This memorial was transferred to the current maintainer on 6/23/2019, a descendant of the immigrant Thomas Lumbert. A prior merge left an erroneous biographical sketch that has been deleted. The prior merge also left below very abbreviated but slightly [annotated] bio details from a larger sketch in the original volumes of the Great Migration Begins (now called the "Great Migration Study Project") of the New England Historical Genealogical Society (the NEHGS). The present maintainer of this memorial, who has done considerable research including reading the actual Thornecombe parish church records from where Thomas came, is preparing an appropriate biographical sketch to be added when time permits.
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Thomas Lumbert (not Lombard) was baptized in Thorncombe, Dorsetshire on February 2, 1581/2. An innkeeper, he came from Thorncombe to Massachusetts Bay in May 1630 aboard the Mary & John. He first settled in Dorchester; moved to Barnstable by 1639. Died in Barnstable between 10 June 1663 (date of will) and 8 February 1664/5 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE:
(1) By 1602 _____ _____, who died between about 1608 and 1617.
(2) By 1617 _____ _____, who died sometime after 1623.
(3) By about 1635 _____ _____, possibly a sister or sister-in-law of Alice (Richards) Torrey [a suggested possibility not borne out by any credible evidence]. This wife died sometime after 1642.
(4) After 1644/5 Joyce (_____) Wallen, widow of Ralph Wallen of Plymouth; she died after 19 September 1683.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Begins.
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Of specific note, 20th century writers has inexplicably and retroactively changed the family surname of all lineal male descendants of the immigrant to Lombard without any creditable basis to do so. In addition, any name given for the purported identity of the immigrant's first three wives is a fabrication and will not be accepted by the present maintainer of this memorial.
Finally, Barnstable's Lothrop Hill Cemetery, named after Rev. John Lothrop, the first pastor of the Barnstable Congregation Church, is the oldest known cemetery in Barnstable with a defined location and associated with the original Barnstable First Church. The oldest existing gravestone in that cemetery is dated 1683 and is the oldest dated gravestone in any Barnstable cemetery . The immigrant Thomas Lumbert joined the Barnstable Church in 1643 and at his death in circa 1664-5 he was most probably interred in the Lothrop Hill cemetery. If Thomas once had a gravestone it does not now exist to mark his burial place.
I have added the photo of the monument erected in 1939 at the entrance to that cemetery in remembrance of Rev. John Lothrop. The first six lines of the inscription are:
ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF
REV. JOHN LOTHROP
1584 - 1653
AND SUCH FIRST SETTLERS WHO FILL
UNMARKED GRAVES IN THIS CEMETERY
AND AT THE "CALVES PASTURE".
In 1651, together with her stillborn child, the first wife of another of my ancestors were, according to Rev. Lothrop's church diary, the first persons buried in the "Calves Pasture." The location of where that cemetery was has never been discovered.
Don Blauvelt, 6/24/2019
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From an additional merge of 6/26/2019 adding fuller explanation of some of the initial historically facts concerning Thomas Lumbert in New England.
Thomas Lumbert was a passenger of the Mary and John that arrived from England in May 1630 independent of and ahead of the multi-vessel Winthrop Fleet. All of the passengers of the Mary and John were from Somerset, Dorset and Devon in western England, and all of them settled in Mattapan, renamed Dorchester. Thomas was one the first 24 men of Dorchester who applied to become freemen of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was admitted a freeman of Dorchester on May 18, 1631. By 1639 he was one of the first settlers of Barnstable in the Plymouth Colony, apparently there already when the Rev. John Lothrop arrived with his congregation from Scituate in the Plymouth Colony. On December 3, 1639 Thomas Lumbert was 'allowed to keepe Victualling, or an ordinary, for entertainement of passengers, and to draw wyne at Barnstable....' by the Plymouth Colony Court.
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Thomas Lumbert (not Lombard) was baptized in Thorncombe, Dorsetshire on February 2, 1581/2. An innkeeper, he came from Thorncombe to Massachusetts Bay in May 1630 aboard the Mary & John. He first settled in Dorchester; moved to Barnstable by 1639. Died in Barnstable between 10 June 1663 (date of will) and 8 February 1664/5 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE:
(1) By 1602 _____ _____, who died between about 1608 and 1617.
(2) By 1617 _____ _____, who died sometime after 1623.
(3) By about 1635 _____ _____, possibly a sister or sister-in-law of Alice (Richards) Torrey [a suggested possibility not borne out by any credible evidence]. This wife died sometime after 1642.
(4) After 1644/5 Joyce (_____) Wallen, widow of Ralph Wallen of Plymouth; she died after 19 September 1683.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Begins.
