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Thomas Birkbe (bef. 1584)

Thomas Birkbe aka Barkbie, Burkby, Burpe, Birkby, Burkbe
Born before in Malton, Yorkshire, Englandmap
Son of and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 23 Nov 1606 in Methley, Yorkshire, Englandmap
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown] in Englandmap
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Biography

Thomas was christened on March 10, 1584 in Malton, Yorkshire, England.[1][2][3]

Thomas Burkby of Malton may or may not be the Thomas "Barkby" who married Beatrice Webster on November 23, 1606 in Methley. "Thomas Barkbie & Bettrist Webster was maried the 23 day of Nov." [4]

"Bettrist" had been born in Bradfield, Yorkshire, the daughter of Richard and Beatrice (Skynner) Webster, in the winter of 1583/4 (chr. 10 Feb 1583/4). [5]

It has been asserted that they were the parents of the Thomas Burkby who was supposedly christened in Yorkshire in 1629, but I (Barry Wood) am unable to confirm that. It seems a stretch as Beatrice would have been 45 or 46 years old by then.

Research Notes

Contrary to the prior version of this profile, Methley (the place of the wedding of Thomas "Barkbie" and Bettrist Webster, is not "nearby" to Malton. The two locations are about 70 miles apart (78 road miles by the most convenient modern route).

Curiously enough, "Betryce" Copley, daughter of John & Margaret (Stapleton) Copley, married James Birkby of York (alderman and MP), per the Visitation of Yorkshire, 1563. This John Copley was the heir and great grandson of Sir Richard Copley of Batley Hall. [6]

This James Birkby was Mayor of York, nad the oldest son of James Birkby of York. Mayer James Birkby had a son named Alverey who matriculated at Cambridge in 1580/1. [7]

Alverey was vicar of Hitchin, Herts., 1593-1604 and vicar of Kimpton, 1603-16 (unless these records relate to a cousin, Alverey son of Christopher Birkby). [8]

The subject Mayor James Birkby is identified in an Ancestry Tree (the Alison Blaine Family Tree) as having been born in 1575, but that date is much too late considering that his son Alverey would have been at Cambridge the next year. If one figures that Alverey graduated at age 22, he would have been born about 1558. Assuming that his father was about 30 years old when Alverey was born, a birth year of 1525 for Mayor James Birkby seems much more reasonable than anything after 1540.

This James Birkby "may have been the son of Alyce Byrkebye, widow, who died in March or April 1562 at Dewsbury, West Riding, for he later bought extensive properties there and he called his younger daughter Alice. [The daughter Alice] married Henry Hall."[9]

Mayor James Birkby, like his father before him, was Sheriff's Clerk of York, and for a time (1571-2) he was Sheriff himself. He was elected MP for York in 1593 and again in 1597, but on the latter occasion he complained that he was "old and unwieldy [and] could not ride with less than two men, one to help him and wait upon him in his chamber, and another to look to his horse." [10]

James Birkby, MP, died on 8 March 1610 [presumably 1609/10]. In his will, he named his son Alvery as executor.

[I am pouring the above notes into Thomas Burkby's profile as holding place for the future creation of profiles on Alvery Birkby and the two generations before him... but no time to do that now. - Barry Wood 15 Jan 2024]


Sources

  1. "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66BF-SNHW: 23 February 2022), Thomas Birkbe, 1584.
  2. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N154-SX1: 10 April 2021), Thomas Birkbe, 1584.
  3. "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66BF-SNHW: 23 February 2022), Thomas Birkbe, 1584.
  4. "England, Yorkshire, Bishop's Transcripts, 1547-1957", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68ZZ-V93M: 4 August 2022), Thomas Barkbie, 1606.
  5. Bradfield Parish Register, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NLSB-WQB.
  6. https://ia800205.us.archive.org/16/items/visitationsofyor16flow/visitationsofyor16flow.pdf.
  7. https://ia800205.us.archive.org/16/items/visitationsofyor16flow/visitationsofyor16flow.pdf.
  8. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/7119:3997.
  9. https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/birkby-james-1557-1610.
  10. https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/birkby-james-1557-1610.

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Acknowledgments

This person was created through the import of Beaman Family Tree.ged on 31 March 2011.





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The incomplete sentence "It is unknown when they emigrated to America however they a child born in Yorkshire in 1629 and " should be removed from the biography not merely on account of its bad grammar but also because it is far from established that these people ever "came to America."

The statement that they had a "child born in Yorkshire in 1629" appears to be a reference to the notion that the child in question was supposedly Thomas Burkby of Rowley, Mass. However, this is at odds with the statement he gave at a deposition 18 March 1671/2, when he was "aged about 58 years," about his acquisition of a 1.5 acre lot in Rowley from Thomas Elithorp in exchange for a cow and other consideration.

Thomas Burckbee (so spelled in the record) said that "Goodman Elithorp....had told mee severall times that my father had desired him to take care of mee when he came to New England & told mee that he would make mee deeds of Lands when I would....." https://archive.org/details/recordsfilesofqu05esse/page/18/mode/2up.

This establishes that Thomas Burkby of Rowley was born around 1613; certainly before 1615, as he would not have pretended to be older than he really was. Further, the testimony suggests that Thomas Burkby of Rowley left his father in England, and came to Massachusetts about the same time as Thomas Elithorp. Thomas Elithorpe "arrived in New England in December 1638 aboard the ship John of London." See his profile, Elithorpe-17.

posted by Barry Wood

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