Person:John Thayer (1)

Many genealogist have researched the English origins of the Thayer family of New England including Douglas Richardson,^[1] Neil D. Thompson,^[2] and Clifford L. Stott.^[3] In 2004, The New England Historic Genealogical Society published Part III of "The ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908" reflecting the current state of research on this topic. In it the authors identify the person represented by this profile as "unknown Thayer" possibly the husband of "Constance ____." Only four children are identified:

1. JOHN, born say 1530
2. THOMAS, born say 1533; buried at Thornbury, Gloucester, 17 March 1573;married by 1558 ____
3. JOAN, born say 1533; married at Thornbury, Gloucester, 15 November 1553 THOMAS JAMES
4. CONSTANCE, born say 1540; married at Thornbury, Gloucester, 19 February 1560(/1 ?] THOMAS HOLDBROOKE^[4]

The other children show on this profile probably have no proven connection to this family group. The maiden name of his wife Constance is unknown. And the first name of the person represented by this profile is unsubstantiated.

1. ↑ The American Genealogist (1983)59:179
2. ↑ The American Genealogist (July 1001) 74:187-89
3. ↑ The American Genealogist (April 1998)73:81-90
4. ↑ Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004) The ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892 Part 3: p 370