Elizabeth French

• Preferred Name: Elizabeth French^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Alternate Name: Elizabeth French Loker
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: 9W4C-KQT
  
• Christening: 27 February 1586 or 1587 in Assington, Suffolk, England at LATI: N2.0066 LONG: E0.8191 with note: Standardized Bishop's Transcripts, Parish of Assington, Suffolk, England -- transcribed in New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol 142, p251. "Chr 27 Feb 1586/1587 at Assington - Elizabeth FRENCH, daughter of Jacob"
  
• Death: 18 MAR 1648 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.3833 LONG: E71.4167 with note: Std.
  
• Birth: 1586 in Assington, Suffolk, England at LATI: N2.0066 LONG: E0.8191 with note: Based on christening record.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-387620
  Disputed Origins
  She has been claimed by internet trees including Royal Titled Ancestors to be born 19 JUN 1580 Bures St Mary, daughter of Jacob French and Susan Warren. A 1989 article, which published research of English parish records, found no maiden name for her.[1]
  The Elizabeth French bpt 19 June 1580, was in Knoddishall, Suffolk, England, (claimed to be Bures St. Mary). She was d/o Robert and Alice[2]
  A 1989 article by Douglas Richardson, examined the registers in Bury St. Edmunds, without finding a surname for Elizabeth. A likely guess is that she and Bridget, wife of John Parmenter, may be sisters. There were two sets of sisters "Elizabeth and Bridget" bpt at Bury St. Edmunds in the correct time frame: Daughters of William Perry, Elizabeth bpt 1586/7 and Bridget bpt 1593 and daughters of John Simpson Bridget bpt 1585/6 and Elizabeth bpt 1588.[1]
  Biography
  Elizabeth ____ was born about 1580. She passed away in 1648.
  
  After her husband Henry Loker died, she emigrated with her four children to New England about 1639, settling in Sudbury, Massachusetts where she died May 18, 1648. [1] [3]
  
  Children:[1]
  
  Henry Loker b. by 1610, was named as co-executor of his father's will in 1631; d. Sudbury, Mass 14 Oct 1688 m. Hannah ____ widow of John Brewer.
  John Loker d. 18 June 1653, Sudbury; m. c 1650 Mary Draper
  Bridget Loker, elder daughter, d. at Marlborough, Massachusetts 11 Mar 1685 m. (1) Robert Davis; m. (2)Thomas King
  Anne/Hannah Loker d. at Marlborough 5 Dec 1697; m. Richard Newton.
  Sources
  ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Richardson, Douglas. "The Riddlesdale alias Loker Family of Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England and Sudbury, Massachusetts.," in NEHGS Register, volume 143 (1989), pp 325-331. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11712/329/235396739 pp 329, 330 at AmericanAncestors ($)
  ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5G4-CWT : 11 February 2018, Elizabeth French, 19 Jun 1580); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 942.64 K1 V26W.
  ↑ Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, NEHGR, Boston, Massachusetts, 1903 p. 314
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  Sharon's Notes
  NEHGS REGISTER 1989 p 329
  A likely guess is that Elizabeth was a sister of Bridget, wife of John Parmenter of Bures, St Mary and later New England; the Lokers and Parmenters came to New England in the
  
  === !Arch rec Eunice E. Nelson; Am Pub H V63 ===
  !Arch rec Eunice E. Nelson; Am Pub H V63, 64 p281
  
  === !DEATH:Vital Records of SUDBURY to 1850 ===
  !DEATH:Vital Records of SUDBURY to 1850; Pg314. !SPOUSE: MARRIAGE: DEATH: Book-New England Marriages Prior to 1700; Clarence Almon Torrey;1985; Page 470. ! SPOUSE: MARRIAGE: CHILDREN: DEATH: English Origins of New England Families; New England Historical and Genealogical Register: 1984: Vol 1,Pg 40.
  
  === !Parish Registers. Probate Records at Bu ===
  !Parish Registers. Probate Records at Bures St. Edmunds. T.A.G. 55. N.E.H.G.S. 143:325-331. "Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins," by John Brooks Threlfall. Went to Sudbury, Massachusetts, with her children, in 1639, after her husband's death. Information sent by Janice M. Hill, 147 Maine St., Silverton, New Jersey, 201-255-2540. The American Genalogist. Planters of the Commonwealth. "Newton Genealogy," by Ermina Newton Leonard.
  
