Richard Palgrave of Great Yarmouth

Disambiguation

Not the son of Rev. Edward Palgrave

Please don't confuse Richard Palgrave of Great Yarmouth with Dr. Richard Palgrave of Barnham Broom and Charlestown. Richard Palgrave of Great Yarmouth (1697-1630) married Joane (Harris) [Palgrave] Young (1601-1637) and had one daughter Ann who married Nicholas Woodbury. His widow and daughter moved to Salem (See Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, (1931-1943), Vol 2 p 621-623, Palgrave. Dr. Richard Palgrave of Barnham Broom and Charlestown (1593-1651) married Ann (Unknown) (1594-1668) and moved to Charlestown, MA and had 10 children. See Robert C Anderson, The Winthrop Fleet (Boston, MA: NEHGS 2012) p 510-515 which includes and updated list of children as well as Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry (Salt Lake City: 2016) Vol. I p 511-513 and ary Boyd Roberts. "Ancestors of American Presidents" (Boston, MA NEHGS Nov 2015) Richard: 265,286,367,383,509; Anna 367,509 for the most recent information.

Biography

Richard Palgrave of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England is said to be a member of the Pulham Market branch of the family.[1][2] Mary Walton Ferris believes he was the Richard Palgrave baptized on 29 JAN 1597 in Pulham, Norfolk, England to John and Amy Palgrave of Pulham and grandson to Thomas and Christian Sayer of Pulham, Norfolk, England.[3] He married Joan Harris on 24 June 1625[1][2] or 24 January 1625/6.[3] Joan was born about 1603 (aged 34 in 1637).[3] Richard and Joan had a daughter, Anne, baptized at Great Yarmouth on 29 Oct. 1626, probably an only child.[3][2] He received a bequest from his father in 1618 and he finished a his apprenticeship with Richard Sayre and became an freeman in 1624. Richard Sayre was clerk and alderman and probably a relative of Richard Palgrave's grandmother.[3] Richard Palgrave died at Great Yarmouth, England, 30 March 1630.[3]

Richard's widow remarried to the Rev. John Young/Yonge of Southwold a minister at St Margrett's, Suffolk, England by 1637 as his second wife. He had sons John and Thomas by his first wife Joan Herrington who he married 24 Jun 1622. She died about 1630.[3][2] On 11 May 1637, the Yonge family enrolled for passage to New England in the Mary Anne of Yarmouth.[3] Besides the three children mentioned above, Joseph Rachell and Marey also traveled with them. They may have been the children of Joan and John Young.[3] John Young was given a land grant in Salem on 4 Aug 1637. After Joan's death John Young married third to Mary (Warren) Gardiner daughter of Thomas Warran about 1639. He then removed to Southhold, Long Island.

Daughter Anne Palgrave was named heir to the estate of John Thorn of Beverley in 1646. She married about 1651 to Nicholas Woodbury[2]. She also inherited a vast amount of land in Great Yarmouth, England which she left to her Woodbury children: Joseph, Isaac, Joanna Plummer and Abigail Ober in her will dated Oct 1699 proved 1701 or 1702.[3][2][4]

Sources

• 1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 G. Andrews Moriarty, "Dr. Richard Palgrave and his Family," in The American Genealogist, 18(1941):206-209.
• 2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 G. Andrew Moriarty, "The Parentage and Ancestry of Dr Richard Palgrave of Charlestown, Mass in NEHGR (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1948) 102:87
• 3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, 2 vols. (1931-1943), 2:621-623, Palgrave; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
• 4. ↑ Sidney Perley, The history of Salem, Massachusetts (Salem, Mass., S. Perley, 1924-28) Vol 1 p 402 link