Henry Tuthill

1580-1619

Born 1580

Died 1619

Children include Henry

Henry Tuthill was born about 1580 and lived at Tharston in Norfolk. He married Alice, and between 1607 and 1617 five of their children were baptised at St Mary's church in Tharston: John on 25 October 1607, William on 29 October 1609, Henry on 28 June 1612, Alice on 24 September 1614, and Elizabeth on 9 March 1616.

He was probably the youngest son of John Tuthill of Saxlingham and his wife Elizabeth Woolmer. The pedigree of the Tuthills of Norfolk kept by the College of Arms names two sons of that couple, William and John, and Henry is thought to have been a third. His will names "John Tuthill, brother", which fits. If so, his uncle was William Tuthill of Newton, gentleman, who bought the manor of Thorpehall in Saxlingham in 1567 and died in 1591. William's daughter Elizabeth married Sir Roger Dalyson and died on 27 September 1585, in her nineteenth year. Her tomb in the church of Trowse with Newton carries the Tuthill arms: a gold shield with a blue chevron bearing three silver crescents.

He made his will on 20 March 1618. In England the new year then began on 25 March, so by modern reckoning the date was 20 March 1619. The will names "John Gooch, father; Margaret Rau, mother-in-law; Ann Woodyard, kinswoman; John Tuthill, brother; wife Alice, and the five children." In wills of that time "father" and "mother-in-law" could mean a wife's parents or a step-parent, so John Gooch was most likely Alice's father.

The Tharston register enters his burial on 26 March 1618. Taken at face value that would fall a year before the will, so the burial belongs to March 1619, six days after he made it. The will was proved on 20 April 1619. His eldest son was eleven and his youngest daughter was two.

Two of his sons went to New England. John, the eldest, was at New Haven by 1640 and was one of the earliest settlers of Southold on Long Island. In 1642 the New Haven court made him constable for Yennicok, as Southold was then called, the first civil officer the place had. He later went back to England, married again and left descendants there. Henry, the third son, came to Hingham in Massachusetts in the 1630s and moved on to Southold about 1644. Long Island tradition makes the second son William the William Tuthill, aged 26, who came over in the Planter in 1635 and settled at New Haven, but the New Haven family believed their William came from Devonshire.

Children

Henry Tuthill b. 1612

Sources

Lucy Dubois Akerly, "The Tuthill Family of Tharston, Norfolk Co., England, and Southold, Suffolk Co., New York", reprinted from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, July and October 1898, archive.org tuthillfamilyoft00aker, p. 3, https://archive.org/details/tuthillfamilyoft00aker/page/n8

Lucy Dubois Akerly, "The Tuthill Family of Tharston, Norfolk Co., England, and Southold, Suffolk Co., New York", reprinted from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, July and October 1898, archive.org tuthillfamilyoft00aker, p. 4, https://archive.org/details/tuthillfamilyoft00aker/page/n10

Lucy Dubois Akerly, "The Tuthill Family of Tharston, Norfolk Co., England, and Southold, Suffolk Co., New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, July and October 1898, reprint pp. 3, 4 and 12, archive.org tuthillfamilyoft00aker, citing the Church Register of St Mary's, Tharston, and the College of Arms Pedigree of Tuthill of Norfolk

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