William Ripley

• Preferred Name: William Ripley^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Mrs.
  
• Death: BEF 1654 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.2418 LONG: E70.8899
  
• Birth: ABT 1596 in England with note: Given she's an unknown, her birth is a logical estimate.
  
• FSID: GKNF-ZQX
  
• Notes:

  === William Ripley's First Wife is an Unknown. She was not Elizabeth OR Katherine Banks ===
  The wife of William Ripley is an UNKNOWN. She is not Elizabeth Banks, Katherine Banks (they were two DIFFERENT women) or Katherine Unknown (who had children baptized with another Wm. Ripley).
  
  Elizabeth Banks appears to marry a Wm. Ripley, as a 1618 marriage record at Moulton, Lincolnshire, states, (no image to review for errors) & as baptism records for children (1620 thru 1626) show, but there is no corresponding marriage for a Katherine BANKS, marrying a Wm. Ripley, although a Katherine (no maiden name) is mentioned in baptisms records (1629 thru 1634, at Stepney, Middlesexshire). Neither of these DIFFERENT women could be the wife of the Wm. Ripley who settled in Hingham, MA, as his children are being baptized from 1616 thru 1630 at Wymondham, Norfolkshire (105 miles away from Moulton, England & 101 miles away from Stepney, Middlesexshire).

• m. ABT 1615 in Norfolk, England

1. Sarah Ripley,     d. 29 JUN 1715 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

1. Title: Mrs. Ripley, Wife of William in, The Planters of the Commonwealth
   Author: Archive.org: Banks, Charles Edward, 1854-1931. The planters of the commonwealth; a study of the emigrants and emigration in colonial times: to which are added lists of passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the ships which brought them; their English homes, and the places of their settlement in Massachusetts. 1620-1640. By Charles Edward Banks ... Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1930.
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/plantersofcommon00bank/page/194/mode/2up;
   Note: NB There are NO primary sources which state her name, given or surname. This source, the ship manifest for the "Diligent", has William Ripley, but only "Mrs. Ripley". Page 194: "William Ripley of Wymondham, Norfolk, Hingham Mrs.Ripley Mary Ripley John Ripley Abraham Ripley Sarah Ripley"
   Page: Ship manifest of the "Diligent" showing Wm. Ripley and family, including "Mrs. Ripley".
   
2. Title: Original manuscripts of Torrey's, New England Marriages Prior to 1700
   Author: Circa 1984, Family Search, catalog link: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/290345?availability=Family%20History%20Library
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSM4-R6SG?i=1040&cat=290345;
   Note: Torrey's original summary of William Ripley, stating his first wife's name is unknown, & stating Wm. married second a widow Elizabeth Thaxter, the 29th of Sept., 1654.
   Page: Show's Wm.'s first wife's name is UNKNOWN, that she died before Wm. married his second wife.