Family Notes
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Family Note: William Baker
Thompson:
Ref: "Thompson Lineage with Mention of Allied Families," by William Baker
Thompson, The Telegraph Printing Company, Harrisburg, PA 1911
First wife - Name unknown - children:
1] John [the mariner], b 1632 = Ann Vicars
2] Anthony, b Dec 1634, d 29 Dec 1654 [According to Savage, d.s.p. willing
his property to brother & sister, John & Bridget, and 3 'half-sisters,
children of goodwife Camp, who had been 2nd wife of his father.' Will d. 26
Dec 1654] This begs the question - who was the 3rd half-sister? as we only
have Hannah & Lydia. No mention is made in this reference to the Will of a
half-brother, Ebenezer.
3] Bridget, b 1636 = Rev. John Bowers
Second wife - Catherine [Unknown] - children:
4] Hannah, bapt. 8 June 1645 = John Stanton [Also referred to as 'Anna']
5] Lydia, bapt. 24 July 1647 = Isaac Crittendon [Date corrected to 25 July
1647 by Savage in his "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New
England, etc", V 3, p. 283]. [She m. 2ndly John Meigs]
6] Ebenezer, bapt. 15 Oct 1648 = Deborah Dudley
This would mean Ebenezer was a posthumous child, [I think] baptized 8 months after his father died.
After his death, Catherine m. 14 July 1652 Nicholas Camp of Milford.
For the most part, the rest of this book deals with the descendants of #2 above, John Thompson = Anne Vicars through their son Samuel, b 12 May 1669, = Rebecca Bishop.
I don't know this this information will be of any help to you, but it is what I found in my files. Beverly Stercula had worked up a list of some of Anthony's descendants, as well as those of his brothers, John and William, but it is incomplete, and makes no mention of their parents. Her references - for the most part - are "Families of Ancient New Haven" no author/compiler named.
In "An Account of Some of the Ancestors of Harry Thompson and Myra Hull", compiled by Clarence Willis Eastman, Amherst, Mass 1916, he mentions Anthony's parents. He states they are buried in the parish church at Lenham, Kent County, England, the following inscription covering their burial place:
"Here underlye the bodies of Henry Thompson and Dorothy, his wife, of Royton Chapel, in this Parish. He was the son and co-heir of Thomas Thompson [of Sandwich, Merchant], and she the eldest daughter of Robert Honeywood of Pett, in Charing."
He then goes on to list the children of Henry and Dorothy, as follows:
1] Robert, bapt. 26 March 1695 [Also buried there]
2] Mary, bapt. 14 Oct 1699
3] Judith, bapt. 2 Aug 1602
4] John, bapt. 18 Nov 1604
5] Elizabeth, b 20 Sept 1607
6] Anthony, b 30 Aug 1612.
You will notice, there is NO William mentioned here as their child, and yet Anthony, in his nuncupative Will, mentions brothers John and William. It is possible that William could have been born between 1607-1612 and the record overlooked. Henry Thompson died in Lenham, England 20 Oct 1648. No death date given for Dorothy.