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• Hij is geboren op 11 januari 1560 in Settrington, Yorks..
• (note1) .Bron 1

  Source: Mary Anna Babcock Bennett, Mary Averill Corkin, Nichols W. Ross, Charlie Spock, M. S. Parrow, et al.

• Hij is overleden op 30 maart 1613 in Settrington, Yorks., hij was toen 53 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven op 30 maart 1613 in Settrington, Yorks. (All Saints Churchyard).
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 3 juli 2023.

Gezin van James Eggleston

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Margaret Harker.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1585 te Settrington, Yorks., hij was toen 24 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Bigod (Bagot) (Begat) (Beget) (Bygod) Eggleston  1587-1674 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Juliana Frear.

Zij zijn getrouwd februari 1602 te Settrington, Yorks., hij was toen 42 jaar oud.

Notities over James Eggleston

James Eggleston

Sources: Author: Bennett, Mary Anna Babcock; Corkin, Mary Averill; Ross,Nichols W.; Spock, Charlie; Parrow, M. S.; et al.; Title: "James Eggleston," (Publication site: Salt Lk. City UT, Publisher: Family Search, Publication date: xv June MMXXIII)

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/8Y3J-DC2

"... James Eggleston Reason: Jacobi Egelstone in sources also in alternate names. "Bygod Eggleston's Mother" in the October, 1994 issue of The American Genealogist. Anderson's Great Migration of Bygod. Last Changed: May 31, 2023 pseudonym = KatCapGalT Sex Male Last Changed: November 22, 2012

Birth 11 January 1560 Settrington, Yorkshire, England Last Changed: June 10, 2023 Audrey [NN-family name not given]

Death 30 March 1613 Settrington, Yorkshire, England Last Changed: June 10, 2023 Audrey

Burial 30 March 1613 All Saints Churchyard, Settrington, Yorkshire, England Reason: All Saints Churchyard Settrington, Ryedale District, North Yorkshire, England Memorial ID 175908139 Last Changed: October 11, 2021 M. S. Sparrow

Alternate Name Birth Name James Egleston Last Changed: June 27, 2018 pseudonym=Sister Kidd
Alternate Name Birth Name James Egglestone Last Changed: June 27, 2018 Sister Kidd
Alternate Name Birth Name James Jacobas Egeleston Last Changed: June 27, 2018 Sister Kidd
Alternate Name Nickname Jacobus Eggleston Last Changed: September 1, 2019 Charlie Spock
Alternate Name Birth Name James Eggleston Reason: Alias: Jacobus Last Changed: March 28, 2021 Nichols W. Ross
Alternate Name Birth Name Jacobi Eggleston Last Changed: March 21, 2022 Mary Averill Corkin
Alternate Name Also Known As Jacobi Egeleston Last Changed: March 21, 2022 Mary Averill Corkin
Alternate Name Also Known As Jacobi Last Changed: July 30, 2022 Audrey

Will dated 12 November 1612 Settrington, Yorkshire, England Last Changed: March 1, 2019 Mary Anna Babcock Bennett

Spouses and Children

James Eggleston Male 1560-1613
Margaret Harker Female 1565-1602
Marriage 1585 - 1st wife Settrington, Yorkshire, England

Children (4)

[1] Bigod Eggleston Male 1587-1674
[2] Dorothy Eggleston Female 1589-1637
[3] Elizabeth Eggleston Female 1592-1674
[4] Janeta Eggleston Female 1595-1636

James Eggleston Male 1560-1613
Juliana Frear Female 1572-1636
Marriage February 1602 Settrington, Yorkshire, England

Children (4)

[1] James Eggleston II Male 1603-1658
[2] John Eggleston Male 1606-1667
[3] Margaret Eggleston Female 1609-1700
[4] Alice Eggleston Female 1611-Deceased

CAUTION: This James Eggleston's parents are Unknown. Please do not add parents. Parents that were added had NO credible sources attached to them. Also, please stop adding Juliana as a daughter. She was not.
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James Eggleston (1560-1613)
The parish records show that he was buried 30 Mar 1613, and his will (see F F Starr "English Goodwin Papers" , Hartford, 1921) informs us that he owned a double house at Settrington, in one half of which he himself lived, renting the other to Rowland Colby. There wer also "buildings, garth, and dovehouse," arable land, pasture land, and common land, the amount of which was not specified. He was able, besides, to provide six legacies of six pounds each for his children. He calls himself a yeoman, and for those days was certainly a man of some substance, probably farming his "errable land" and raising sheep, as did his neighbors, on the hilly grazing lands that were part of his estate.

