Thomas8 Browne (Christopher7, Christopher6, Christopher5, John4, John3, John2, John1) was born 1533 in Swan Hall, Hawkedon, Suffolk, England; christened in Swan Hall;
and died December 23, 1590 in Swan Hall, Hawkedon, Suffolk, England.
He married Joan ?Gabb? December 16, 1559.
Children of Thomas Browne and Joan ?Gabb? are:
John9 Browne, born in England; died May 1616 in Hawkedon, Suffolk, England.
Richard Browne, settled in New England, America;
Thomas Browne, baptized in Summertown, Jan 10, 1580
Ambrose Browne, baptized in Summertown, Jan 10, 1580;
Abraham Browne, went to America with Winthrop's fleet in 1630 [disproven]
Sarah Browne.
Notes for Thomas Browne:
Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, by Henry Bond, 1860, p. 120-2:
- 'The will of Thomas Browne, of Hawkedon is dated Dec. 22, 1590; proved Jan. 26, 1591. He had inherited the Deans and Swans and bequeathed them as follows:
'To Johan, my wife, my house wherein I dwell, with all the outhouses thereto belonginge, called and known by the name of the Deanes & Swanes, with all the lands, meadowe and pasture thereto belonginge, during her naturall life, upon this condicion floowing, viz., that she shall bringe up my children and paye all my debts and kepe my houses in good and sufficient reparacions and make no stripe or waste upon the grounde or of any Wood or Timber growinge in and uppon the same, and after the decease of the saide Johan my wife, I give all the saide howse and howses, lands meadowe and pasture with the apptences to my five sonnes, viz., to John, Richard, Thomas, Ambrose and Abraham, and their heirs, to be equally divided between and amongst them, or so many of them as shall be then livinge, by and at the discression of discrete and wise men to be chosen by the parsons of Hawkedon and Som'ton then beinge,' and bequest in money to his daughter Sarah. Witnesses, Robert Raye, minister of Hawkedon; John Rayner, Richard Gippes, 'and me Peter Cooke, Clarke the writer thereof.
-'Hawkedon is 9 miles S.S.W of Bury St. Edmunds. It is probable that the estate was sold in order to be divided among the five sons of Thomas Browne and thus passed out of the possession of that family. Swan Hall is about a mile from Hawkedon... It is probably one of the oldest residences in the County of Suffolk, England, being several hundred years old. It is built of oak and covered with plaster, excepting some of the principal beams, which are elaborately carved. The principal part of the building was taken down... The part of the building which remains does not give one any idea of its former extent.
Bassett-Preston Ancestors, by Belle Preston, 1930. Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co., New Haven, CT, p. 49:
'Thomas Browne of Swan Hall buried December 1590, had wife Joan and five sons.'
Burke's American Families with British Ancestry, 1983, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, p. 2586:
'Thomas Browne of Swan Hall, will proved at Bury St. Edmunds, 26 Jan., 1591, had issue by his wife Joan...'
