No new info today, but we did discover an amazing ancestor in our pedigree chart. Trace the Cutler line back 5 greats and you get to Christopher Cutler, whose mother was Hannah Shephard. Her grandfather Ralph Shephard was married to Thank ye the Lord, who was born 30 March 1609 in Northampton, England.
Other records indicate her name as Thanks, Thankful, etc. but her last name really was Lord. She passed the name to one of her daughters, and there are 4 generations of Thanks or Thankfuls.
Note that Thanks Lord named one of her other daughters Trial, a name that also continued for a few generations.
She died in 1693 in Massachusetts, and is buried in Old Rock Cemetery of Middlesex MA.
I am not sure how the move to America went for them. Her parents died in Connecticut, and her grandchildren were born back in England, not returning to the New World until John Cutler joined the restored church and moved his family to Utah. (He died in Salt Lake City in 1894 at age 79).
Thank ye the Lord's son Ralph Shephard (Jr.) has some potentially conflicting information: Born in Massachusetts in Nov 1659, he was christened in England 3 1/2 years later. Likewise, he supposedly died in Massachusetts in 1723, but was buried in England (just over a month later). Since his wife and children were born in England (in Stubley of Derbys), I suspect he returned from the colonies, meaning the family only spent one generation in America.
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Hi, my name's Natasha. I've been doing a lot of genealogical research lately and I too am a descendant of Thank Ye The Lord(through her daughter Trial). I'm pretty sure you've got her death date wrong - she'd have been almost 300 years old by then! ;)
What I've found on her says she died anywhere from 1666 to 1693.
I'm trying to learn more about my Lord ancestors, and I seem to have reached an impasse with "Richard Lord" (1555-1610). If you have other information on the Lord family at all I'd be so grateful if you could share it with me!
Thanks,
Natasha
mortiferia@yahoo.com
P.S. I just found Thomas Lord(Thankful's father)'s grave:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11290361
Thanks, Natasha. I'll fix that death date :)
I haven't done any personal research on that line, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of what I've got--but I'll send you the information I have.
Natasha: I'll email this to you as well, but I'm posting it here so I have it for my own records:
According to the pedigree charts I have (pooled family trees from known and unknown relatives), Richard's father was either William Lord (1528-) or Ronald Lord (1505-). I don't have a mother's name, but she was supposedly born sometime between 1530 and 1536.
As far as Richard's wife Jeane, the link from Thomas' info on findagrave.com is better info than anything I have.
I can't find Old Rock Cemetery anywhere (meaning anywhere on the Internet: I haven't tried walking around Middlesex yet). The only place it turns up is on other family history sites, leading me to believe that it maybe exists only in old records and not in modern labeling systems. Any ideas? Middlesex isn't that far from me, so I'd kind of like to go look.
"Old Rock Cemetery" is actually called "Bell Rock Cemetery" and is in Malden, Middlesex.
Looks like Thank Ye has been unattached from our family in Family Search
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