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Of specific note, 20th century writers has inexplicably and retroactively changed the family surname of all lineal male descendants of the immigrant to Lombard without any creditable basis to do so. In addition, any name given for the purported identity of the immigrant's first three wives is a fabrication and will not be accepted by the present maintainer of this memorial.
Finally, Barnstable's Lothrop Hill Cemetery, named after Rev. John Lothrop, the first pastor of the Barnstable Congregation Church, is the oldest known cemetery in Barnstable with a defined location and associated with the original Barnstable First Church. The oldest existing gravestone in that cemetery is dated 1683 and is the oldest dated gravestone in any Barnstable cemetery . The immigrant Thomas Lumbert joined the Barnstable Church in 1643 and at his death in circa 1664-5 he was most probably interred in the Lothrop Hill cemetery. If Thomas once had a gravestone it does not now exist to mark his burial place.
I have added the photo of the monument erected in 1939 at the entrance to that cemetery in remembrance of Rev. John Lothrop. The first six lines of the inscription are:
ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF
REV. JOHN LOTHROP
1584 - 1653
AND SUCH FIRST SETTLERS WHO FILL
UNMARKED GRAVES IN THIS CEMETERY
AND AT THE "CALVES PASTURE".
In 1651, together with her stillborn child, the first wife of another of my ancestors were, according to Rev. Lothrop's church diary, the first persons buried in the "Calves Pasture." The location of where that cemetery was has never been discovered.
Don Blauvelt, 6/24/2019
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From an additional merge of 6/26/2019 adding fuller explanation of some of the initial historically facts concerning Thomas Lumbert in New England.
Thomas Lumbert was a passenger of the Mary and John that arrived from England in May 1630 independent of and ahead of the multi-vessel Winthrop Fleet. All of the passengers of the Mary and John were from Somerset, Dorset and Devon in western England, and all of them settled in Mattapan, renamed Dorchester. Thomas was one the first 24 men of Dorchester who applied to become freemen of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was admitted a freeman of Dorchester on May 18, 1631. By 1639 he was one of the first settlers of Barnstable in the Plymouth Colony, apparently there already when the Rev. John Lothrop arrived with his congregation from Scituate in the Plymouth Colony. On December 3, 1639 Thomas Lumbert was 'allowed to keepe Victualling, or an ordinary, for entertainement of passengers, and to draw wyne at Barnstable....' by the Plymouth Colony Court.
This memorial was transferred to the current maintainer on 6/23/2019, a descendant of the immigrant Thomas Lumbert. A prior merge left an erroneous biographical sketch that has been deleted. The prior merge also left below very abbreviated but slightly [annotated] bio details from a larger sketch in the original volumes of the Great Migration Begins (now called the "Great Migration Study Project") of the New England Historical Genealogical Society (the NEHGS). The present maintainer of this memorial, who has done considerable research including reading the actual Thornecombe parish church records from where Thomas came, is preparing an appropriate biographical sketch to be added when time permits.
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Thomas Lumbert (not Lombard) was baptized in Thorncombe, Dorsetshire on February 2, 1581/2. An innkeeper, he came from Thorncombe to Massachusetts Bay in May 1630 aboard the Mary & John. He first settled in Dorchester; moved to Barnstable by 1639. Died in Barnstable between 10 June 1663 (date of will) and 8 February 1664/5 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE:
(1) By 1602 _____ _____, who died between about 1608 and 1617.
(2) By 1617 _____ _____, who died sometime after 1623.
(3) By about 1635 _____ _____, possibly a sister or sister-in-law of Alice (Richards) Torrey [a suggested possibility not borne out by any credible evidence]. This wife died sometime after 1642.
(4) After 1644/5 Joyce (_____) Wallen, widow of Ralph Wallen of Plymouth; she died after 19 September 1683.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Begins.
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Of specific note, 20th century writers has inexplicably and retroactively changed the family surname of all lineal male descendants of the immigrant to Lombard without any creditable basis to do so. In addition, any name given for the purported identity of the immigrant's first three wives is a fabrication and will not be accepted by the present maintainer of this memorial.
Finally, Barnstable's Lothrop Hill Cemetery, named after Rev. John Lothrop, the first pastor of the Barnstable Congregation Church, is the oldest known cemetery in Barnstable with a defined location and associated with the original Barnstable First Church. The oldest existing gravestone in that cemetery is dated 1683 and is the oldest dated gravestone in any Barnstable cemetery . The immigrant Thomas Lumbert joined the Barnstable Church in 1643 and at his death in circa 1664-5 he was most probably interred in the Lothrop Hill cemetery. If Thomas once had a gravestone it does not now exist to mark his burial place.
