Arabella (Thompson) Williams

Born [date unknown] in Wales [uncertain]

Wife of William Williams Sr. — married 22 Sep 1657 in Groton, New London, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1708 in New London, New London, Connecticut

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Biography

Is Arabella the daughter of John and Mirable?

Jacobus in Families of Old Fairfield does not give John Thompson and Mirable Giggs (currently set as Mirabel Unknown but likely to change soon to Giggs) a daughter Arabella.^[1] She was not recorded in Stratford or mentioned in John's will. Based on this, she has been severed from those asserted parents. Her origins are unknown and the previously asserted but unsourced 1635 birth at Fairfield, Connecticut has been removed (John and Mirabel married in England in 1636 and were not known to be in Connecticut until about 1640). Her husband reportedly came from Wales and was not in Connecticut until 1663.

History of Stonington by Wheeler says William Williams married Arabella Thompson but DOES NOT assert her parentage, and had the same children listed by Savage^[2]

1. Richard
2. William m. Margaret Cooke
3. Henry m. unknown
4. Stephen
5. Mary m. Samuel Packer.

Sources

1. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, MA (compiler, editor.) History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. Fairfield, Conn.: The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930.
2. ↑ Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the town of Stonington, county of New London, Connecticut : from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, with a genealogical register of Stonington families. 1900 p. 683

• Williams Family Tree on Ancestry.