We do not know, as yet, where James Egleston was born or who his parents were. He had a brother named Sylvester who was a baker in the city of Norwich, in Norfolk, and who was buried only six months before James, on 27 Sept 1612 (will and records cited by Starr, op. cit.).

There was in Settrington, too, a John Egleston who married, first, Janeta Ranyell 10 Nov 1592, and second, after her death in 1597, Modwina Tomlinson 6 Nov 1597, and then, apparently, a third wife, Jane. He may have been a brother of James, but on the other hand he is not mentioned in James' will and not he, but a brother-in-law, was called upon to settle James' estate.

The brother-in-law's name was Ralf Harker, and thus it may follow that James' wife, Juliana, was born JULIANA HARKER, but we do not know her parentage or birthplace, or the time and place of her marriage.

According to the parish records and the will of James the children were:
Bygod, bpt 20 Feb 1587;
Elizabeth, bp. 8 Oct 1592;
Janeta (Jane), bp. 2 Nov 1595;
James, bp. 19 June 1603;
John, bp. 6 Apr 1606;
Margaret, bp. 28 Feb 1609;
Dorothy (mentioned in the wills of both her father and her uncle); and
Alice, (mentioned in her father's will).

(SRC: F.Eggleston ROBBINS manuscript, "Bygod EGLESTON" - deposited in safe in 1962 of the NEHG Library, Boston, MA)
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By Rosalie Eggleston, Ph.D., and Linda Eggleston McBroom.
Descendants of Bygod Eggleston are in for a great surprise when they read our article entitled "Bygod Eggleston's Mother" in the October, 1994 issue of The American Genealogist.

We have recently discovered three wills which prove that James Eggleston, Bygod's father, was married thrice, that there was no Juliana Harker and that James Eggleston's second wife was Juliana Frear (Frere, Fryer).

For decades, most of Bygod's descendants have accepted as facts some unfounded conjectures which were intended to explain why James Eggleston called Ralph Harker "brother" in his will of 1612. He also named Juliana as his wife, therefore someone assumed that Juliana Harker was his first and only wife and that she was the sister of Ralph. Some descendants have gone so far as to claim that Bygod was given his unusual Christian name because Ralph Harker's mother, Dorothy, was in fact Dorothy Bigod, daughter of Sir Francis Bigod the one-time lord of the manor of Settrington where the Egglestons and Harkers lived. These irresponsible conjectures can now be proved wrong by the three recently discovered wills.

For details of the Eggleston and Harker families, see our book: Bygod Eggleston: Englishman and Colonist and Some of His Descendants, published by and available from the Mary John Clearing House.

Ralph Harker's father, Miles, had four sons and four daughters, but he did not name all of his daughters in his will of 1573. His eldest son, Richard Harker, made a fortune as a mercer in the city of London and he left a will dated 1574/5 in which he named all of his brothers as well as his sisters: Isabel, Agnes, Margaret and Elizabeth. There was no Julian Harker.

By the process of elimination achieved by finding the records for the marriages of Isabel, Agnes and Elizabeth, we conclude that Margaret Harker was James Eggleston's first wife and the mother of Bygod, Dorothy, Elizabeth and Jane.

Richard Harker's Will also shows that the Dorothy named in Miles Harker's will was not his first wife and not the mother of Richard who calls her his mother-in-law, meaning stepmother.

After the death of Miles, Dorothy Harker married Robert Lamb on 13 August 1581. These facts make the theory about Dorothy Bigod look very absurd. Dorothy Bigod married Roger Radcliff and had two children by him neither of whom was a Dorothy nor parented a Dorothy. Dorothy Radcliff died before 1565.

In our book about Bygod, we presented a chart giving the names and baptismal dates of James Eggleston's eight children. Margaret (Harker) Eggleston must have died during the eight-year gap between the births of Jane in 1595 and James, Jr. in 1603.

In about 1601-1602, James Eggleston married Juliana Frear, as our second will proves. Her father, John Frear, was a yeoman of Thorpe Bassett, a parish adjacent to Settrington. In his will of 1605, he used the words "my son in law James Eggleston of Settrington" twice.