  === Disputed Origins ===
  
  She has been claimed by internet trees including Royal Titled Ancestors to be born 19 JUN 1580 Bures St Mary, daughter of Jacob French and Susan Warren. A 1989 article, which published research of English parish records, found no maiden name for her.[1]
  The Elizabeth French bpt 19 June 1580, was in Knoddishall, Suffolk, England, (claimed to be Bures St. Mary). She was d/o Robert and Alice[2]
  A 1989 article by Douglas Richardson, examined the registers in Bury St. Edmunds, without finding a surname for Elizabeth. A likely guess is that she and Bridget, wife of John Parmenter, may be sisters. There were two sets of sisters "Elizabeth and Bridget" bpt at Bury St. Edmunds in the correct time frame: Daughters of William Perry, Elizabeth bpt 1586/7 and Bridget bpt 1593 and daughters of John Simpson Bridget bpt 1585/6 and Elizabeth bpt 1588.[1]
  
  === sources from previous contributor ===
  SUDBURY VITAL RECORDS
  MASSACHUSETTS PIONEERS: 1900, POPE, P. 290
  DEATH DATE: ALSO RECORDED AS 3 MAR 1658
  
  === !Will of Henrie Loker NEHGR She and her ===
  !Will of Henrie Loker NEHGR She and her four children settled in Sudbury, MA.
  
  === !BIRTH: Record of birth is on P 2 of the ===
  !BIRTH: Record of birth is on P 2 of the book "The Descendants of Thomas French of Ipswich, MA.", the book is published by the French Family Association and records are from Chart #1.
  
  === ! BAPTISM: From Assington Bishop's Trans ===
  ! BAPTISM: From Assington Bishop's Transcripts. ! DEATH: 18 MAY 1648, Vital Records of Shrewsbury, Mass. ! MIGRATION: Henry Loker's widow and four children went to New England in 1639 and settled in Sudbury, where they consistently used the surname Loker. The Lokers were closely associated with John Parmenter who also settled in Sudbury, Mass, in 1639. (See Reg. 68[1914]:271-272). ! Surname was not identified by Threlfall in his "Fifty Great Migration Colonists," pg. 321, or NEHGR 143[1989]:329-330, "Riddlesdale alias Loker."

• m. ABT 1603 in Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England

1. John Loker I, b. 1608 in Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England     d. 18 JUN 1653 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

1. Title: Ancestry: Elizabeth Loker, Death, "Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Author: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 about Elizabeth Loker
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=MATownVital&h=81363527&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=gr_t32177896_p28048046361_ktidz0q3d32177896z0q26pidz0q3d28048046361z0q26hidz0q3d34890240577z0q26dbidz0q3d2495z0q26rpidz0q3d81363527z0q26ssrcz0q3dgrz0q26pgz0q3d32799z0q252c32842z0q26pgplz0q3dtidz0q257cpidz0q257chidz0q257cdbidz0q257crpidz0q257cssrcz0q26pgpsz0q3d28048046361_h34890240577;
   Page: Relevant information
   
2. Title: Elizabeth Loker, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910" (1648)
   Author: "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9J-Z29 : 14 February 2020), Elizabeth Loker, 1648.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9J-Z29;
   
3. Title: Book: Newton Genealogy
   Author: Ermina Newton Leonard, Newton Genealogy, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical, Being a Record of the Descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts, 1638 (De Pere, Wisconsin: Bernard Ammidown Leonard, 1915), 14.
   Publication: Name: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61157/46155_b290471-00031?pid=3880822;
   
4. Title: U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
   Author: Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; Volume Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/3824/records/158083;
   Note: Name: Elizabeth Loker Gender: Female Marriage Place: England Death Year: 1648 Spouse: Henry Loker
   
5. Title: Article: "The Riddlesdale Alias Loker Family of Bures Saint Mary, Suffolk, England and Sudbury, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 143
   Author: Douglas Richardson, "The Riddlesdale Alias Loker Family of Bures Saint Mary, Suffolk, England and Sudbury, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 143 (October 1989): 329-331.
   Publication: Name: https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image?pageName=329&volumeId=11712;
   
6. Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
   Author: Place: Massachusetts; Year: 1647; Page Number: 52
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/7486/records/1454786;