I have added the photo of the monument erected in 1939 at the entrance to that cemetery in remembrance of Rev. John Lothrop. The first six lines of the inscription are:
ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF
REV. JOHN LOTHROP
1584 - 1653
AND SUCH FIRST SETTLERS WHO FILL
UNMARKED GRAVES IN THIS CEMETERY
AND AT THE "CALVES PASTURE".
In 1651, together with her stillborn child, the first wife of another of my ancestors were, according to Rev. Lothrop's church diary, the first persons buried in the "Calves Pasture." The location of where that cemetery was has never been discovered.
Don Blauvelt, 6/24/2019
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From an additional merge of 6/26/2019 adding fuller explanation of some of the initial historically facts concerning Thomas Lumbert in New England.
Thomas Lumbert was a passenger of the Mary and John that arrived from England in May 1630 independent of and ahead of the multi-vessel Winthrop Fleet. All of the passengers of the Mary and John were from Somerset, Dorset and Devon in western England, and all of them settled in Mattapan, renamed Dorchester. Thomas was one the first 24 men of Dorchester who applied to become freemen of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was admitted a freeman of Dorchester on May 18, 1631. By 1639 he was one of the first settlers of Barnstable in the Plymouth Colony, apparently there already when the Rev. John Lothrop arrived with his congregation from Scituate in the Plymouth Colony. On December 3, 1639 Thomas Lumbert was 'allowed to keepe Victualling, or an ordinary, for entertainement of passengers, and to draw wyne at Barnstable....' by the Plymouth Colony Court.
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Thomas Lumbert (not Lombard) was baptized in Thorncombe, Dorsetshire on February 2, 1581/2. An innkeeper, he came from Thorncombe to Massachusetts Bay in May 1630 aboard the Mary & John. He first settled in Dorchester; moved to Barnstable by 1639. Died in Barnstable between 10 June 1663 (date of will) and 8 February 1664/5 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE:
(1) By 1602 _____ _____, who died between about 1608 and 1617.
(2) By 1617 _____ _____, who died sometime after 1623.
(3) By about 1635 _____ _____, possibly a sister or sister-in-law of Alice (Richards) Torrey [a suggested possibility not borne out by any credible evidence]. This wife died sometime after 1642.
(4) After 1644/5 Joyce (_____) Wallen, widow of Ralph Wallen of Plymouth; she died after 19 September 1683.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Begins.
-----
Of specific note, 20th century writers has inexplicably and retroactively changed the family surname of all lineal male descendants of the immigrant to Lombard without any creditable basis to do so. In addition, any name given for the purported identity of the immigrant's first three wives is a fabrication and will not be accepted by the present maintainer of this memorial.
Finally, Barnstable's Lothrop Hill Cemetery, named after Rev. John Lothrop, the first pastor of the Barnstable Congregation Church, is the oldest known cemetery in Barnstable with a defined location and associated with the original Barnstable First Church. The oldest existing gravestone in that cemetery is dated 1683 and is the oldest dated gravestone in any Barnstable cemetery . The immigrant Thomas Lumbert joined the Barnstable Church in 1643 and at his death in circa 1664-5 he was most probably interred in the Lothrop Hill cemetery. If Thomas once had a gravestone it does not now exist to mark his burial place.
I have added the photo of the monument erected in 1939 at the entrance to that cemetery in remembrance of Rev. John Lothrop. The first six lines of the inscription are:
ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF
REV. JOHN LOTHROP
1584 - 1653
AND SUCH FIRST SETTLERS WHO FILL
UNMARKED GRAVES IN THIS CEMETERY
AND AT THE "CALVES PASTURE".
In 1651, together with her stillborn child, the first wife of another of my ancestors were, according to Rev. Lothrop's church diary, the first persons buried in the "Calves Pasture." The location of where that cemetery was has never been discovered.
Don Blauvelt, 6/24/2019
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From an additional merge of 6/26/2019 adding fuller explanation of some of the initial historically facts concerning Thomas Lumbert in New England.
Thomas Lumbert was a passenger of the Mary and John that arrived from England in May 1630 independent of and ahead of the multi-vessel Winthrop Fleet. All of the passengers of the Mary and John were from Somerset, Dorset and Devon in western England, and all of them settled in Mattapan, renamed Dorchester. Thomas was one the first 24 men of Dorchester who applied to become freemen of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was admitted a freeman of Dorchester on May 18, 1631. By 1639 he was one of the first settlers of Barnstable in the Plymouth Colony, apparently there already when the Rev. John Lothrop arrived with his congregation from Scituate in the Plymouth Colony. On December 3, 1639 Thomas Lumbert was 'allowed to keepe Victualling, or an ordinary, for entertainement of passengers, and to draw wyne at Barnstable....' by the Plymouth Colony Court.
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