Simon Stacy

1593 - Abt 1644  (~ 50 years)

• Name	Simon Stacy  [1, 2]
  Birth	of Bocking, Braintree, Essex, England   [3]
  Alternate birth	Bef 18 Feb 1593	Epping, Essex, England   [4]
  Baptism	18 Feb 1593	Epping, Essex, England   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1644	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts   [3, 5]
  Person ID	I20506	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of BJS, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Thomas Stace,   b. Abt 1552, Epping, Essex, England d. 1624 (Age ~ 72 years)
  Family ID	F12680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Clarke,   b. Abt 1592   d. 9 Oct 1669, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 77 years)
  Marriage	22 Nov 1620	North Weald Basset, Essex, England   [4]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Stacy   d. 23 Jul 1690, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts + 2. Elizabeth Stacy,   b. 1624, Bocking, Braintree, Essex, England d. 2 Apr 1655, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 31 years)
  Family ID	F12676	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Nov 2021

  
  

• 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”]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1559] Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, With a Genealogy of the Ancestors of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Tyler, prepared by Cornelius B. Tyler. 1912. [S844] William Wyman Fiske, "The Whipple Family of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire: Proposed Ancestral Origin of MatthewA Whipple of Bocking, Essex, and a Whipple Ancestral Line for Arthur1 Gary of Roxbury, Massachusetts." The Genealogist 20:191, Fall 2006. [S1863] Robert Strong, "Two Seventeenth-Century Conversion Narratives from Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony." New England Quarterly 82:136, Mar 2009. [S1864] William Wyman Fiske, "Clarke and Stacy Origins of Three Immigrants to Ipswich, Massachusetts: Simon and Elizabeth (Clarke) Stacy and Her Sister, Susanna (Clarke) Whipple." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 160:17, January 2006. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.