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Biography
Thomas Elithorpe was presumably born about 1601-1605 in the parish of Holme upon Spalding Moor, Yorkshire.[1] He married possibly Margaret[1] and had several children there.[2] After his first wife died he emigrated to America about 1638 and settled in Rowley, Massachusetts, where he remarried.[3]Arrived in New England in December 1638 aboard the ship John of London. Came with a group led by Ezekiel Rogers.
He died in 1654 and his second wife Abigail, together with Hugh Smith and John Pickard, petitioned the General Court for probate on 14 May 1654. The will mentioned eldest son Nathaniel and three other unnamed children.[4][5][6]
Research Notes
This profile had shown a death date of June 8, 1689, at Rowley, Massachusetts. That date is actually the death date of his grandson, Thomas Elithorpe, who died at Rowley June 8, 1689, unmarried.[7]
Sources
↑ 1.01.1The American Genealogist, vol. 31 (1955): 16-23. The Elithorpe Family of Yorkshire, England and New England, by John Insley Coddington. AmericanAncestors.org Reference page 20 $Subscription
↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J93X-4PX : 11 February 2018, Thomas Ellethorp in entry for Nathaniel Ellethorp, 01 Dec 1634); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 98,534.
↑The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents
by Pope, Charles Henry, published 1900, Publisher Boston, C.H. Pope
Page 155
↑Essex Institute Historical Collections
by Essex Institute , Peabody & Essex Museum, Publication date 1884, Publisher Essex Institute. Reference page 78
↑The Probate records of Essex County, Massachusetts
by Dow, George Francis, 1868-1936; Massachusetts. Probate Court (Essex County), Publication date 1916, Publisher Salem, Mass. : Essex Institute Reference page 174
↑The American Genealogist, Volume 31, (1955) page 20
↑The American Genealogist, Volume 31, (1955) page 22
The American Genealogist, vol. 31 (1955): 16-23. The Elithorpe Family of Yorkshire, England and New England, by John Insley Coddington. AmericanAncestors.org LINK
The American Genealogist, vol. 31 (1955): 24-29. Katherine (Elithorpe) (Constable) Miles, Ancestress of Certain Miles and Street Families, by John Insley Coddington. AmericanAncestors.org LINK
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Interestingly, I don't find him listed in Anderson's Great Migration Directory, and the Essex Institute article clearly shows he was resident in Rowley with a houselot in 1643. Our biography states he emigrated about 1638, but in the sources we have listed I don't find anything prior to 1643. Perhaps his arrival in New England was post-1640 and he should not be included in PGM?
In the Great Migration Newsletter, Vol. 18, p. 30 (NEHGS subscribers see: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1567/i/21162/30/45664183), although I do not find him among those profiled elsewhere in the article, he is included in the list of "[Rev.] Ezekiel Rogers' Company". This would seem to indicate his inclusion among the "some twenty families" noted by Winthrop (also see https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1567/i/21162/19/0), and imply arrival with Rogers in 1638... but, if that's the case, I don't understand why there isn't specific mention of him _as a GM immigrant_ elsewhere in Anderson and in the Newsletter.
Based on the earlier "Focus on Rowley" (by $ubscription) it appears there is nothing left of any Rowley records before 1643, so that perhaps explains the lack of a listing in GM.
Since PGM profiles are those where there is "evidence they resided in New England prior to 1641" [1] this profile, as well as those of wife and children Mary, Nathaniel, David fit better into PGM adjunct. (I note son David does not yet have a linked profile) But I'll go ahead and add PGM management and adjunct project box to the profiles we have.
Will one of you please update the biography add explanation for PGM Adjunct at the top of the profile? Thank you.
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Since PGM profiles are those where there is "evidence they resided in New England prior to 1641" [1] this profile, as well as those of wife and children Mary, Nathaniel, David fit better into PGM adjunct. (I note son David does not yet have a linked profile) But I'll go ahead and add PGM management and adjunct project box to the profiles we have.
Will one of you please update the biography add explanation for PGM Adjunct at the top of the profile? Thank you.
edit: There is a David Elithorp here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellithorp-8. This may be the David who belongs to this family.
edited by Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl