Thomas Harwell

Disambiguations

The only Harwell was: "Tho Harrwell age 29 sailed aboard the Falcon on 19 December 1635" The index only had this one Harrwell/Harwell as being an emigrant.

Do not confuse with the Harrell or Hopewell families. Not the progenitor of Thomas Harrell, the Immigrant.

• Not the son of Edmund Harwell, of Besford, KB who did not have a son Thomas.
• Not the same as Foulke Harewell who was not called Thomas and did not come to America.
• Not the same as Thomas "The Elder" Hollowell

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Family

Wife seen as Elizabeth Hartwell. Not Elizabeth Bailey.

Children of Thomas HAREWELL and ELIZABETH HARTWELL are:

• i. JOHN9 HARWELL, b. 1636. More About JOHN HARWELL: Occupation: Goldsmith
• ii. EDMUND HARWELL, MAJOR, b. 1639, Probably Virginia; d. 1698, Probably Virginia; m. ELIZABETH (EDMONDS?) EDWARDS, Bef. 1661, Probably Virginia. More About EDMUND HARWELL and ELIZABETH EDWARDS: Marriage: Bef. 1661, Probably Virginia
• iii. SAMUEL HARWELL, b. 1635.

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Origins

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/harwell/1118/

In a series of articles written in the fall of 1904 for the Giles County (TN) _Pulaski Citizen_ entitled "The History of Pisgah", W. Thomas Carden wrote of the Harwell family:

"Tradition says that in the latter part of the Seventeenth or early part of the Eighteenth Century four brothers named Harwell came to America from the north of England and settled somewhere in Virginia. It is said that they came from Lancastershire, perhaps Lancashire, and from near the village of Blackburn. One of the four died a bachelor."

Disputed Origins

“A Thomas [Foulke] Harewell abandoned the impoverished family home at Besford, near Worcester, and sailed with his brother in 1636 as colonists to Virginia, from where the family eventually spread across the southern states of America.”

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harewell-10

Foulk Harewell is NOT Thomas Harwell the emigrant, because there isn't any documentation that supports Foulk leaving England, he is being disconnected from the spouse and children attached to him. Thomas Harwell the emigrant was NOT Sir Edmond Harewell's son. Foulk Harewell, born 1606 England, he was christened on 22 January 1606, Merton, Surrey, England[1][2]. Edmond's sons from his first marriage were: Edmond and John, both died without children. The sons listed for Edmond Harewell and Elisabeth Griffith were: 3rd son: Foulk, 4th son: Nevell. Daughters: Dorathey, Lutterell, Lucey[3]

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Do not merge with members of the Hopewell family.

Disputed Wives

Not the husband of Elizabeth Bailey.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bailey-1826

The problem with the attached sources, is that none of them even mention Elizabeth Bailey, let alone who her parents were, nor who she was married to. She wasn't married to Foulk Harewell, there isn't any documentation that shows he ever left England. The only emigrant to America that is recorded is a Thomas Harwell, and he is not connected to the Sir Edmond Harewell family. "Tho Harrwell age 29 sailed aboard the Falcon on 19 December 1635" The index only had this one Harrwell/Harwell as being an emigrant.[1]

There wasn't a Thomas Foulk Harwell, those were two separate individuals, in the 1920's several genealogists were paid to construct family trees, these genealogists would attach families to the visitations, which appears to be what happened here. [2]

On-line trees, without sources have that an Elizabeth Edwards Bailey born 1643, was married to Edmund Harwell born 1639, died 1698. That they were the parents of Thomas B Harwell born 1661, died 1719, and that he was married to Anne Batte. Again no documentation has been found to verify any of this.

Not the husband of Alice Mason.

Lt. Francis Mason, Ancient Planter Did not have a daughter Alice Mason. Gender: Female Birth: 1632 Norfolk, Virginia Death: 1708 (75-76) Lower, Norfolk, Virginia, USA and certainly the children associated with her are actually the children of Alce wife of Thomas Hollowell.

See https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/132046/I319/alce-/individual

References

• The Visitation of the county of Worcester made in the year 1569 : with other pedigrees relating to that county from Richard Mundy's collection Page 70: Handford. Archive.Org
• http://www.betty-shirley.com/older_harville_research.htm
• http://www.flemingmultimedia.com/Genealogy/ThomasHarwell.html
• ROOTSWEB {http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=marykl&id...}
• Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5N5-X5M : 11 February 2018, Thomas Harwell in entry for Elizabeth Harwell, 08 Jun 1680); citing SAINT JAMES,BURY SAINT EDMUNDS,SUFFOLK,ENGLAND, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 97,124, 993,230.
• https://www.village4a1000years.com/tudors/harwell-the-family-name/
• http://betty-shirley.com/older_harville_research.htm
• Sir Thomas Harwell, The Second Virginia Charter 1609, died without issue, http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1600-1650/the-second-virginia-c...
• https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/harwell/1436/ mentions sources, goes into the Faulk vs Thomas information.
• ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3KT-T7D : 18 September 2020), Edmund Harewell in entry for Fouke Harewell, 1606.
• ↑ Foulk & Thomas Foulk Harwell "Debate"By genealogy.com user February 15, 2002 at 10:57:59 https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/harwell/1117/ and https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/harwell/1118/
• ↑ The Visitation of the county of Worcester made in the year 1569 : with other pedigrees relating to that county from Richard Mundy's collection Page 70: Handford
• ↑ Edward Coke's Law Commentary: "a man cannot have two given names of baptism; on bills of sale that purchaser shall be named by the name of his baptism and his surname."
• ↑ Hotten, John Camden, Original Lists of Persons of Quality, 1600-1700, p. 142-143. https://archive.org/details/originallistsofp00hottuoft/page/142/mod...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bailey-1826