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Thomas was born in 1589 and baptised on 16 July 1589 at Stratford-on-Avon in the County of Warwick, England. He was the son of Thomas Henshaw and Joan Garlick.[1]
There is no universal consensus on the name of Thomas Henshaw's wife. A marriage record has been located for the marriage of Thomas Henshawe and Katharin Gowre on 2 July 1618 at Saint Lawrence Pountney, London, London, England.[2] This is often said to be the marriage of this Thomas Henshaw. However, he appears to have been conflated with Thomas Henshaw of Basset's Fee and Benton-Place, in Shipley, son of William Henshaw of County Sussex. Records exist to show that it was Thomas Henshaw, son of William Henshaw, who married 1st Jane Wistow, daughter of Richard Wistow of London, and 2nd Katherine, daughter of Walter Gower of Worcester.[3]
Correct wife of this Thomas Henshaw is Elizabeth Cresser. A marriage record has been located in Stratford-on-Avon, County Warwick, and their known children were born there.
Possible children of Thomas Henshaw and Eliza Cresser, of Stratford-on-Avon in County Warwick.[1]
There are four Margaret Henshaw's in the records:
I'm going to suggest that the Margeret/Margret baptised either on 29 December 1618 or 6 March 1618/9 was named for her sister who died the previous May 1618.
Since there seems to be only one Thomas Henshaw recorded as having children about this time in Stratford-on-Avon, I suggest that the two Margerets recorded in Dec 1618 and March 1618/9 are one and the same but recorded twice, perhaps with one date the birth date and one the baptism date. If this is accurate, then she died and was buried in October 1623.
Which would leave no Margaret Hinshaw, daughter of this Thomas Henshaw, to be the Margaret Henshaw who immigrated to Virginia as wife of John Gilliam.
Most online family trees give a death date of 1624 for this Thomas Henshaw. A record of a burial in Stratford-on-Avon seems to support this date:
On 22 Oct 1581 Thomas Henshaw was wed to Jone Garlick in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire at the Holy Trinity Church.[6]
Who was Thomas Henshaw, Immigrant to Virginia Colony?
This is not the Thomas Henshaw who invested in The Virginia Company or London. He is also not the Thomas Henshaw who was living in Otterdam, Warwick River County by 1638. These sources may apply to Thomas Henshaw of Basset's Fee and Benton-Place, in Shipley, son of William Henshaw of County Sussex, who married 1st Jane Wistow, daughter of Richard Wistow of London, and 2nd Katherine, daughter of Walter Gower of Worcester. Or to his son Thomas Henshaw who was living in Billinghurst, County Sussex in 1634. More research needs to be done to identify the Virginia Thomas Henshaw.
Thomas Hinshaw is named as an Adventurer or Planter in The Second Charter of Virginia; May 23, 1609. [7]
On 18 July 1620 Thomas Henshaw is included in a list of Adventurers with the Virginia Company. This is an alphabetical list of all Adventurers, whether they actually went to Virginia or only invested in the Company, together with the amounts paid in. Thomas Henshaw is listed as having paid in ₤75. He has been listed twice, once as Thomas Henshawe and once as Thomas Henshaw, both listed as having paid the same amount. There are notes in the records that the lists were created more than once, at different times.[8]
A Thomas Henshawe is mentioned in a grant of land to Capt. William Brocas, Esqr., dated 12 April 1638. The land is described as "belonging to the Mills in the E. side, runing to the head of the Otterdams..."[9] The naming of "Otterdam" has generally been taken to refer to a location in Surry County, but Surry County did not exist in 1638. Further research reveals that the land referred to was in Warwick River County formed in 1634. The land was near "the Mills" on the headwaters of the Warwick River.
On 20 June 1646 Joseph Croshawe was granted 700 acres in Charles River County for transport of 14 persons, including Tho. Hinshaw.[9] This land adjoined Warwick River County. It has been suggested that the headright for Tho. Hinshaw was originally given to William Brocas and later transferred to Joseph Croshawe.[10]
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