Thomas Hobart of Plumstead

Not the same as Thomas Hobart of Snoring Magna

Thomas Hobart of Snoring Manor in Plumsread of the County of Norfolk, England, was born between 1525-1537 and christened in Hingham Parish. He died on 17 Jan 1599 in Hingham, Norfolk, England.

Parents: son of Miles Hobbart (b. Abt 1479, Norwich, Norfolk, England) and Ellinor Blaverhasset (b. Abt 1507, of Norfolk, Norfolk, England - d. Bef 22 Feb 1557, of , Norfolk, England)

Married:

1. Abt 1561 of Plumstead, Norfolk, England to Audrea Hare [2], daughter of William and Alice (Rugge) Hare

4 children of Thomas Hobart and Audrea Hare include:

1. Henry Hobart - born 1553 - married Dorothy Bell, the daughter of Robert and Dorothy (Beaupre) Bell -Henry died December 29, 1625, about 72 years old.
2. Miles Hobart - born 1564
3. Mary Hobart - born about 1567
4. Ellin Hobart - born about 1569

Notes

• Thomas Hobart was probably the first of the dissenting Puritans in the Hobart line. St. Andrews Church records show that Thomas, who was lord of the manor in Hingham, was married to Helen Winsofer on July 30, 1569, at Snoring Magna, Essex. He died on May 30, 1603.
• 1. Edmund's parents were: Thomas Hobart bc 1531 Snoring Magna, Norfolk, m 30 July 1569 Snoring Magna, Helena Winsofer
• 2. grandparents: Andrew Hobart and Margery Ryce, dau of Robert Ryce (she gives information that Edmund was a second son of Thomas and that Thomas and Helena had as their first son Andrew, baptised probably at St. Andrew's church in Snoring Magna on 25 Jan 1572; thus Thomas' first son was named for his father; was their second son Edmund named for Helena's father????)
• 3. gt gr parents: Nicholas Hobart and Joan Stansbury
• 4. 2nd gt grpar: William Hobart of Monks Leigh born in the 18th year of the reign of Edward the Fourth, died 23 Feb 1517; no wife given
• 5. 3rd gt grpar: Thomas Hobart (of Gedford Street?) who was alive in 1494; no wife given Sir James Hobart of Hales Hall from whom the line down to Henry and Dorothy Bell descend, was his son and thus brother of William of Monks Leigh.
• Known as Thomas "The Martyr" - burned at the stake.
• Refused to recant his Protestantism. One of 300 burned at the stake on May 26, 1555, Essex, England. Q.V. Fox's "Book of Martyrs" (Book III, Chapter 14), under the name of Thomas Higbed. During reign of Queen Anne From "The Ancestors and Descendents of Rev. Henry Clark "

Others belive that Higbed and Hubbard are two separate people.

Links

• http://www.richardpyoung.org/getperson.php?personID=I2842&tree=young01
• e daughter of William and Alice (Rugge) Hare

NOT to be confused with:

Thomas HUBBARD was born about 1530. He died on 26 Mar 1555.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131934264/thomas-hobart

Also known as Thomas Hubbard, leading to great confusion and wrong descents,On a plaque in Plumstead Parva church: "Here lieth Thomas Hubbard, Esq., who departed this life 26 March, 1560, and left issue 2 sonnes and 2 daughters."

Son of Miles Hobart and Ellinor Blaverhassett. From a book, written by Samuel Hubbard, his grandson:Thomas Hubbard was gentleman residing at Hornden on the Hill in Essex, "of good estate and great estimation in that county" and withal 'zealous and religious in the true service of God.' An informer discovered him to Edward Bonner, Bishop of London, who imprisoned him at Colchester and paid him the honor of a visit to convert him. Later he was removed to London, thrice examined at the consistory of St. Paul's, and, remaining obdurate, was sentenced by the Bishop, 'before the Mayor and Sheriffs in the presence there of all the people assembled', to be burned for his heresy. A fortnight later he was 'fast bound in a cart' - and brought to his 'appointed place of torment' - the village in which he had lived. There on the 26th of May 1555, he sealed his fate says the narrator, shedding his blood in 'the most cruel fire to the glory of God and the great joy of the godly'. Before being burned alive, it is reported that Thomas' last words were believed to have been "Forgive them Lord, they don't know what they do. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"His maternal grandsire, though possessing similar convictions, was more fortunate; yet he too, was the object of suspicion and search. As late as 1682, Mr. Samuel Hubbard had in his Newport house a testament printed in 1549, which Thomas Cocke of Ipswich,(England), his mother's father, had brought safely through those fiery days by hiding it in his bed straw. To a man of Mr. Hubbard's turn of mind this volume, with such a history, must have been a priceless treasure. In all probability, the testament was a later edition of the translation from the Greek by Tyndale made in the reign of Henry VIII, which says Welsh, 'revised by Coverdale and edited in 1539 as Cromwell's Bible, and again in 1540 as Cranmer's Bible, was set up in every parish church by the very sovereign who had caused the translator to be strangled and burned'. To this testament some special authority was attached, it appears, for it was consulted by parties at a considerable distance."It is believed that the story of Thomas Highbed in Fox's Book of Martyrs, refers to him.

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