904. [S3930] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 65:284, 1911. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.