Elizabeth Blanchard

Biography

https://blanchardfamilyhistory.org/content.php?id=2

Thomas’s first wife was Elizabeth. Her surname is unknown. They were married in 1617 in England. Elizabeth Blanchard’s name appeared in parish records for Goodworth Clatford, Hampshire, England. Goodworth Clatford is located about two miles south of Andover in Hampshire.

According to one Blanchard researcher, Thomas and Elizabeth had eight known children, and the baptisms of seven of those eight children (the names listed below) were found in the same parish records at Goodworth Clatford:

1. George, born ca. 1622
2. Thomas, born ca. October 1623
3. Mary, born ca. January 1625/26
4. Stephen, born ca. June 1628
5. Samuel, born August 6, 1629
6. Nathaniel, born ca. July 1632
7. David, born ca. February1633/34.

It is unclear who the eighth child was, if there in fact was one. (The dates of birth of these children vary quite a bit in the different genealogical accounts.)

The burial of Thomas’s wife, Elizabeth, on July 23, 1636, was entered in the Goodworth Clatford parish records, so it can probably be safely assumed that she died shortly before that date.

Within a year, on May 15, 1637, Thomas married Agnes Bent Barnes at St. Edmonds, Salisbury, Wilts (Wiltshire), England. (Wiltshire is the next county to the west of Hampshire, and Salisbury is about 20 miles southwest of Andover.)

References

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• Corey, Deloraine Pendre, The History of Malden, Massachusetts, 1633-1785, Malden, MA, 1899.
• Maxfield, Chuck, Some of the Descendants of Thomas Blanchard of Charlestown, Massachusetts, (Chuck Maxfield’s Genealogy Page at: http://maxfield5.tripod.com/blanchard1.html), “Electronic.”
• “Passengers and Vessels that Have Arrived in America,” New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Vol. 32, October 1878.
• Shepard, Gerald Faulkner, compiler, Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., Shepard Families of New England, Vol. 1, (New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven, CT, 1971).
• Wyman, Thomas Bellows, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629-1818, (New England History Press, Somersworth, NH, 1982, originally published in 1892).