Thomas Reade

Biography

Thomas Read AKA Reade

Spelling of name

Robert Charles Anderson spelled the name "Read" in his Great Migration series, featured profile for Capt. Thomas Read, immigrant, son ofEdmund Reade and Elizabeth Cooke.

Anderson, Robert Charles, "Thomas Read" featured name The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Vol I-III, Pages 1565-67) (Online database accessed February 21, 2015: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)

The family of Capt. Thomas Read, immigrant, spelled the name, "Read" in Massachusetts, however their ancestors in England used the spelling,Reade. The early 20th C writers sometimes used the Reade spelling for the Massachusetts descendants, and this form is common now in the online data banks, since it was pulled from the older books.

Origin and Death

Thomas was the seventh child of Edmund Reade and Elizabeth Cooke. He was born on Jan 2, 1605/6 at North Benfleet, was baptized on Jan 7, 1605/6 and died on Sept 15, 1607 at North Benfleet, Essex, England.

Note: Profile reported birth and deaths at Wickford, Essex, England.

Source: Davis, Walter Goodwin, (1934)The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, 1748-1833, wife ... Portland, ME: The Southworth Press, HathiTrust.org (Page 74).