William Warren (abt. 1557)

Born about 19 Nov 1557 in Therfield, Hertfordshire, England

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Biography

William Warren (recorded as "Wilim. Waren") was christened at Therfield, Hertfordshire, on 19 November 1557, a son of William Warren. He would appear to be the William Warren whose marriage to "Elizabetha Heade" was recorded at Therfield on 18 October 1584, when he would have been about 27.

No certain death record has been found for William to date (Sept. 2021). The NEHGS database does contain an index-only record of the death of a Guilielmus Warren in 1629, but no location is given;^[1] on cross-checking with FamilySearch, this appears to be a man who died at Margate, in Kent.^[2]

Research Notes

The William of this profile is a reasonable, but certainly unproven, candidate as the father of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren. Richard's origins have been traced, albeit without full certainty, to the area surrounding Great Amwell, Hertfordshire (where he married Elizabeth Walker in 1610); it is thought that he may be the Richard, son of William, christened at St. Albans in 1585.

Therfield, roughly two dozen miles to the north, is certainly within striking distance of St. Albans, but considerable research needs to be done to ascertain whether the William – with wife Elizabeth – of Therfield removed to (or near) St. Albans, and may indeed have fathered the eventual London merchant who emigrated to Plymouth in 1620.

The birthplace of William's spouse, "Elizabetha Heade", has not been found, and the surname does not appear to be common in Hertfordshire in the time period. A "Luce Headay" was christened on 28 April 1563 at Weston,^[3] about half a dozen miles southwest of Therfield, a possible clue to the location of Elizabeth's family, but little more has been found to suggest her origins.

Sources

1. ↑ England: Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Original index: England: Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991. FamilySearch, 2014.); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB545/rd/334584873 (by subscription)
2. ↑ "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J861-9ZC : 15 March 2020), Guilielmus Warren, 1629.
3. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NYQM-YPJ : 10 April 2021), Luce Headay, 1563.

• Birth (christening): "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J979-V2V : 19 September 2020), Wilim. Waren, 1557.

• Marriage (presumed; as "Gulielmu. Waren"): "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N286-B2H : 13 March 2020), Gulielmu. Waren, 1584. Alt. transcript (NEHGS; index-only listing): England: Marriages, 1538-1973. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Original index: England Marriages, 1538-1973. FamilySearch, 2014.); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB544/rd/318536226 (by subscription)