Stephen (Igulden) Eggleton (bef. 1608 - abt. 1638)

Born before 17 Jan 1608 in Biddenden, Kent, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Bennett) Patchen — married 30 Nov 1628 in Biddenden, Kent, England

Died about 1638 after about age 29 in North Atlantic

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Biography

Origins

Stephen, son of Stephen Igulden, was baptized Jan 17, 1607/8, listed in the Register of All Saints Church, Biddenden, Kent, England.^[1] He was the son of Stephen Igulden and Sarah Heffenden Iggleden.^[2]

Marriage

On 30 Nov. 1628, Stephen Iggulden married Elizabeth (Bennett) at All Saints Church, Biddenden, Kent, England^[3] and together they had the following children baptized in Biddenden, Kent:^[4]

Death

Stephen had died by 16 Jun 1638, the date of the will of one Peter Branch, in which Peter left a bequest "to Widowe Igleden the late wife of Stephen Igleden..."^[5][6] Jacobus claimed that in 1638 while on his way to New England on the ship Castle with his wife and children, Stephen died at sea on board the vessel "Castle",^[7] but there is no proof that Stephen (or any of the family) boarded the Castle or died at sea, only that he had died by the time of the writing of Peter's will and that Peter had left Stephen's widow a possible bequest.

After his death, his widow married Joseph Patchen April 10, 1642 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.^[8]

Children

1. Elizabeth Iggulden, bp. 31 Jan 1629/30 in Biddenden; bur 25 July 1630
2. Ruth Iggleden bp. 8 Nov 1631 in Biddenden^[9]
3. Elizabeth Iggulden bp 11 May 1634. in Biddenden^[10]
4. Hannah Iggulden bp 9 Oct 1636, Biddenden;^[11] died at Roxbury, Mass. 20 Oct 1646, age 10 years.

Research Notes

See Egelden, Iggulden, Eggleton, Eggleston, Children of Massachusetts concerning the confusion surrounding Stephen and his wife Elizabeth.

Richard Iggleden, mariner, of Boston, who m. Ann Prince is called by Savage, son of Stephen, but no evidence for this was given.^[4]

1650, Sarah Eggleton m. John Nutting & in 1655, Ruth Eggleton m. Samuel Blodgett. These two have also been suggested as children of Stephen by Savage and others. However, it was pointed out by Arthur G. Loring in 1674 that Nutting and Blodgett agreed to support their mother-in-law Jane, widow of Isaac Cole. Widow Jane was b. about 1600, was formerly wife of James Britton, and evidently earlier still wife of an Eggleton, who was the father of Sarah & Ruth (See Register 59:417)^[4] Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates 1: 285, states that Ruth was not the Ruth daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Bennett) Iggleton of Biddenden, Kent. The widow Elizabeth and three daughters, including a Ruth, did come to New England 1635 on the Castle; they settled in Roxbury.

Sources

1. ↑ "England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911," Kent > Biddenden > Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1669 > image 101 of 205 at FamilySearch.org; Kent Archives Office, Maidstone.
2. ↑ Kent England, Tyler Index to Parish Registers, Biddenden
3. ↑ "England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911," Kent > Biddenden > Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1669 > image 139 of 205 at FamilySearch.org; Kent Archives Office, Maidstone.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 65:187 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911) image 199, pp. 187 at HathiTrust.org. {Regarding the family of Iggleden; baptisms, marriages, burials, wills, etc. and variant spellings}
5. ↑ Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, 1636-1899; Probate Court (Suffolk County); Probate Place: Suffolk, Massachusetts, Probate Records, Vol 1-4, 1628-1667; Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991 images 13-14 of 832, pp. 11-13 by subscription at Ancestry.com.
6. ↑ "Abstracts of Earliest Wills Upon Record in the County of Suffolk, MS," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2 (1848):183 (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1848), image 193 of 448, p. 183 at HathiTrust.org.
7. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield vol. 1, pt. 5 (Fairfield: The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, 1932); images 10-11 of 144, pp. 464-65 at HathiTrust.org; entry for Joseph Patchen.
8. ↑ Vital Records of Roxbury Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Volume II.--Marriages and Deaths. (p. 311) Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1926.
9. ↑ "England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911," Kent > Biddenden > Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1669 > image 143 of 205 at FamilySearch.org; Kent Archives Office, Maidstone.
10. ↑ "England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911," Kent > Biddenden > Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1669 > https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RGH-5PP?cc=1952887&wc=M62M-DTP%3A252597701%2C252644501%2C252645701 image 145 of 205] at FamilySearch.org; Kent Archives Office, Maidstone.
11. ↑ "England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911," Kent > Biddenden > Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1669 > [[1] image 148 of 205] at FamilySearch.org; Kent Archives Office, Maidstone. "The record indicates the father's name as Steven but the mother's name as "Margaret;" Daniel and Margaret Iggulden were having children at the same time as Stephen and Elizabeth; as there was no known Margaret married to a Steven/Stephen Iggulden, it is assumed there was a recording error.