Born ca 1590 in Nieheim, Lippe, Germany. [51] Was granted citizenship to Blomberg, Lippe, Germany in 1620. [239] "coniux et liberi".1620 Bürgerrecht; notation: "coniux et liberi" (with wife and children); "kauft 1620 Haus [No. 52, heute Neue Torstraße 18] im Winkelviertel für 200 Rtl."
1612-1642 Secretarius; 1643-1645 Bürgermeister
1648 V(er)Z(eichnis): hat Frau & 2 Kinder im Haus 57 [heute Neue Torstraße 28]; wife died 6 May 1660 (no name given) [56]
Antonius married Unk. Unknown.
They had the following children:
| 524 | i. | Johann (ca1620-1685) | |
| ii. | Unknown (-1682) |
1049 Unk. Unknown.
Unk. died on May 6, 1660 in Blomberg, Lippe, Germany. [136] no name given.1050 Henrich Heringlake. [56]
Henrich died in Sep 1667 in Blomberg, Lippe, Germany. [56] Buried on Sep 29, 1667 in Blomberg, Lippe, Germany. [240], [136] Occupation: Schuhmacher, Bürgermeister. [56]Henrich married Ilsabe Schröder [56].
They had one child:
| 525 | i. | Anne (1624-1716) |
1051 Ilsabe Schröder. [56]
Ilsabe died in Sep 1666 in Blomberg, Lippe, Germany. [56] Buried on Sep 22, 1666 in Blomberg, Lippe, Germany. [240], [136]Burial: NB 2 pg 52
1280 Eustace Gates.
Eustace died in 1626. [211] Buried on Apr 26, 1626 in Coney Weston, Suffolk, England. [211] Occupation: Laborer.Buried at Coney Weston, Suffolk, on 26 April 1626 as Eustace Jayuettes [211]
"Eustace Jaques of Cony Weston ... laborer" made a will dated 15 March 1625/6, proved 5 June 1626, naming "Rose Jaques my wife ... Rose Jaques Ales Jaques Marie Jaques the elder and Marie Jaques the younger my fowre daughter ... William Jaques Thomas Jaques Stephen Jaques and Symond Jaues my fowre sonnes ...my brother in lawe William Wright of greate Ellingam in the countie of Norff yeoman." [211]
Jaques and Jayuettes are variant spellings of Gates found in the original records.
On Mar 4, 1592 Eustace married Rose Wright, in Coney Weston, Suffolk, England. [211]
They had the following children:
| i. | Thomas (1593-1635) | ||
| ii. | Rose (1594-) | ||
| iii. | William (1596-) | ||
| 640 | iv. | Stephen (1597-1662) | |
| v. | Alice (1599-) | ||
| vi. | Mary (1) (1601-) | ||
| vii. | Bridgett (1603-1616) | ||
| viii. | Simon (1606-) | ||
| ix. | Mary (2) (1609-) |
1281 Rose Wright.
Born in Feb 1566 in Coney Weston, Suffolk, England. [211] Rose was baptized in Coney Weston, Suffolk, England on Feb 25, 1566. [211] Rose died in Hingham, Norfolk, England in Jul 1635; she was 69. [211] Buried on Jul 25, 1635 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. [211]1286 Thomas Marrett. [213]
Born abt 1589 in England. Thomas died on Jun 30, 1664; he was 75.from Bouley Genealogy: was a cobbler
Came early to Cambridge (1635) and in 1638 purchased the estate at the N.E. corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn st. He was a prominent citizen. Supposed to have been the first Deacon of Shepards church, organized 1636. Selectman from 1639 to 1647; 75 years old at death. Will dated 15 Oct, 1663. Name also spelled Marryott and Marritt. Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles Henry Pope p.35; Bonds Watertown p.678
Thomas married Susanna Unknown.
