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Persoonlijke gegevens Joan Thurgood 

• Zij is geboren rond 1536 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.
• Zij is overleden op 3 november 1590 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.

  All Saints Churchyard Hockerill, Bishops Stortford

Gezin van Joan Thurgood

Zij heeft/had een relatie met John II Miller.

Kind(eren):

1. Thomas Miller  < 1561-1627 

Notities over Joan Thurgood

JOAN "Johan" THURGOOD and Thomas Miller, of Bishop's Stortford, County Herts, England.

The "history of place" is a factor in migration – the story of events in (or near to) one's place of residence become cause for people to remove from one location to another - this being as true today as in the 17th century, or at any point in human history. Joan "Johan" Thurgood Miller's grandchildren removed from England to Massachusetts. Political and economic factors – and importantly, religious beliefs and the Parliamentarian cause, were factors affecting families and livelihoods in the market town of Bishop's Stortford. These factors inevitably affected the Miller family, and may have influenced the migration to Massachusetts by some of Johan and John Miller's descendants, including my ancestor Elizabeth Miller (in Massachusetts, Elizabeth Miller married Isaac Heath). Thus, a "History of the Place Named Bishop's Stortford" is presented, by way of Wikipedia (edited for relevance):

History of Bishop's Stortford (Wikipedia)
Bishop's Stortford is a historic market town in Hertfordshire, England... district of East Herford... The town is commonly known as "Stortford" by locals.

The origins of the town's name are uncertain. One possibility is that the Saxon settlement derives its name from 'Steorta's ford' or 'tail ford', in the sense of a 'tail', or tongue, of land. The town became known as Bishop's Stortford due to the acquisition in 1060 by the Bishop of London.

The River Stort is named after the town, and not the town after the river.

Following the end of the Roman era, a new Anglo-Saxon settlement grew up on the site.

However, little is known about Stortford until the 1060s with the evidence becoming much stronger after the Norman Conquest. In 1060 when William, Bishop of London, bought Stortford manor and estate for £8, leading to the town's modern name. By 1086, the motte-and-bailey Waytemore Castle had been built as a local strongpoint for the area. It acted as a centre for defence and civil administration for roughly 125 years before it was dismantled but not destroyed by King John in 1211. Rebuilding of the castle started the following year at John's expense, and John stayed the night in the castle in 1216. By the 15th century, the castle had fallen into disrepair, and the Bishop's Court (one of the administrative structures for the area) moved to Hockerill, to the east of the town.

At the time of the Domesday Book the village had a population of around 120, and grew to around 700 by the 13th century.

Plague and growth: early modern Stortford
At the start of the early modern period in the mid 15th century, Stortford was a primarily agricultural community, but had also acquired a tanning industry. By the 16th century, Stortford had become an important centre of the malting industry. Not only were the local soils well suited for grains, but the fact that the town was just 35 miles to London provided an impetus to its development. The economic draw of the maltings and the town's market supported a large number of inns and public houses by the middle of the 16th century pointing to its prosperity.

Over the following hundred years, Stortford grew markedly. The population of Bishop's Stortford reached 1,500 by 1660 as a result of a positive net birth rate and migration to the town. This was despite a series of a dozen plagues between the 1560s and 1660s. The town also enjoyed a series of royal visits in the 17th century, with Charles I visiting the town in 1625, 1629 and 1642.

The years following the last of Charles' visits were to prove somewhat turbulent for the town. During the English Civil War Stortford backed the Parliamentarians, with the Manor of Stortford being sequestered from the Bishop of London and sold off for £2,845. It was returned to the Bishop at the Restoration. The Great Plague of 1666-7, and its lasting effects, reduced the population to only around 600 by 1700. The effects of the plague were so severe that the town had to appeal to the Hertfordshire magistrates, who levied a rate on every parish in the county for the relief of Bishop's Stortford, Hoddesdon and Cheshunt.
— Excerpts taken from "Bishop's Stortford" article, Wikipedia (copyright Wikipedia, for public use).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%27s_Stortford

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