Thomas
Ridgway
Born in Wickham, Welford Parish, Berkshire, England
Ancestors 
Brother of
Richard Ridgway, Richard Ridgway, Richard Ridgeway Jr., Elizabeth (Ridgeway) Willets, Joseph Ridgeway, William Ridgway, Sarah Ridgway, Josiah Ridgeway Sr., Job Ridgeway [half], Abigail Ridgway [half], Mary (Ridgway) Garwood [half], Sarah Ridgway [half], Jane (Ridgway) Antrim [half], John Ridgway [half] and Joseph Ridgway [half]
Husband of
Anna (Pharo) Ridgway
— married
1699 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Job Ridgway, John Ridgway, Timothy Ridgway, Thomas Ridgway, Catherine Ridgway, Edward Ridgway, Ann (Ridgway) Gaunt, Elizabeth Ridgway, Richard Ridgway, Robert Ridgway and Jacob Ridgway Sr
Died
at age 47
in Little Egg Harbor, Burlington, Province of New Jersey
Profile last modified
| Created 31 May 2011
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Biography
Thomas was a Friend (Quaker)
Son of Richard and Elizabeth (Chamberlain) Ridgway/Ridgeway
Born in England in 1677.
On 6th day, 9th month of 1699 (Old Style Date), Thomas produced to Burlington Monthly Meeting, a certificate from Chesterfield Monthly Meeing, to marry Ann Pharo.[1]
Thomas married Ann Pharo on 6th day, 9th month, 1699 (OSD). [1]
Married Elizabeth Andrews in 1712.
Died in New Jersey in 1724.
Sources
- Durand, Hortense Funsten, and Howard S. F. Randolph. The ancestors and descendants of Colonel David Funsten and his wife Susan Everard Meade. New York : The Knickerbocker Press, 1926. Pages 67-68.
- Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. 2, p. 252.
- Ridgway, George C. Descent of the Ridgway-Ridgeway family in England and America. Evansville, Indiana: Ridgway, Second Edition, 1926. Pages 59, 60, 70-71.
- Swartz, Glen Ancestral Lines - America to Europe: Preachers - Farmers - Soldiers (Website visited December 25, 2008)
- Find A Grave: Memorial #75350033 for Thomas Ridgway, Sr (25 Jul 1677–15 Jan 1724), citing Friends Burial Ground, Tuckerton, Ocean County, New Jersey, USA.
- Woolman, John ; ed. by Amelia Mott Gummere The Journal and Essays of John Woolman - Rancocas Edition Publication: Name: The MacMillan Company; Repository: Electronic Book, downloaded from http://books.google.com/ PDF Library of Claude P Perry II
- Northwestern Historical Association. Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Northwest Historical Association., Madison, Wisconsin, 1904, Vol. 1, p. 60-63). CAUTION: Some of the information about Thomas and his family in this source is at odds with other sources cited for this profile.
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