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Thomas Emerson 1540 – 1595 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1540

Birth Location: Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Death Date: 15 Oct 1595

Death Location: Great Dunmow, Essex, England

Father: Radus Emerson

Mother: Lady Lawrence

Spouse(s): Joanna Brasse

Children(s): Ortus Emersone, Robert Emerson

In 1540, Thomas Emerson entered the world in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, born to Radus Emerson and Lady Elsabethe "Isabelle" (Holmes) Lawrence. Thomas Emerson married Joanna Brasse, and had children including Ortus Robert Emersone, Robert Emerson. Thomas Emerson passed away in 1595 in Great Dunmow, Essex, England.

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Biography

  • In 1540, Thomas Emerson entered the world in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, born to Radus Emerson and Lady Elsabethe "Isabelle" (Holmes) Lawrence.
  • Thomas Emerson married Joanna Brasse, and had children including Ortus Robert Emersone, Robert Emerson.
  • Thomas Emerson passed away in 1595 in Great Dunmow, Essex, England.

Immediate Family

Parents

Radus Emerson
1506 – 1552
Birth Location: Foxton, Durham, England
RE
Lady Lawrence
1518 – 1570
Birth Location: Cambridge
LL

Spouses(s)

Joanna Brasse
1542 – 1607
Birth Location: Great Dunmow, Essex, England
JB

Children(s)

Ortus Emersone
1561 – 1621
Birth Location: Bishops Stortford, East Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, England
OE
Robert Emerson
– 1620
Birth Location: –
RE

Thomas Emerson's Ancestors

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Thomas Emerson
1540 – 1595
Birth Place: Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Parents
Radus Emerson
1506 – 1552
Foxton, Durham, England
Lady (Elsabethe "Isabelle" (Holmes)) Lawrence
1518 – 1570
Cambridge
Grandparents
Robert (II) Emeryson
1462 – 1562
Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
Marjorie (Margaret) Elliott
1470 – 1597
Sherfield Upon Loddon, Hampshire, England
Reverend (Earl John Richard) Lawrence
1500 – 1551
Rumburgh, Suffolk, England
Countess (Elizabeth Holt St.) Clair
1510 – 1583
Bexley, Hertfordshire, England
Great-Grandparents
Earl Lawrence
1474 – 1500
Lady Hacker
1475 – 1572
Arthur Clair
1477 – 1525
Phoeba Bayard
1463 – 1525
2nd-Great-Grandparents

Thomas Emerson's Descendants

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Thomas Emerson (1540 – 15 Oct 1595) m. Joanna Brasse (1542 – abt 1607)
  1. 1. Ortus (Robert) Emersone (25 Oct 1561 – 1621) m. Susanna ("Anna") Crabbe (24 Nov 1556 – 20 Nov 1626)
    1. 1. Thomas (Frederic) Emerson (1591 – Jan 1660) m. Elizabeth Brewster (26 July 1584 – About 1666) m. Margaret Froe (1591 – 1656)
      1. 1. Joseph Emerson (25 June 1620 – 3 Jan 1680) m. Elizabeth Woodmansey (1638 – 24 December 1654)
        1. 1. James Emerson (1649 – 1756) m. Sarah Ingersoll (1657 – 13 Oct 1732)
  2. 2. Robert Emerson ( – abt 1620) m. Susan Crabb (1556 – abt 1626)

Thomas Emerson's Timeline

5 Records

1540
1540
Birth of Thomas Emerson in Great Dunmow, Essex, England
Great Dunmow, Essex, England
1540
1540
Birth of Thomas Emerson in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1561
1561
Age 21
Thomas Emerson was married in Nottinghamshire: - Register of Marriages, 1538-1812
Nottinghamshire: - Register of Marriages, 1538-1812
1595
15 Oct 1595
Age 55
Death of Thomas Emerson in Great Dunmow, Essex, England
Great Dunmow, Essex, England
1850
1850-1907
Age 310
Thomas Emerson resided here in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1540
    Event Place: Great Dunmow, Essex, England

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1540
    Event Place: Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
    Record Source: Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850, New England Historical Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vitals to 1850

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Marriage
    Event Date: 1561
    Event Place: Nottinghamshire: - Register of Marriages, 1538-1812

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Date: 1850-1907
    Event Place: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
    Record Source: Worcester County, Massachusetts Memoirs, Volume I-II

    Genealogy Event 5
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Place: Furnivalls Inne in Holborne, Middlesex, England
    Record Source: England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 86

    Genealogy Event 6
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Place: USA
    Record Source: The English Emersons

    Genealogy Event 7
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 15 Oct 1595
    Event Place: Great Dunmow, Essex, England

    Genealogy Event 8
    Event Type: Burial
    Event Place: Old Windsor, Berkshire, England
    Record Source: UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975
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