Person:Thomas Wilbore (3)

According to the court rolls of Colchester of 30 Sept. 1549: Thomas Wilbore, born at Ruston (Royston) Yorkshire,Tailor, was made Justice of the Peace. On 6 Sept. 1555 there were bailiffs elected for the common council. On the head ward waws Thomas Wilbore,William Simpson,John Jankyn, and John Dethick. On this date Richard Wilbore was admitted a burgess, born in Notton in Co., York, sherman or shereman, the sureties being Thomas Wilbore and Richard Whale.On 30 Sept. 1562 Thomas Wilbore and his wife,Alice, made a deed, and for the consideration of 26 pounds 13 s and 4d paid to them by William Ram of St. Peters parish in Colchester, and sold and confirmed to "said Wm. Ram all that tenement with garden adjoing, formerly of John Holmes and afterwards of Thos Lawrence and later of James Cole and ellen his wife, situate in Holy Trinity parish, beyond Le shire gate between the lot called Beriwshane on the north side, and the highway leading towards a certain grene called St. John's Grene on the south side which tenement and garden I had myself from Henry Asshely, late of Colchester, shereman and Joan his wife as can be more be fully seen by deed of Jany 7, 1558. To have and to hold by William Ram and Marion his wife,dated Sept. 30,1562" 1

1. ↑ A. Donovan Faust (Foust). A Family History: The Ancestors of Thomas Wilson Faust. (1997).
2.   Faust, Donovan. A Family History.

   "Thomas Wilbore was born in the West Riding section of Yorkshire in 1482. He was just a year old when a series of coups and killings began which rocked the English monarchy. Richard of Gloucester deposed Edward V to become Richard III; Edward and his brother were later murdered in the Tower of London; two years later, Henry Tudor, the Earl of Richmond, defeated and killed Richard III at the battle of Bosworth and became Henry VII, first of the Tudor monarchs.
   
   Sometime before 1519, Thomas married a woman named Alice; who was from Colchester, Essex. He left the rocky hills and relatively poor soils of western Yorkshire to live at Halford in her home county of Essex where the land was immeasurably better. The couple's first child was born there, after which they moved to her birthplace of Colchester where two more children were added. He died there at age 82.
   Thomas Wilbore lived during a time when European countries began staking out positions in the Americas. During the fifty years after Christopher Columbus discovered the West Indies and claimed them for Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, several other historic expeditions occurred. Other Spaniards also were active: Ponce de Leon explored Florida in 1513; Hernan Cortes conquered Mexico in 1521; and Hernando do Soto discovered the Mississippi in 1541. Other countries, too, had their adventurers: Pedro Cabral claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500; John Cabot carried the English flag to the Canadian maritime provinces in 1497; and Frenchman Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River in 1535 to establish a position there for France.
   
   About a hundred years later, Thomas Wilbore's great grandson Samual Wilbore crossed the same waters the explorers had sailed to make a new home in North America."