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Thomas MEAKINS

Thomas MEAKINS

Male Abt 1609 - 1687  (~ 78 years)

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  • Name Thomas MEAKINS  [1, 2] 
    Birth Abt 1609  Thorpe Achurch, , Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 3DEB22A3681E4819B5FD1A49A06C358EB8EB 
    Immigration 1633  Boston, , Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    Religion 30 Mar 1634  Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6] 
    Public Record 25 May 1636  , , Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7] 
    Occupation Abt 1645-1687  Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Death 10 Dec 1687  Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 9, 10] 
    Person ID I3496  Our Family Tree
    Last Modified 25 Sep 2023 

    Father Thomas MEAKINS,   b. Abt 1589, Oundle, , Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1641 and 1651, Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 52 years) 
    Mother Katherine GREENE,   b. Abt 1594, Thorpe Achurch, , Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Feb 1650/51, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 57 years) 
    Marriage 27 Jan 1607/08  Thorpe Achurch, , Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F763  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sarah BELL,   b. Abt 1613, Bury St. Edmunds, , Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jan 1650/51, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 38 years) 
    Marriage Bef 5 May 1639  Boston, , Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 11] 
    Children 
     1. Joseph MEAKINS,   b. 5 May 1639, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Sarah MEAKINS,   b. 24 Apr 1641, Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Thomas MEAKINS,   b. 8 Jun 1643, Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Oct 1675, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years)
    +4. Mary MEAKINS,   b. Abt 1645, Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     5. Hannah MEAKINS,   b. Abt 1647, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Dec 1688, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 41 years)
     6. John MEAKINS,   c. 28 Jan 1648/49, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 May 1649, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 0 years)
    Family ID F811  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 May 2022 

    Family 2 Elizabeth TULSTON,   b. Abt 1630   d. 1683 (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Marriage 14 Feb 1650/51  Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 12, 13] 
    Family ID F1919  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 May 2022 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1609 - Thorpe Achurch, , Northamptonshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsImmigration - with his wife's brother Thomas Bell - 1633 - Boston, , Massachusetts, Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsReligion - Admitted to Boston Church - 30 Mar 1634 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsPublic Record - Made freeman - 25 May 1636 - , , Massachusetts, Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Bef 5 May 1639 - Boston, , Massachusetts, Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 14 Feb 1650/51 - Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Miller and Millwright - Abt 1645-1687 - Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 10 Dec 1687 - Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, Link to Google Earth
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  • Reference  Gayle Leighton Nowell, Rooted in New England, Our Family Tree (https://nowellfamily.org/genealogy/tng/getperson.php?personID=I3496&tree=tree1: accessed 5 April 2025), "Thomas MEAKINS."

  • Sources 
    1. [S1036] James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Digital images. 4. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), (https://catalog.hathitrust.org: 2016), 1: 41-42. accessed 17 Oct 2012.

    2. [S2523] "Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N. E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III," database with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors , ((https://www.americanancestors.org : 2010)), accessed 13 May 2021), Thomas Meakins sketch; citing Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 2: 1246-1247.

    3. [S1685] "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-," database with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors , ((https://www.americanancestors.org : 2001-2018)), accessed 3 May 2022), Leslie Mahler, "The English Origins of Edmund1 Quincy of Boston and His Servants Thomas and Katherine (Greene) Meakins," Register 157 (2003):31-33; Parish registers of Thorpe Achurch, Northamptonshire, 1591-1662 [FHL fiche 6,129,050].

    4. [S1685] "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-," database with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors , ((https://www.americanancestors.org : 2001-2018)), accessed 3 May 2022), Clifford L. Stott, "The English Ancestry of Thomas1 Bell and His Sister Sarah (Bell) Meakins, Wife of Thomas2 Meakins of Roxbury, Massachusetts," Register 175 (2021):225-232.

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    7. [S1685] "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-," database with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors , ((https://www.americanancestors.org : 2001-2018)), accessed 3 May 2022), Leslie Mahler, "The English Origins of Edmund1 Quincy of Boston and His Servants Thomas and Katherine (Greene) Meakins," Register 157 (2003):31-33; Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Govenor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, 5 vols. in 6 (Boston, 1853-54), 1:372.

    8. [S1685] "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-," database with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors , ((https://www.americanancestors.org : 2001-2018)), accessed 3 May 2022), Clifford L. Stott, "The English Ancestry of Thomas1 Bell and His Sister Sarah (Bell) Meakins, Wife of Thomas2 Meakins of Roxbury, Massachusetts," Register 175 (2021):225-232; Suffolk Deeds, 14 vols. (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1880–1905), 3:149; Daniel White Wellsand Reuben Field Wells, A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts (Springfield, Mass.: F.C.H. Gibbons, 1910), 46, 47.

    9. [S1036] James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Digital images. 4. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), (https://catalog.hathitrust.org: 2016), 3: 191-192. accessed 17 Oct 2012.

    10. [S1685] "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-," database with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors , ((https://www.americanancestors.org : 2001-2018)), accessed 3 May 2022), Clifford L. Stott, "The English Ancestry of Thomas1 Bell and His Sister Sarah (Bell) Meakins, Wife of Thomas2 Meakins of Roxbury, Massachusetts," Register 175 (2021):225-232; “Births, Marriages, and Deaths [Hampshire] County Court,” Hatfield deaths, 110v [FHL 0,760,648]).

    11. [S1685] "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-," database with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors , ((https://www.americanancestors.org : 2001-2018)), accessed 3 May 2022), Leslie Mahler, "The English Origins of Edmund1 Quincy of Boston and His Servants Thomas and Katherine (Greene) Meakins," Register 157 (2003):31-33; Richard D. Pierce, ed., The Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630-1868, 3 vols [Vols. 39-41, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts (Boston, 1961)], 1:284.

    12. [S1015] "New England Marriages to 1700," database with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors , ((https://www.americanancestors.org : 2008)), accessed 16 Feb 2013), MEAKINS, Thomas2 (-1687) & 2/wf Elizabeth TULSTON (-1683); citing New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 Vols., (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 2:1023.

    13. [S1685] "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-," database with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors , ((https://www.americanancestors.org : 2001-2018)), accessed 3 May 2022), Clifford L. Stott, "The English Ancestry of Thomas1 Bell and His Sister Sarah (Bell) Meakins, Wife of Thomas2 Meakins of Roxbury, Massachusetts," Register 175 (2021):225-232; Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, 2 vols. [Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute,1925–1926], 2:277.