Ralph Tough

Burrough on the Hill, Melton

Father: Thomas Tough

Mother: Susan Tough

Children include Frances

Ralph Tough was a son of Thomas Tough of Rothley and Mountsorrel in Leicestershire and his wife Susan. His father died in 1586, when Ralph was still under age, and his mother in 1592. The next year, 1593, his name appears in the Rothley manor court rolls for the first time. His elder brother Thomas died in 1619. His sisters were Jeane and Margaret.

He lived afterwards at Burrough-on-the-Hill, near Melton Mowbray, and was probably the Ralph Tough who served as churchwarden there in 1612.

His daughter Frances was probably born at Burrough about 1595 to 1597. The parish registers there begin only in 1612. She went to London as a young woman, and on 26 November 1617 she married Sampson Chester, a merchant tailor from Leicestershire, at St Anne's Blackfriars. She married second Thomas Smith and third Edward Stebbins, and died at Hartford in Connecticut in 1673. A Joane Tough who married Thomas Hoye at Burrough in 1632 may also have been Ralph's daughter.

Parents

Susan Tough (d. 1592)

Thomas Tough (d. 1586)

Children

Frances Tough (d. 1673)

Sources

England, Leicestershire, Parish Registers, 1533-1991, Burrough on the Hill, marriage 13 May 1632 and burial 10 March 1633 · with Skeffington 1591 and Colchester, Essex, 1618 to 1629

Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, vol III (archive.org greatmigrationbe0003ande)

John Insley Coddington and Florence E. Skillington, "The Family of Frances (Tough)(Chester)(Smith) Stebbing," The American Genealogist 30 (1954), p. 193, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1954-10_30_4

John Insley Coddington and Florence E. Skillington, "The Family of Frances (Tough)(Chester)(Smith) Stebbing," The American Genealogist 30 (1954), p. 205, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1954-10_30_4

John Insley Coddington and Florence E. Skillington, "The Family of Frances (Tough)(Chester)(Smith) Stebbing," The American Genealogist 30 (1954), p. 206, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1954-10_30_4

John Insley Coddington and Florence E. Skillington, "The Family of Frances (Tough)(Chester)(Smith) Stebbing," The American Genealogist 30 (1954), pp. 193-208, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1954-10_30_4

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