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| Notes Notes for Joan WAY | ||||||||||
| Torrey has marriage; not Grt Migration Begins; Search for Passengers Mary and John 4:150 Dorset parish records may show parents of Joan Way, the first wife “Joane Way, bpt 22 Jan 1582, Powerstock with West Milton, day of Stephen Way.” | ||||||||||
| Notes Notes for Thomas (Spouse 1) | ||||||||||
| Parentage not yet proved, first recorded at Bridport, co Dorset, Engalnd where he married widow Elizabeth (Charde) Cooke. Continued at Bridport until 1610 or later and had two daughters baptized; by 1623 they were fifteen miles east in Dorchester, co Dorset where son and two daughters were baptized in Holy Trinity Church, two died there in infancy, latest on on March 28, 1629. [Ferris: Dawes-Gates 1_294f] Came in 1630, first residence Dorchester, 1637 to Windsor, 1672 to Northhampton MA. Search for Passengers Mary & John vol 4 gives entries from parish records as possible clues for his ancestry: John Ford m Joan Beck 3 Feb 1583, Piddlehinton, Dorset. (12 m east of Powerstoch) Magalene Ford m William Ford, 8 Jan 1580 Powerstock with West Milton, Dorset Nycholas Ford m Jelyan Long, 14 Oct 1588, Symondsbury, Dorset William Forde m Joan Dolinge 8 Nov 1589, Powerstock with West Milton Powerstock with West Milton is where Thomas married first. Search for Passengers 4:149 also cites TAG article 16:41, by Donald Jacobus & C Torrey: Will of a Thomas Forde of Dorchester, Dorset, merchang dated 20 Jan 1610/11, proved May 1611. Maybe uncle of Thomas the emigrant. He was buried at St Peter’s Dorchester where Thomas the emigrant attended Holy Trinity Church. Will lists sister Syssel (Ceily? and others. Names, “Thomas, son of my brother, John Forde” excutor. This John is most probably father of Thomas; probably the one who married Joan Beck 1580, Thomas, emiigrant, names his first daughter by second wife Joan, but his first wife was also Joan. “Some sources claim he was son of William Ford of Forde Green, E sussex and Alice Harllilutt, who were married 1569, but this seems too early and connection is unconfirmed” | ||||||||||
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