Person:Thomas Kimberley (1)
Thomas Kimberley
chr.24 Jun 1604 Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England
d.Bet 11 Jan 1672 and 12 Feb 1672 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 4 Oct 1602
  1. Eleazar KimberleyAbt 1600 -
  2. Thomas Kimberley1604 - 1672
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Thomas Kimberley1604 - 1672
  • W.  Alice AtwoodAbt 1608 - 1659
m. 28 Aug 1628
  1. Abraham KimberleyEst 1630 - Bef 1680
  2. Thomas Kimberley1632 - 1705
  3. Nathaniel KimberleyEst 1636 - 1705
  4. Mary Kimberley1637 -
  5. Eleazar Kimberley1639 - 1708/09
  6. Abiah Kimberley1641 - 1723
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Thomas Kimberley1604 - 1672
  • W.  Mary UnknownAbt 1601 -
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Thomas Kimberley
Alt Name[3][4] Thomas Kimberly
Gender Male
Christening[3][4] 24 Jun 1604 Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England
Marriage 28 Aug 1628 Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, Englandto Alice Atwood
Marriage to Mary Unknown
Emigration[4] 1635
Residence[4] 1635 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[4] 1639 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Other[4] 3 Nov 1639 Admitted member of the court at New Haven.
Residence[4] 1668 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Will[3] 11 Jan 1672 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Occupation[4] Tailor.
Death[3] Bet 11 Jan 1672 and 12 Feb 1672 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (probably)
Estate Inventory[4] 12 Feb 1672 £160 16s., of which £70 was real estate.

Was of Stratford, England. "He came with the noncormists to Dorchester in 1636. Admitted a freeman in November 1639. Marshal of the New Haven Colony 1643-1661. Married (2) Mary Seabrook [as late as 2007, the identity of Mary, wife of William Preston and Thomas Kimberly, remains unknown] Preston. D. at Stratford, Conn., in 1673.

Tailor by trade. Bought land in Stratford, CT in Oct 1663. Will recorded there. Abstracts Of Fairfield Probate Records, Reel No. 5, 23 Apr 1999. "Kimberle, Thomas, Sergeant, late of Stratford, will dated Jan. 11,1672, probated Mch. 12, 1672, mentioned his wife Mary, and children Abia Boardman, and her three children, Eleaser, Nathaniel, Thomas, Abraham, and his wife Hanna, and their daughter Mary, legacies to Hackaliah Preston and Joseph Preston; grandchildren Nathaniel, Elizabeth and Mary Hayes. Executrix his wife. Overseers Richard Booth, John Picket, Sr., and John Preston. Witnesses John Minor and Israel Chancey, page 67. Inventory taken Feb. 12, 1672, by Richard Booth, John Wilcockson, and Robert Clarke, and filed Mch. 12,1672, page 68."

References
  1. ↑ Boughton, Willis A. Bouton, Boughton and Farnam Families. (Fort Lauderdale, FL: W.A. Boughton, c1949)
    144.
  2. ↑ Trethewey, Mrs. Arthur J., and James C. Kimberly. The Kimberly Genealogy. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr, Oct 1948)
    102:102.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family. (Neenah, Wisconsin, United States: Privately Printed for James Cheney Kimberly by George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, 1950)
    7.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Thomas Kimberly, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    4:160-66.

    ORIGIN: Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.
    MIGRATION: 1635 (based on Dorchester land grant of 18 February 1645/6 [DTR 15]).
    OCCUPATION: Tailor (on 1 March 1652/3, New Haven court "not being able to judge of the clothes, with Goodman Bishop's consent referred it to Thomas Kimberly and Thomas Wheeler, two tailors" [NHTR 1:167].
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: On 4 June 1639, "Tho[mas] Kimberley" was one of the founders of the New Haven church [NHCR 1:17].
    FREEMAN: On 3 November 1639, "Thomas Kimberly was admitted member of the court [at New Haven] and received his charge" [NHCR 1:9, 24].

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