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Ensign Thomas French

Male Bef 1608 - 1680  (> 71 years)


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  • Name Thomas French 
    Prefix Ensign 
    Birth Bef 27 Nov 1608  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Baptism 27 Nov 1608  Assington, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Death 8 Aug 1680  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Person ID I33738  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH
    Last Modified 8 Jun 2021 

    Father Thomas French,   b. Bef 11 Oct 1584   d. Bef 5 Nov 1639, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 55 years) 
    Mother Susan Riddlesdale,   b. Bef 20 Apr 1584   d. Aug 1658, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 74 years) 
    Marriage 5 Sep 1608  Assington, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Family ID F11657  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary   d. 6 May 1681, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Bef 1632  Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 9
    Children 
    +1. John French,   b. Abt 1635, of Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1706 (Age ~ 71 years)
    Family ID F19882  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Jun 2021 

  • Notes 
    • He arrived with his younger sister Alice in the Winthrop fleet in 1630. First at Boston, then Ipswich in 1638. He fought in the Pequot War in 1637.

  • Sources 
    1. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    2. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990.

    3. [S2005] The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes 1759-1820 of Topsfield, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1959.

    4. [S5870] Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands: Three Unrecorded Marriages from Early Massachusetts, Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175:104, 2021.

    5. [S92] John B. Threlfall, "Thomas French of Assington, Suffolk, England, and Ipswich, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 142:250, 1988, and correction at 142:393, 1988.

    6. [S1889] The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., and Their Ancestors and Descendants by John William Linzee. Boston, 1913.

    7. [S1923] John Brooks Threlfall, "John Wyatt of Ipswich, Massachusetts and His Wife Mary (_____) Riddlesdale." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 143:213, July 1989.

    8. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945.

    9. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., year only.