Thomas Hale

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁶⁰¹
Thomas Hale, father of our Thomas Hale, according to the parish register at Watton, died 19 Oct 1630. The register records his name as "Thomas Hale, Senior." He left a will dated 11 Oct 1630 that was proved 9 Dec 1630, in the court of the Archdeaconry of Hitchin, Herts, by the excecutor, Thomas Hale, Junior. The witnesses to the will were Francis Kirby and John Hale. In this will he names his wife Joane, son Thomas and his four daughters as well as his son-in-law, Henry Beane. He also request that "my brother Francis Kirby to be an overseer" of his son Thomas who he names as sole executor. From the records, Thomas Hale, Sr. is apparently of the rank of yeoman with a small amount of property.
~Genealogy of descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton, England, and of Newbury, Mass., pp. 1-16

Thomas married Joan Kirby, daughter of John Kirby and Joan Cranfield, on 19 Oct 1601 in Watton-on-Stone, Hertfordshire, England. ^669,670 (Joan Kirby was born about 1582 in Little Munden, Hertsfordshire, England. ⁶⁷⁰ and died After 1640 and before 1660 in Little Munden, Hertsfordshire, England ^601,670)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Record. ⁶⁶⁹
Marriage Records of Watton, published in the Phillimore's Hertfordshire Parish Register's Marriages, p. 87.

~NEHGR, Vol. 46, p. 186