Thomas Kellogg (abt. 1520 - abt. 1575)

Born about 1520 in Debden, Essex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Florence (Byrd) Kellogg — married [date unknown] in ,Essex, England.

Husband of Ellen (Unknown) Stebbing — married 1559 in Essex, England

Descendants

Died about 1575 at about age 55 in Essex, England

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Biography

Thomas Kellogg was the son of Florence HALL and Nicholas KELLOGG of Debden, Essex.

Little is known with certainty about Thomas Kellogg, most of it in Timothy Hopkins' The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, pages 8-11. His date of birth can be estimated at around 1520. His parents were married in about 1515 and Thomas was a younger son of William. ^[1]

In 1558 Thomas Kellogg was one of the witnesses to the will of his presumed father, Nicholas Kellogg, though the relationship is not specified.^[2]

In the manorial court on 12 May 1568, Thomas surrendered to William Kellogg two acres in Wymonds in Debden.

At the Manorial Court of Debden in 1571, he succeeded his mother in possession of the tenement and land called Mondes as appears in the Manorial Court record as follows: "Whereas Florence Kellogge, widow, late wife of Nicholas Kellogge, deceased, held for term of her life, a customary tenement with a house thereon and 10 acres of customary land formerly called Webbs and now called Mondes with a pightel planted with osiers etc., reversion therof after her death to Thomas Kellogge and his heirs as appears by the rool of 5 Edward VI [A.D. 1551]. Now comes the said Thomas and prays to be admitted in reversion and he is so admitted." (Hopkins, page 9)

Philippe or Philip Kellogg "probably son of Thomas" first appears in Bocking, Essex, in 1583, and in Great Leighs in 1585. These are both near Braintree and about 15 miles from Debden. As Hopkins notes, "There is a missing link in the chain of documentary evidence connecting the families of Bocking, Great Leighs and Debden. (Hopkins, page 11).

From Find a Grave:

He was married twice:

1. Wife 1: Juliana Westley, married in 1550.
2. Wife 2: Ellen, last name unknown, married in 1559 in Essex Co.

His known child with Ellen:

1. Phillip/Phillipe Kellogg b. 1560 d. 1583.^[3]

Research notes

There were two Thomas Kelloggs. This Thomas is found in Debden in 1558, 1568 and 1571. Another Thomas Kellogg is found around Braintree in the 1560s. Thomas Kellogg and his wife Marion were plaintiffs in Kings/Queens Bench in 1556.^[4]

Thomas Kellogg and his wife Marion were engaged in a land transaction by final concord in 1560: Easter & Michaelmas. Christopher Sumner, plaintiff. Thomas Kelloge & wife Marion, deforciants. 1messuage,1 curtilage, 20 acres arable, 10 acres meadow, &: 16 acres pasture in Ulting, Hatfeld Peverell & Boreham. £80.^[5]

And in 1561: John Pyke, plaintiff, and Thomas Kellogge alias Kellocke & wife Marion, deforciants. 2 messuages, 2 barns, 2 stables, 2 gardens & 2 orchards in Malden £40. ^[6]

Ulting, Hatfield Peverell and Boreham are about 7 or 8 miles south of Braintree and 5 miles from Great Leighs. Maldon is 3 to 5 miles from Ulting and Hatfield Peverell.

In Find a Grave, the supposed mother of Philip Kellogg is: "Wife 2: Unknown wife, married about 1559 in Essex Co. Listed as "Ellen" in some genealogies but parish records do not identify her."^[7]

It is possible that a Kellogg family had been living in the Bocking/Braintree area all along. In 1446 John Kylhogge, of Bokkyng, husbandman, was a defendant for debt in Common Pleas. ^[8]

Source

1. ↑ https://archive.org/details/kelloggsinoldwor01hopk/page/8/mode/2up?view=theater
2. ↑ https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/result_details.aspx?ThisRecordsOffSet=2&id=491241
3. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41104293 Find A Grave
4. ↑ http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/M/KB27no1177/bKB27no1177dorses/IMG_0070.htm
5. ↑ page 81 https://www.esah1852.org.uk/library/files/F1500000.pdf
6. ↑ page 90 https://www.esah1852.org.uk/library/files/F1500000.pdf
7. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41104293/thomas-kellogg
8. ↑ http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no742/bCP40no742dorses/IMG_1460.htm

• Find A Grave
• N. Grier Parke II, "The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth."
• Hopkins, Timothy; The Kellogg’s in the Old World and the New, Volume 1. San Francisco: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Company, 1903.
• Find a Grave: Thomas Kellogg
• Kellogg Family History
• "The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New" three volumes by Timothy Hopkins, 1903. The Millennium File (birth and death dates)

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Ellen Blackwell for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Ellen and others.
• WikiTree profile Kellogg-228 created through the import of BDM7-7-11.ged on Jul 8, 2011 by Brian McCullough.