Thomas Thistle Tisdale Esq. (abt. 1596 - 1651)

Born about 1596 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Barbara Ruth (Draper) Tisdale — married 5 Mar 1613 in London, England

Died 28 Mar 1651 at about age 55 in Gray's Inn, St. Andrew, Holborne, Middlesex, England

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Biography

Murdered (Throat Cut) by William and Mary Ardington. Thomas Tisdale, Esq., was an under-treasurer of Grayes Inn who was murdered in his chamber in the night was bur[ied] the 29th of March 1651.

"28 March, 1651.—True Bill that, at Graye's Inn in the parish of St. Andrew in Holborne co. Midd. on the said day, William Ardington yeoman and his wife Mary Ardington, both late of the said parish, assaulted Thomas Tisdale esq., and that Mary Ardington with a knife cut the neck and throat of the said Thomas Tisdale esq., so that he then and there died instantly, being thus murdered by the said William and Mary Ardington. Over the name of each culprit, at the bill's head, appears this clerical minute, "Puse guilty noe goodes therefore to be hanged by the neck untill &c." G. D. R., . . . ., 1655/6."^[1]

Research Notes

Alternate birth places Abbotsbury, Dorset, England or Ripon, Yorkshire, England

Sources

1. ↑ British History Online Middlesex Sessions Rolls: 1651, Pages 200-207

• https://www.british-history.ac.uk/middx-county-records/vol3/pp200-207#p11