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Thomas Fones

Thomas Fones

Male Abt 1600 - 1629  (29 years)


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  • Name Thomas Fones  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Suffix II 
    Birth Abt 1600  London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    FSID LZLS-XJC  [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18] 
    Death 15 Apr 1629  Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Burial 10 Jul 1629  Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I45464  footsteps | Bunker, Byrd
    Last Modified 22 Jun 2025 

    Family Mary Anne Winthrop,   b. 16 Jan 1585, Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 May 1619, Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth Fones,   b. 21 Jan 1610, Suffolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Feb 1673, New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    Family ID F25089  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Jun 2025 

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  • Notes 

    • Thomas ran an apothecary at the sign of the Three Fawns on Old Bailey Street. Thomas and his family lived in the cramped town house above his apothecary shop in the Old Bailey area of London. He was well educated and relatively prosperous.

      It was probably because he was a Puritan that he refused a knighthood to the King who had married a Roman Catholic. “Bromsgrove gentlemen fined for refusing a knighthood: The following is a list of gentlemen belonging to Bromsgrove who were fined for not taking the order of Knighthood on the coronation of Charles 1st (1626) Roger Lowe, John Crabbe, Walter Brace, Thomas Fownes – 10 pounds sterling each. Nicholas Lilley 9.6.8 pounds sterling. John Westwood and Richard Burford 12 pounds sterling each.”

      William H. Whitmore, "Notes on the Winthrop Family and its English Connections, viz: The Families of Forth, Clopton, Tyndale and Fones," NEHG Register, vol. 18, Apr 1864, p. 185.

      Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree," NEHG Register, vol. 103, Oct 1949, p. 247:
      ANNE WINTHROP, b. 16 Jan. 1585/6; d. 16 May 1618. Married 25 Feb. 1604/5 THOMAS FONES, who died 15 April 1629. She was his first wife. (footenote says marriage was in Groton).

  • Sources 
    1. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, ANCESTORS OF FRANK HERBERT DAVOL AND HIS WIFE PHEBE DOWNING WILLITS SHOWING MAYFLOWER DESCENT FROM JOHN ALDEN, JAMES CHILTON, MARY CHILTON, FRANCIS COOKE, JOHN COOKE, WILLIAM MULLINES, ALICE MULLINES, PRISCILLA MULLINES, RICHARD WARREN COMPILED FOR THEffi SON FRANK HERBERT DAVOL, Jr. BY JOSEPHINE C. FROST (MRS. SAMUEL KNAPP FROST) OF BROOKLYN, N. T. Compiler of Frost, Haviland, Strang, Outenbogart, Shaw-Williams, Crary-Dunham, Swan-Farwell Genealogies and Lineage Book of the Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century; Editor of the Town Records of Jamaica, Long Island, 1656-1751. FREDERICK H. HITCHCOCK GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHER NEW YORK MCMXXV.
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      OBADIAH VALENTINE, son of Richard Valentine, was
      born in Hempstead, L. I., in 1660 and made his will April 2, 1739
      which was proven Oct. 4, 1743, in which he leaves his wife Martha,
      in lieu of dower "1 good feather bed, with furniture for same, 5
      cows, 12 sheep, my little brown pacing mare and her side saddle and
      bridle and while she remains my widow, the use of my biggest lower
      rooms and % my homestead, and % my orchard and so much of
      my salt and fresh meadow as will afford hay for her 5 cows and
      horse; also sufficient fire-wood, an iron pot and brass kettle, and
      % dozen pewter plates and a negro man and woman." If she refused
      to accept the above it was to be divided among his sons, Obadiah,
      Thomas, Jacob and Henry. He mentions his daughters, Phebe,
      widow of Peter DeMilt ; Sarah Valentine ; Anne, wife of Wm. Loynes
      and Ruth, wife of Samuel Dean. The maiden name of his wife is
      not known.

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      " Fownes (Devonshire, resident in that country for more than two centuries, previously of Saxby Saphy, Co. Worcester), also of Cornwall, bear" says Burke, "Azure, two eagles displayed in chief and a mullet in base, argent." Among the Winthrop papers was found an old manuscript pedigree of the Fownes or Fones family, which we transcribe by permission.

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      his will lists daughter mary as being child of priscilla, yet there is no child named mary listed under his 2nd marriage to priscilla (maiden name burges) former wife of last name paynter and another spouse of hers was last name sherman

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      This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.

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      Thomas Fones
      Birth: 1554 - Dodford,Worcestershire,England
      Death: 1604 - Bromsgrove,Worcestshire,England
      Father: John Fones
      Wife: Elinor Fones (born Dyson)
      Son: Thomas Fones

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      ancestry and descendants of the Winthrop family

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      Name: Fones, Thomas
      Dates: 1629
      Place: General, England
      Book: 1620 to 1629.
      Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1620-1629
      Text: 1629 Fones, Thomas, citizen and apothecary, of St. Sepulchres, London 28 Ridley

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      By Michael Johnson Wood.

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      This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.

    14. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA.

    15. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Lisa Power, GEDCOM file imported on 20 Aug 2003.


    16. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, GEDCOM file imported on 5 Mar 2000.


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      birth: 24 March 1573;
      birth: 24 March 1573;
      birth: 24 March 1573;
      birth: 24 March 1573;
      birth: 24 March 1573;
      birth: 24 March 1573;

    18. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Source Citation: Source number: 243.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: SAK.Source Information:Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900.
      Name: Thomas Fones
      Gender: Male
      Birth Place: Wo
      Birth Year: 1573
      Spouse Name: Anne Winthrop
      Spouse Birth Year: 1585
      Marriage
      Year: 1604
      Marriage State: Su
      Number Pages: 1


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