Family of Edward Southworth

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1.  EDWARD6 SOUTHWORTH  (THOMAS5, JOHN4, THOMAS3 DE SOUTHWORTH, JOHN2, CHRISTOPHER1)1 was born Abt. 1590, and died Abt. 1621.  He married ALICE CARPENTER1 May 28, 1613 in Leyden, Holland2, daughter of ALEXANDER CARPENTER.  She was born Abt. 1590, and died March 26, 1670 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

 

Notes for EDWARD SOUTHWORTH:

Under the date November 19, 1938, Mrs. Mary J. Sibley, Genealogist, wrote to the Blackburn Grammar School at Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The gist of her letter is as follows: -

 

"I have examined the records of the Blackburn Grammar School, by George Alfred Stocks, published in 1909 in the Chetham Society Publication. Stocks does not list the pupils, but in the introduction he states - 'We learn names of the five who fled beyond the seas because of their complicity in the Counter-Reformation.' He does not name them. Will you kindly have someone examine your records prior to 1629 and send me what data you have, especially of Edward Southworth and his brother Thomas Southworth, and also, the two sons of Edward Southworth, Constant and Thomas - if they attended the school."

 

"In 1893 a local antiquarian, Mister Joseph Baron of Blackburn, to Mister Horatius W. Southworth, of the Springfield, Massachusetts Southworth, that Edward of Samlesbury went to Leyden, Holland; but did not name his authority. I am trying to find proof of this identity. Every item will be valuable. In 1602 Edward and his brothers, including Thomas, were still in the neighborhood of Samlesbury for they were all listed as foreign burgesses with their father in the Preston (Lancashire) Guild Roll of that year. They were all mentioned by their grandfather, Sir John Southworth, in his will dated September 17, 1593. Sir John died November 3, the same year."

 

"In 1622, William and Christopher, brothers of Edward Southworth of Samlesbury, were still on the rolls of the Preston, Lancashire Guild, but Thomas and Edward were omitted, indicating they were dead. William is given at the time of his grandfather's death (1595) as of Holcroft, Lancashire."

 

"The first authentic record of Edward Southworth at Leyden, Holland was on November 13, 1610, as a witness at a betrothal, which would suggest that he was then of age, and he married Alice Carpenter at Leyden, May 28, 1613, with his brother, Thomas, as his attendant, the record of which states that Edward was from England."

 

"A preserved letter shows that Edward Southworth, previously of Leyden, Holland was living at Heneage House, Duke's Place, Aldgate Ward, London, in 1620. He must have died in 1620, or early 1621 for his nephew stated at the time of his widow's death, in an ode in her honor, that he died young."

 

"I mean good Edward Southworth, who not long

Continued in this world the saints among.

With him she lived seven years a wife,

Till death put a period to his life,"

 

Alice, his widow, came to Plymouth, Massachusetts on the ship Anne in 1623, and in August that year married Governor William Bradford. Edward's sons, Constant (born 1614) and Thomas (born 1616) remained in England till 1628-9, presumably to be educated. If they were pupils in Blackburn Grammar School the information would be important. Both Sir John Southworth (died 1595) and his eldest son and heir, Thomas Southworth, Esquire were Governors and contributors to the school; therefore entitled to have their sons educated there." (End of letter to Blackburn Grammar School.]

 

Since the arms brought to Plymouth by Edward's widow had a sable field and since the Samlesbury Southworths bore the same and were the only Southworths in England who did - and the heir male had used crosses patonce, flory and crosslet, it seems conclusive that Edward of Samlesbury and Edward of Leyden were identical.

Mrs. Mary J. Sibley

 

 

 

More About EDWARD SOUTHWORTH:

Residence: Bef. 1613, Leyden, England

 

Notes for ALICE CARPENTER:

"Mistris Alice"

Heer lyes the shadow of a blessed mother

In Israel, well knowne to one and other

Of good decent, of holy predecessors;

Her father equall was to the confessors

And holy matires, suffered for Christ’s sake,

Altho hee suffered not at fiery stake,

And shee with him and other in her youth

Left there owne native country for the truth,

And in successe of time she marryed was

To one whose grace and vertue did surpasse,

I mean  good Edward Southworth, who not long

Continued in this world the Saints amonge.

With him she lived seven years a wife

Till death did put a period to his life.

 

 

More About EDWARD SOUTHWORTH and ALICE CARPENTER:

Marriage: May 28, 1613, Leyden, Holland2

     

Children of EDWARD SOUTHWORTH and ALICE CARPENTER are:

              i.   ENSIGN CONSTANT SOUTHWORTH 3,4, b. 1614, Leyden, Holland5; d. March 10, 1678/79, Duxbury, Plymouth, MA; m. ELIZABETH COLLIER6, November 02, 1637, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts7; b. Abt. 1616, London, England.

 

              ii.   CAPT. THOMAS SOUTHWORTH7, b. Abt. 1616, Leyden, Holland; d. December 08, 1669; m. ELIZABETH REYNOR7,8, September 16419.

 

More About THOMAS SOUTHWORTH and ELIZABETH REYNOR:

Marriage: September 16419

 

 

 

Endnotes

 

1.  Hills, Leon Clark, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters,  (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore 1977).

2.  Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr., Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists,  (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore 1976, fifth edition), page 13.

3.  Hills, Leon Clark, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters,  (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore 1977).

4.  Wheeler, W. A., Alden-Shedd Families - Part II.

5.  Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr., Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists,  (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore 1976, fifth edition), page 13.

6.  Wheeler, W. A., Alden-Shedd Families - Part II.

7.  Hills, Leon Clark, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters,  (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore 1977).

8.  Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr., Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists,  (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore 1976, fifth edition), page 13, Shown as "Elizabeth Raynor."

9.  Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr., Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists,  (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore 1976, fifth edition), page 13.