to Margaret with appropriately aged children in the area of Boxford. Branchpeth and Boxford are about 250 miles apart making it unusual that this is the same Thomas m. This Thomas is not proven to be the immigrant to New England - A Thomas Low, son of Giles, was baptized, Brancepeth, Durham, England. This Thomas, possibly with a Firmin family connection, would be the wrong age to be the Thomas that came to Ipswich, Mass. However, records of Lamarsh/Essex (not too far from Sudbury/Suffolk) include the marriage of a Giles Lowe with a Cecily Maynard (and possibly related to Margaret Firmin's kinsman Henry Maynard) as well as the birth of a son Thomas Lowe on. Many researchers have assumed this meant Cecily was a Firmin. An extract of the will of Margret Firmin of St Peters parish Sudbury is given on p.37, "Kinswoman Cicely wife of Giles Lowe. These were published, with his permission, in "Essex Institute Historical Collections". Somerby of extracts of parish registers of All Saints, Sudbury. In 1871 he included "Additional Facts" in "NEHGR" He describes communications from a Mr. In 1866 John Ward Dean wrote a memoir of Rev Giles Firmin (1614-1697) published in "New England Historical and Genealogical Register". Redstone, researcher in England for William Gilman Low, was unable to find a record of this couple in Boxford.However, a similar couple can be located nearby. There are multiple theories about his origins: Source: The Ancestors of the John Lowe Family Circle and their descendants. Sarah born 1637, if deposition of father in 1660 is correct married Joseph Safford. John bp 2 March 1633, Boxford, Suffolk, England married first December 10, 1661, Susan Thorndike, daughter of John and Elizabeth Thorndike, of Beverly married second Dorcas _.,.Margaret bp 17 June 1632, Boxford, Suffolk, England married April 8, 1657, Daniel Davidson who was afterward a major general died July 8, 1668.Thomas Lowe was born in England abt 1631-2: died Apmarried first on July 4, 1660, Martha Borman, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Borman of Ipswich he married second Mary Brown. Thomas, bp, Groton, Suffolk, England, Groton is 3.5 miles north west of Polstead (marriage plasce) and 3/4 mile from Boxford.(note by birth location/years, would all be the children of Margaret Todd). His widow Susannah died at Watertown, Massachusetts on Augaged about eighty six. Thomas married second, the widow Susannah (Stone/Cuttinge) Kimball. He married first Margaret Todd at Polstead, Suffolk, England on June 22, 1630. To his son Thomas, who married Martha Boreman, (daughter of Thomas of Ipswich), he gave 40 S, and to his grandchild, Thomas Low, who moved to Gloucester and married Sarah Symonds, daughter of Harlakenden, granddaughter of Governor Samuel Symonds, and became the ancestor of almost all the Low families there since. 175-177, PB-17242) was written Apand was probated November 6th of that year, in which he left most of his estate to his son John, who married Sarah, daughter of John Thorndike of Beverly. His will (Probate Records of Essex County, Vol III, Pp. He appears to have died at his homestead in Candlewood, South Ipswich where his son John resided, and was most likely buried at the Old North Churchyard at Ipswich, MA, although there is no record of his burial. (see publications of the Ipswich Historical Society, 1909, Vol. and later by Samuel Symonds, whose daughter Sarah Symonds married Thomas Low. The Candlewood section north of the Essex Road included the residences of John Brown, Humphrey Griffin, Nathaniel Rogers, Edward Bragg, Elisha and Benjamin Brown, John Choate, Deacon Mathew Whipple, and Agrilla Farm, owned originally by John Winthrop, Jr. The homestead was located on the east side of Heartbreak Road, which went north from the Essex Road (now Route 133). Toward the end of his life, he appears to have been residing at "Candlewood, an Ancient Neighborhood" in Ipswich, known as "The South Eighth". On April 6, 1641, Thomas Low had 10 acres of land assigned to him in Chebacco, "next to his ten acres there." The Low family of Essex must be considered the second oldest family of the town. "He was a maltster, and died September 8, 1677, when his son John succeeded to the business and continued it until 1696." Settled in Chebacco Parish, Essex Co., Mass, 1641, before which time two at least of his 5 children were born. Thomas Low and his family probably arrived at Ipswich in 1637. The Rogers party sailed from Gravesend, England, on June 1, 1636, and arrived in Massachusetts Bay (probably Charlestown) November 17, 1636. He and his family came to New England with the Rogers' party. May be the Thomas Low listed as a first settler of Ipswich in 1643 Notes Children: Margaret Low, Thomas Low, John Low, Sarah Low.Wife:đ) Margaret Todd 2) Susannah Stone, widow of Henry Kimball.Death:Ĝhebacco, Ipswich, Massachusetts.Birth: about 1605 - Boxford, Suffolk, England.
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