They had the following children:
| i. | John (ca1630-) | ||
| ii. | Thomas [213] | ||
| iii. | Abigail [213] | ||
| 643 | iv. | Susanna (-1654) | |
| v. | Hannah [213] (-1668) |
1287 Susanna Unknown.
1288 James Wood. [241]
Born in 1573 in St. Peters, Sudbury, Suffolk, England. James died in St. Peters, Sudbury, Suffolk, England on Aug 1, 1628; he was 55.James married Mrs James Wood [242].
They had one child:
| 644 | i. | John (1610-1678) |
1289 Mrs James Wood. [242]
Born abt 1575 in England. Mrs James died ? .1290 Deacon John Parmenter. [243]
Born in 1588 in Little Yeldham, Essex, England. John died in Roxbury, Middlesex, Ma on May 1, 1671; he was 83. [244]Settled Watertown, 1638, Sudbury, 1639 (freeman May 13, 1640) [244]
On Jul 12, 1609 when John was 21, he married Bridget Daveye [245], in Little Yeldham, Essex, England.
They had the following children:
| 645 | i. | Mary (1610-1690) | |
| ii. | John [152] (1616-1666) |
1291 Bridget Daveye. [245]
Born on Feb 12, 1589 in Bures, St. Mary, Suffolk, England. Bridget died in Sudbury, MA on Apr 6, 1660; she was 71.1292 Edmund Rice. [246]
Born in 1594 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England. At the age of 6, Edmund was baptized in Buckinghamshire, Sudbury, England on Aug 11, 1600. Edmund died in Marlborough, MA on May 3, 1663; he was 69. [145] Buried in May 1663 in Sudbury, MA. [145]From the website of the Edmund Rice Association (http://www.edmund-rice.org/)
Edmund Rice arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1638. Our first record of his presence is in Township Book of the Town of Sudbury in the year 1639. Regrettably, no ship's passenger list has survived and we have no record of Edmund Rice and his family before 1639 so we can not be certain when or where he and his family arrived in the New World.
Knowing the names of Edmund Rice's children at Sudbury, family historians have traced his family back to England using church baptismal records for his children and, eventually, to his marriage to Thomasine Frost on 15 October 1618 at Bury St. Edmunds. However, we have found no record of his baptism or any other record that names his parents. Read more about the search for Edmund Rice's ancestry on another of these pages.
As yeomen farmers Edmund Rice and the other early settlers at Sudbury were well prepared for the tasks of forming and governing a new community. As yeomen they had assumed with both personal and community responsibilities back in England. As Protestant churchmen they had been encouraged to read and write so that they could study and understand their Bible. Although not of the noble class, they had shared many community and church responsibilities in their former communities in England.
Edmund Rice was one of the prominent leaders of his community at both Sudbury and Marlborough. In his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Puritan Village, The formation of a New England Town, Sumner Chilton Powell sums up the high regard that his fellow citizens had for Edmund: "Not only did Rice become the largest individual landholder in Sudbury, but he represented his new town in the Massachusetts legislature for five years and devoted at least eleven of his last fifteen years to serving as selectman and judge of small causes." and "Two generations of Sudbury men selected Edmund Rice repeatedly as one of their leaders, with the full realization that they were ignoring men of far more English government experience who had come with him." If your ancestry goes back to Sudbury, be sure to read Powell's superb account of the development of this New England town in the mid 17th century.
Although much respected by his fellow townsmen, Edmund seems to have had an independent side to his nature. In 1656 Edmund Rice and others petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for a new town which became the City of Marlborough. Edmund moved his immediate family and was elected a Selectman at Marlborough in 1657. Later generations of Rices were founding members of many new communities, first in New England and Nova Scotia, and later across the United States and Canada.
Like many early New England families, Edmund Rice's family was a very large one. Of his twelve children, ten survived to have children of their own. Edmund Rice's descendants through his great great grandchildren number nearly 1,450. This pattern of large families seems to have continued well into the 19th century. The result is that many living people can trace their ancestry to Edmund Rice.
