725, 733. James

Outline

1. Robert James (d. bef. 1562) m. ____; probably Rockland St. Peter, Norfolk, Eng.
2. Thomas James (ca. 1517–1582) m. (1) 1542 Margaret Bradshaw (d. 1565); Rockland St. Peter, Norfolk, Eng.
3. Thomas James (1551–ca. 1616) m. (2) 1583 Mary Porter (d. aft. 1616); Rockland St. Peter, Little Ellingham, Norfolk, Eng.
4. Philip James (1601–1638) m. Jane ____ (ca. 1606–1689); Hingham, Mass.
5. Francis James (1628–1684) m. ca. 1656 Elizabeth Hyland (1632–aft. 1688); Hingham, Mass.
6. Thomas James (1669–1724) m. 1704 Patience (Tower) Farrow (1679–aft. 1749); Hingham, Mass.
7. Elizabeth James (1706–1768) m. 1730 Abisha Stetson (ca. 1706–ca. 1755); Hingham, Mass.

Sources

The fullest treatment of the English generations of this family is Robert Battle, The English Ancestry of Philip¹ James of Hingham, Massachusetts: With the James Ancestry of the Gilmans of Hingham, Norfolk, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177 (2023): 101-18. Marya Myers and Donald W. James Jr., A New Look at the Family of Francis and Philip James of Hingham: Immigrant Ancestors, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 151 (1997): 61-86, provides the most recent account of the American generations. [Robert Charles Anderson,] George Russell of Hingham, Great Migration Newsletter 17 (2008): 17, 18, 24, has additional coverage of the second marriage of Philip’s widow. Finally, although it does not bear on the direct line of descent shown here, Austin W. Spencer, Margaret (James) (Drew) Keen of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Her Husbands’ Mayflower Lines from Richard Warren, Mayflower Descendant 65 (2017): 11-26, extends Myers and James’s treatment of another of the daughters of Thomas and Patience (gen. 6).

Related surnames

2901, 2933. Hyland · 11601, 11729. Porter · 181, 183. Stetson · 1451, 1467. Tower

No additional information on the Bradshaw family is available at this time.