Sir Thomas Parsons, of Great Milton

Notes

From Meet the Planters – Parsons The following information is taken from Dr. Roy’s Book:

The first Thomas Parsons of which we know was Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England. He married Catharine Sydenham and had Thomas, Hugh and Richard.
The latter Thomas married Judith Garbrand of Oxford and their only child was Thomas, who was knighted by Charles I in 1634. He was also of Great Milton but married Catharine Radcliff of London.
The children of Sir Thomas and Catharine were Robert, Thomas, Richard, Anthony, and six daughters.

Thomas, aged 30, son of Sir Thomas Parsons, sailed on January 2, 1634/5 in the Merchantman Bonaventura, James Ricrofte, Master, bound from London for New England. In 1639, he is found as a proprietor at Boston. On June 28, 1641, he was at Windsor, Connecticut Colony, where he married Lydia Brown and where he was to make his permanent home. She bore him eleven children between May 21, 1642, and May 1, 1661.

From Genealogy: A Weekly Journal of American Ancestry, Volumes 3-5 (Google eBook) William M. Clemens, Publisher, 1913 - Genealogy.  September 1914.  Page 80 - Parsons.

Thomas Parsons, of Gt. Milton, Devonshire, married Catherine Sydenham, by whom he had sons, Thomas 2nd, Hugh and Richard.
Hugh (sic: Richard) m. a Pierpont, and had a son John of London. "Some of this family were among the early emigrants to America."

Thomas 2nd, was the father of Sir Thomas Parsons Knt. who married 1614, Lady Catherine Ratcliffe of ancient lineage. (See New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Register.)

Citations

1. 'Parishes: Great Milton', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 7: Dorchester and Thame hundreds (1962), pp. 117-146. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63773&strquery=... Date accessed: 21 April 2014. " Another family, the Parsons, was typical of the class of small men who were successful in rising in the social scale in the 16th century. Thomas Parsons rented land worth 12s. 4d. a year in 1499; his descendant Thomas Parsons paid on goods worth £25 in 1577, one of the highest assessments in the parish, and by 1665 Robert Parsons was living in the largest house there, except for the Dormers' house at Ascot. (fn. 403). "

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