Thomas Mattle

Thomas Mattle, born say 1575, died before 1670 & his unknown wife were the parents of

1. Robert, born October 5, 1595, died before 1670.
2. William, bp April 6, 1599
3. Ann, born 1604, married Robert Douglas.

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Anne Mattle, wife of William Douglas, immigrated to New England with her husband by 1640.

Anne Mattle (also recorded as Motley) was the daughter of Thomas Mattle of Ringstead, Northamptonshire, where she was born in 1601 or in about 1604. In a May 1670 deposition in Boston, she said she was age 66 (indicating birth in about 1604) and was the only surviving heir of Thomas Mattle of Ringstead.[1][2] A daughter of Thomas Motley named Anne was baptized at Denford (which was served by the same vicar who served Ringstead) on 20 September 1601. This might be her baptism; or it is also possible that the child baptized in 1601 died young, and this Anne was born in about 1604, but does not have a surviving baptism record. (The is a gap in the baptism records of children of Thomas for the years between 1601 and 1606.)[1]

Hathi Trust archived copy of "A Collection of Family Records, With Biographical Sketches, and Other Memoranda of Various Families and Individuals Bearing the Name Douglas, or Allied To Families of That Name" by Charles Henry James Douglas; E.L. Freeman and Co. Publishers; published 1879. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062865316&view=1up&seq=70

Notes

Page 60-61 (70-71 on slider):

"By May, 1670, Mrs. Douglas made a journey to Boston and appeared before Gov. Bellingham in order to establish her claim to an inheritance which has fallen to her in the old country...that she was the daughter of Thomas and the sister of Robert Mattle of Ringstead. But father and brother are now dead, and Ann was proved to be legal heir to both. She was at this time 60 years of age, and was, consequently, born in 1610...Mrs. Douglas died in New London about 1685. They had but five children as far as known.

References

• Douglas Gen. by C.H.C. Douglas, 1879, p.51, 53, 55
• Will of Thomas Matley pv. 1612/13 Archdeaconry North Hampton
• New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 page 74. < AncestrySharing > 1670, James Johnson, glover, explains that he knew Ann (Matle) Douglas & her brother Robert Matle of Ringstead, children of Thomas Matle. Elizabeth Meares, widow, now of Boston, formerly of Little Broughdon in Northamptonshire, aged about sixty eight years, deposed to the same facts. [Douglas Gen 516]