Twice in the 20th century nationally recognized research genealogists have attempted to determine the parents and ancestors of Edmund Rice. Mary Lovering Holman described the negative result of her search for records in the parishes near Stanstead and Sudbury, Suffolk County, England in "English Notes on Edmund Rice Š ", The American Genealogist, Volume 10 (1933/34), pp. 133 - 137. Mrs. Holman is considered by many to be one of the best research genealogists in the 20th century. In 1997 the Edmund Rice (1638) Association commissioned Dr. Joanna Martin, a nationally recognized research genealogist who lives in England only a few miles from Stanstead and Sudbury to search again for records of Edmund Rice's parents. Dr. Martin reported in 1999 that she found no record that identified Edmund's parents or ancestral line.
Several authors of published works and computer data sets have claimed names for Edmund Rice's parents. Regrettably they have not given sources that would assist in definitive genealogical research. For example, the Ancestral File and International Genealogical Index, two popular computer data sets widely distributed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, offer parent candidates that include: Henry Rice and Margaret Baker, Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost, Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, and Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost.
From Mrs. Holman's paper we have an excellent record of one Henry Rice's marriage to Elizabeth Frost in November 1605 at Stanstead. Mrs. Holman also documents the baptism of Edmund's first child on 23 August 1619 at Stanstead. If this is the Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost to which the LDS records refer, the LDS records must be erroneous. Our researchers have not been able to find records that support any Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost, Henry Rice and Margaret Baker, Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, or Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost as parents of Edmund Rice.
A scholarly investigation by Donald Lines Jacobus, considered by many as the dean of modern American genealogy, appeared in The American Genealogist, Volume 11, (1936), pp. 14-21. Jacobus traced many of the false accounts to the book by Dr. Charles Elmer Rice entitled "By the Name of Rice Š ", privately published by Dr. Rice at Alliance, Ohio in 1911.
Edmund Rice deposed in a court document on 3 April 1656 that he was about 62 years old. Sudbury, England includes three parishes, two of which do not have complete records for the years near 1594, which is Edmund's most likely birth year. Thus, if he were born in Sudbury, England his records have been lost and we may never know his origin.
In his address to the 1999 annual meeting of the Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Gary Boyd Roberts, Senior Researcher, New England Historic Genealogy Society, reviewed all of the genealogical sleuthing on Edmund's parentage. Mr. Roberts is well known for his research on royal lineage. He concluded that there was no evidence whatsoever that supports the published accounts of Edmund Rice's parents and no evidence that Edmund Rice was from a royal lineage.
The Edmund Rice (1638) Association is very interested in proving the ancestry of Edmund Rice. The association encourages anyone who can identify a primary source that names Edmund and his parents to identify that source. Records of a baptism, estate probate, or land transaction naming Edmund and his parents are the most likely records to contain that proof. Until someone can cite such a record, the association must state emphatically that Edmund Rice's parents and ancestry are not known and that Edmund Rice's descendants can not claim royal ancestry. [183]
On Oct 15, 1618 when Edmund was 24, he married Thomasine Frost [247], [183], in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
They had the following children:
| i. | Henry (ca1618-1711) | ||
| ii. | Mary (1619-<1638) | ||
| 646 | iii. | Edward (1622-1712) | |
| iv. | Thomas (1626-1681) | ||
| v. | Lydia (3) [152] (1628-1675) | ||
| vi. | Matthew [152] (1629-1717) | ||
| vii. | Daniel (2) [152] (1632-1632) | ||
| viii. | Samuel [152] (1634-1685) | ||
| ix. | Joseph [152] (1638-1711) | ||
| x. | Benjamin (2) [152] (1640-1713) |
1293 Thomasine Frost. [247], [183]
Born on Aug 10, 1600 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England. Thomasine was baptized in Stanstead, Suffolk, England on Aug 11, 1600. [183] St. James Church. Thomasine died in Sudbury, MA on Jun 13, 1654; she was 53. [183]Name also spelled Tamazine [145]
1294 John Bent. [248]
Born on Nov 25, 1596 in Wayhill, Southhamps, England. John died in Sudbury, MA on Sep 27, 1672; he was 75.John married Martha Blanchard [249], in Penton Grafton, Weyhill, Hampshire, England.
