Category: Born Between

Theophilus Richardson

Theophilus Richardson was born on December 22, 1633, and died on December 28, 1674. He was born in Woburn, Mass and also died there. Theophilus Richardson’s life (1633–1674) spanned a formative period in early American colonial history. Born and raised in Woburn, Massachusetts, Theophilus lived during the first century of English colonization in New England. […]

Elizabeth Jane Richardson

Elizabeth Jane Richardson was the daughter of Thomas Richardson of Standon. She was baptized on January 13, 1593. She was buried on June 22, 1630. ** Source: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. She was the eldest child of Thomas Richardson and Katherine Duxford. Elizabeth Richardson is my 12th great-aunt. Elizabeth would […]

John Wesley Wegley

John Wesley Wegley was born in Charleston, West Virginia on March 5, 1923. He is the 2nd John Wesley Wegley in my family tree. This particular John Wesley is my great-uncle – my grandfather’s older brother. His father was Fredrick Wegley, and his mother was Tillie Blanch Edwards. Although John Wesley was born in West Virginia, […]

Ezekiel Richardson

Ezekiel Richardson first came to America in 1630. He has also been known as Ezechll Richeson, mostly due to the way things were written back then. He was the son of Thomas Richardson and Katherine Duxford. His exact date of birth is unknown, but it is thought to be somewhere between 1601 and 1604. He […]

Lewis Weighley

Lewis Weigley is the child of John Weigley and Elizabeth W. Croft. He is my first cousin, 5x removed. You may ask why I would care about someone not in my direct line well quite honestly, because sometimes we find documents in side branches of our family tree that help us prove the identity or […]

Stephen Richardson (Senior)

Stephen Richardson was born on February 7, 1674, in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, during the early colonial period of New England. He was the fifth child of Joseph Richardson and Hannah Green, a family deeply rooted in the community and history of Woburn. Stephen’s life spanned nearly eight decades, and he played an integral part […]

Joseph Richardson

Joseph Richardson was born on July 27, 1643, in Woburn, Massachusetts, a settlement in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the second son of Samuel Richardson, one of three Richardson brothers who emigrated from England in 1630 as part of the Puritan migration. Joseph grew up in Woburn, which was then a frontier town and […]

Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson was born in 1602 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England. He died on March 23, 1658, in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He is the son of Thomas Richardson and Catherine Duxford. We know this because Samuel was the executor of his father’s estate on July 31, 1634, in Hutchins, England. This is the Thomas Richardson that we […]

Thomas Richardson I of Westmill

So many people in my tree named Thomas Richardson. This particular one we are speaking about now was born in 1523 in Westmill, England, and he died in 1570. However, I should note there is a Millennium file document that says he died in March of 1630. But that could be his son. What I […]

Thomas Richardson II of Westmill

Thomas Richardson was born on March 15, 1543, in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England.  He died on March 4, 1630, also in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England. He is not the person known as “Sir Thomas Richardson.” He is also not the person who was buried on  December 13, 1630, at St Mary, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England.  Although […]