Person:Thomas Prence (3)

Thomas Prence
  1. Thomas PrenceAbt 1575 - Bef 1630
m. Bef 1600
  1. Gov. Thomas PrenceAbt 1600 - 1673
  2. Mercy PrenceAbt 1600 -
  3. Susanna Prence1602 -
  4. Rebecca Prence1604 -
  5. Katherine Prence1606 -
Facts and Events
Name Thomas Prence
Alt Name Thomas Prince, III
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1575 Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England
Christening[1] 29 Jan 1576 Bristol, Gloucestershire, EnglandSaint Mary-Le-Port
Marriage Bef 1600 Lechlade, Gloucester, Englandto Elizabeth Tolderby
Death[2] Bef 14 Aug 1630 Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England
Burial? Middlesex, EnglandAll Saints Barking?
Ancestral File Number 8N0W-FL

of Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England and All Saints or Hollow, Barking, London, carriage-maker; does not mention Mercy in 1630 will, but left a legacy to his son thomas Prence "now remaining in New England in the parts beyond the seas" [EIHC 7:103-04, citing PCC 70 Scroope] The Great Migration Begins says Lechdale, Gloucestershire.

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bob_fitzgerald&id=I19573

"Thomas Prence, senior, removed from Lechlade at an unknown date to All Saints, Barking, London,where he carried on the trade of carriage-maker, and where on July 31, 1630 he made his will, which was probated on August 14, following. It made bequests to daughter Katherine Crayford, daughter Rebecca Diple, and 'to son Thomas Prence now remayninge in new England in the pts beyond the seas one beere bole of silver and alsoe my seale Ringe of gold to be deld to him at his next return . . .' ".

He was "Thomas Prince of All Hallows, Barking, London, carriage maker." He "had lived at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, before coming to London, but the parish records, such as survive in transcripts, do not indicate that this was the original home of the family. nterseting contemporary letters concerning the father and grandfather of Governor Prence are in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Thomas Prince, Senior, of All Hallows, in his will of 1630 mentions 'my son Thomas Prence now remayninge in New England in parts beyond seas' (P.C.C. 70, Scrope). As he bequeaths a 'seale Ringe of Gold' to his son, it may be presumed that the family was armigerous. The future Governor was brought up in the neighborhood whence came so many of the passengers of the first two ships, and the Mayflower must have taken her passengers in sight of his home, near the Tower.

The proper spelling of this surname is Prince and it was so written by his immediate and collateral forebears, but he chose to write it as Prence. He lived in the hamlet of Ratcliffe, parish of Stepney, as a boy and probably remained there with his parents until his emigration."


Name may have originally been Prince. Was a carriage maker at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, but was at All Hallows (Saints), Barking, London, when he made his will 31 July 1639. (1630 in one source)

References
  1. Ancestral File.
  2. Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).