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 | Ancestor of AP
  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.