Thomas Stubbs & Mary Minor
Family
Eldersfield, Worcester,
England
Thomas Stubbs was baptized at St. John the Baptist
Church in Eldersfield, Worcester, England on April 15, 1692. His
father Daniel Stubbs and mother Mary Niest were married there
on April 12, 1687.
Thomas Stubbs
Ancestors
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St. John the Baptist Church, Eldersfield
"Eldersfield presently consists of a church and a few farmsteads.
It is located in an agricultural area of beautiful rolling green
fields and pastures. The oldest parts of the church date to the
12th century and the tower and spire were built in the 14th century.
In 1624 the Eldersfield Manor came into the hands of Sir Henry
Spiller, Baronet. Sir Henry was an ardent Royalist and he fell
into the hands of the Parliamentarian Army in 1646, near the end
of the Civil War. He was heavily fined and was still struggling
to pay off this debt when he died . William (2) Stubbs was in
the Royalist army and perhaps also suffered consequences when
the Parliamentarians prevailed. In the year 1728 there were 65
funerals at the church. This was at a time when the population
of Eldersfield was about six or seven hundred. This may indicate
that some epidemic swept through the area. Recently, a number
of medieval cottages have been found in fields near the church,
showing that there were once many more houses than there are currently
in Eldersfield. There are stories of a plague pit nearby, so it
is possible that Eldersfield was largely deserted at the time
of the Black Death in the 14th century. Thus, the church became
relatively isolated as it is today." (From a pamphlet at the church)
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According to Thomas' grandson William
Penn Attmore, "He {grandfather Thomas} was born in Worcestershire,
in England, within 12 miles of the city of Worcester, between
Malvern Hill and Clauslawn {Corse Lawn}. Those are 12 miles apart,
a little way from the Severn River. He was about 20 or 21 years
old when he came over to America. He took shipping at Bristol
at a time when there was a cessation of arms in Queen Anne's Wars,
in the ship Bristol Merchant, of sixteen guns mounted and had
others not mounted. He had hired to work at Bristol about a year."
Descendants
of Thomas and Mary Stubbs
Thomas Stubbs Will
Thomas Stubbs Property/Residences
Thomas Stubbs and Mary Minor were married at the Kennett Quaker
Meeting house pictured below in Pennsylvania in 1720.
Chester County, Pennsylvania
Kennet Meeting House
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Thomas Stubbs House Pennsylvania
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Information and photos supplied by many kind Stubbs researchers.
Related sites and pages:
- Henry Stubbs of Minnetonka family
descendant
of Thomas and Mary Stubbs who moved to Minnesota in 1856.
- Wrightsborough Quaker Settlement (link to come) Several of Thomas and Mary's children migrated
to this settlement in the years before the American Revolution.
Contains information on Wrightsborough, including transcription
of notes by Roger Avery Stubbs.
- S. Shaw Tatounova's Homepage
Maddock, Quaker settlement in Wrightsborough, Georgia,
Southern Quakers
- Maddock Family Website
by Jill Carter Knuth. Thomas' son John married Esther Maddock. Jill Carter
Knuth is also the compiler of the Stubbs
Index of descendants of Thomas Stubbs & Mary Minor