At the end of John Frear's will when he is listing the people who owed him money, he said, "Item I do freely forgive my son in law James Eggleston 18 shillings which he oweth unto me for a wayne." In addition to the remission of this debt for a wain, or a wagon, James received cash totaling five pounds for his legacy.

James's marriage to Juliana Frear is not recorded in the Settrington registers. Presumably they were married at Thorpe Bassett and that parish register does not begin until 1656. However, a brother and two sisters of Juliana were married at Settrington; Leonard Frear married Jane Swinburn on 3 May 1579; Alice Frear married Christopher Jenkinson 1 July 1682 and Helen Frear married Christopher Harker 17 May 1590. The IGI records these marriages and also the baptism of Christopher, son of Robert Harker. He may have been a cousin of Ralph, son of Miles Harker. Juliana's brother, Leonard Frear, once owned the dovecote at Settrington which came into the possession of James Eggleston. The importance of the dovecote is discussed in our book about Bygod. Further connection with the Frear family are revealed in our third will, of Juliana herself.

When James Eggleston died in 1613, Juliana was left with the tuition of his minor children whose ages ranged from ten to about two years; James, Jr., John, Margaret and Alice. About a year later, Juliana Eggleston married William Bainton who helped her run the farm and bring up her children. Bainton died in 1632 and left Juliana a widow for the second time. Juliana Bainton made her will on 1 January 1636/7, and was buried a week later. By this time her four children were all married. In her will, Juliana named her own children and grandchildren, but she also named, or implied, James's older daughters; Dorothy, Elizabeth (deceased) and Jane. Of course, Juliana did not name Bygod because by then he was in Windsor, CT, struggling to build a life for himself and his three English-born sons, James, Samuel and John. We have found some Windsor land grants for "John, son of Baggett Egleston". From these we now know that John Egleston who died at Windsor in 1646 was an English-born son of Bygod. John obviously died too young to become a freeman of Windsor or to get married, so that is why we did not know about him before. He must have been a very small boy when Bygod and sons made the voyage to the colonies.

Juliana's will contains another interesting piece of information. In our book about Bygod (p. 60), we said that we thought that Bygod, Dorothy and Jane all went together to visit or live with their uncle Sylvester Eggleston in Norwich, Norfolk. They were the only ones of James Eggleston's children to receive legacies from Sylvester. Juliana's will proves that we right and we were also right about Jane's marriage to Samuel Clarke. Juliana left money to "my dawter Dorothy Barnwicke which is at noreg" and "my dawter Jane Clarke which is at noreg". Here Juliana means stepdaughters. Obviously these two Eggleston girls stayed on at Norwich and got married there after Bygod left for New England in 1630.

It is a mystery why these children of James went to Norwich in the first place. It may have been because of Sylvester's only surviving daughter, Katherine, who was apparently disabled in some way and could not look after herself. Sylvester seemed to sense that both he and his wife, Ann, were going to die and leave Katherine defenseless. They both did die a year after Bygod and his sisters arrived at Norwich for we now know they were there by 1611 when Bygod's name appears on the Norwich militia list for 1611 (NNRO 13A/15/1-20). This was a list of all able bodied householders and their servants who could be called to muster several times a year. It was not a standing army and the names of Sylvester and his son, Edmund, appear there also. The militia list gives us another reference to Bygod's presence in Norwich. In 1611 he seems to have been a servant of Robert Coulson.

The three wills discussed in detail in our TAG (The American Genealogist) article give us the first significant breakthrough in Bygod's English background for decades. We are indebted to Mr. Robert Anderson, co-editor of TAG, for discovering the will of Richard Harker which may be found in 14 Pyckering, P.C.C. or FHL mf 0091953. We are also indebted to Tim Owston, a genealogist of York, England, and a descendant of the Bigods of Scagglethorpe, for discovering the wills of John Frear (vol. 29, fol. 704, P.C.Y.) and Juliana Bainton (Buckrose D 1636/7).Tim contacted us through our mutual membership in the East Yorkshire Family History Society.

Birth: 11 January 1560 - Settrington, Yorkshire, England
Died: 30 March 1613

Last Changed: May 24, 2023 pseudonym=KatCapGalT"
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