They had the following children:
| i. | Robert [250] (1624-1648) | ||
| ii. | William [251] (1626-?) | ||
| iii. | Peter [252] (1629-1678) | ||
| 647 | iv. | Agnes (1631-1713) | |
| v. | John (2) [253] (1635-1715) | ||
| vi. | Martha [254] (1638-1680) | ||
| vii. | Joseph [255] (1641-1675) |
Ancestry File gives Oct. 3, 1644 as marriage date; probably wrong, all children born from 1624-1641
1295 Martha Blanchard. [249]
Born BET 1598 AND 1600 in Penton Grafton, Weyhill, Hampshire, England. Martha died in Sudbury, MA on May 15, 1679; she was 81.1296 John Howe.
Born in Warwickshire, England. [193]Child:
| 648 | i. | John (-~1687) |
1300 Percival (2) Levett. [152]
Born in 1580 in Beverly, Yorkshire, England. Percival (2) died in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts on 16 DEC 1646/1647; he was 66.Ancestral File number: 84SJ-MH
also spelled Leavit
In 1607 when Percival (2) was 27, he married Margaret Linkley [152], in Prob, Beverly, Y, England.
They had the following children:
| 650 | i. | John (~1608-1691) | |
| ii. | John "Deacon" [152] (1608-1691) | ||
| iii. | Joseph [152] (1609-?) | ||
| iv. | Josiah [152] (~1610-?) | ||
| v. | Sarah [152] (1611-1691) | ||
| vi. | Elizabeth [152] (1612-?) | ||
| vii. | Thomas [152] (~1612-~1635) | ||
| viii. | Benjamin [152] (1614-?) | ||
| ix. | William [152] (~1614-?) | ||
| x. | Mary (2) [152] (1615-1646) | ||
| xi. | Samuel [152] (1615-?) | ||
| xii. | Abigail [152] (1616-?) | ||
| xiii. | Mary (3) [152] (1617-?) | ||
| xiv. | Martha [152] (1620-?) |
1301 Margaret Linkley. [152]
Born in 1589 in Beverly, Yorkshire, England, England. Margaret died ? .Ancestral File number: 8MGC-5D
1302 Edward (2) Gilman. [152]
Born abt 1587 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Edward (2) died in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire on Jun 22, 1681; he was 94.Ancestral File number: 3G3T-BJ
Arrived in 1638 on the Diligent [256]
On Jun 3, 1614 when Edward (2) was 27, he married Mary (1) Clark [152], in Hingham, Norfolk, England, Uk. [233]
They had the following children:
| i. | Mary [152] (1615-1681) | ||
| ii. | Edward (3) [152] (1617-bur. 1655) | ||
| iii. | Sarah (2) [152] (Died as Child) (1617-<1622) | ||
| iv. | Lydia Clark [152] (~1619-1689) | ||
| v. | Joshua [152] (Died as Infant) (1619-1619) | ||
| 651 | vi. | Sarah (1622-1700) | |
| vii. | John [152] (1624-1708) | ||
| viii. | Lawrence [152] (1626-?) | ||
| ix. | Jeremy [152] (Died as Child) (1628-1635) | ||
| x. | Moses [152] (1630-?) | ||
| xi. | Daniel [152] (Died as Child) (1633-1634) | ||
| xii. | Elizabeth [152] (Died as Child) (1634-1635) |
1303 Mary (1) Clark. [152]
Born abt 1594 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Mary (1) died in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts on Jun 22, 1681; she was 87.Ancestral File number: 3G3T-CP