Thomas Eames - Disputed origins

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Jefffey Gorton Is examining geni’s pedigree for Capt. Anthony Eames whe emigrated to the Plymouth Colony.

We can in fact trace him as son of Thomas Eames & Millicent Eames but that’s it.

Why? Explained here:

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~fordingtondorset/genealogy/Files/Fo... An Account of the life of Captain Anthony Eames (1595 – 1686)
Churchwarden of St Georges Church & Constable of Fordington Manor

©Compiled by Michael Russell OPC for Fordington December 2009
(Revised March 2010 - updated May 2011 with additional information on Jonathan Eames (1628-1702)

update Aug 2015 to take account of Anthony, Margery and their son Mark being beneficiaries under the Will of Rogere Kete (d.1620)

An OPC is an online parish clerk, so he has access to the parish records.

He wrote:

Grandparents:

Few records survive for Fordington from this period and unfortunately the parish registers were all destroyed in antiquity. We do however have some badly damaged bishops transcripts (2) from which it is clear that the family was well established in the parish in the 16th century. The paucity of original records at this date make it impossible to be sure but the snippets that survive do offer some grounds for speculation.

Anthony's grandparents are said to be John Eames and his wife Joan but the only evidence I have so far been able to locate to support this is the burial of a ‘Jone Emes’ in Fordington on 7th June 1588 when she was described as ‘a widow’ and an ‘olde woman’.

John & Joan are given as the parents of Thomas Eames who was almost certainly born in Fordington around the year 1549 well before our records commence.

There were undoubtedly other members of the family in Fordington, most notably a Richard Eames who had a son Thomas (whom I will call junior) baptised there in 1605. Richard was probably a younger brother to Thomas and Richard's son Thomas (junior) also raised a family in Fordington of which records survive for three children. Significantly they were named Joane Eames, possibly named after Richards mother (born in 1635) Grace (born in 1637), and a son John Eames possibly named after Richards father who was baptised in Fordington on 13th January 1638/9 . Unfortunately he died at the age of 36 as far as we know unmarried and was buried in Fordington on 15 Sep 1675.

Nothing else is known about descendants from this side of the family.

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So additionally, I am detaching Joan Pierce as wife of Thomas Eames

There is no record associating that Pierce family with that Eames family.

If the person who handles the records couldn’t find it ….