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Note: Source: THE ENGLISH ORIGINS OF THE GABRIEL LEGGETT FAMILY
Early Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, New York
Researched by Dorothy Corbett Wertz, Ph.D. Boston University,
School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, 1985
Compiled by the Rev. John Milton Leggett, Trinity Episcopal Church, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1986
Electronically scanned, formatted and annotated thusly [ ] by his son, David John Leggett, 13 February 2000
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Hits for Kilbourn (no hits for Kilbourne or any Soundex variation) in Cambridgeshire, none from Ely, 24 January 2003:
Cambridgeshire, England: Parish and Probate Records
Viewing records 1-2 of 2 Matches
Cambridgeshire: - Registers of Marriages, 1558-1813
Marriages at Curry Rivel, 1642 to 1812. Cambridgesbire Parish Registers. Marriages at St. Edward's, Cambridge, 1558 to 1812.
Volumr 3. County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Wm. Rowles, of St. Ives, Hunts, & Martha Kilbourn, of Cambridge, lic. 11 Jul 1713
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Cambridgeshire: - Registers of Marriages, 1539-1812
Marriages at Curry Rivel, 1642 to 1812. Cambridgeshire Parish Registers. Marriages at Boxworth, 1588 to 1812. Volume 1. County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
John Gellings & Anne Kilbourn 08 Sep 1678
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The Kilbourne research in its entirety:
DOROTHY C. WERTZ
2002 MAIN ROAD, BOX 95
WESTPORT POINT, MASS. 02791
Dec 16 [1985]
Dear John + Ellin,
We'll look forward to seeing Ellin + David on Jan. 2. Our vacation in Oaxaca was terrific-also inexpensive. First time we've stayed put in one place + rested.
I'm enclosing the latest from the genealogist-fills in a few more cracks, but not too illuminating.
Love,
Dorothy
[There follows on a separate sheet a hand drawn Kilbourne pedigree (inaccurate), with notes, as follows:]
ESSENTIALLY WHAT THIS TELLS YOU IS THAT THE KILBURNES HAD A LOT OF LAND AS EARLY AS 1582 + that they were a large family that continued to live in the Ely-Cambridge area after the American Gabriel (son of Susan (Kilburne) Leggett + Gabriel Leggett left.) The appearance of the name HUNT is interesting, as Thomas Hunt was one of the earliest settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, arriving sometime between 1652 and 1669. Could Gabriel Leggett (American) have been cousin to Thomas Hunt on his mother's side? (Don't have a list of Hunt children, but will look).
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C. A. & D. THURLEY
Genealogists and Record Searchers
Maltings Close 14 Milton Road
Whelnetham Road Impington
Rougham Cambs. CB4 4NF
Bury St. Edmunds please reply to tel. Histon (022023 4188
Suffolk IP30 9HY Impington
tel. Beyton (0359) 70544
3 December 1985
Dear Ms Wertz,
Thank you for your letters of August 20 and November 24, and remittance of L60.
We are sorry for the delay in sending a report but we can now attach material from the Ely Consistory probate records which gives inter alia Susan Kilbourne's parentage; and information from the Ely registers.
We are also working through the Feet of Fines published in East Anglian during the period 1895-1903. These are unindexed so it is necessary to read each entry. One useful entry is
24 & 25 Eliz (1582) Mich
Edward Kilborn v John Kilborn senior and Anna his wife and John Kilborn junior and Etheldreda his wife of 2 mess 2 gardens 48 acres of land 4 of meadow 6 of pasture and 2 of wood in Trumpington. Edward gave L40
This may well take us a further generation back, and also lead us to a detailed study of Trumpington records. Certainly the first 6 Kilbourne wills in the Consistory Court, spanning the years 1503-1612 are all for Trumpington men.
Trusting you will find the enclosed information of interest.
Yours sincerely,
Clifford Thurley
For C.A. and D.Thurley
Account
Time 10 hours at L5 ph L50.00
Postage .59
50.59
received 60.00
amount standing to your credit L9.41
CLIFFORD A THURLEY FLA AGRA DOROTHEA THURLEY CERT. IN ENGLISH LOCAL HISTORY, CAMBRIDGE
MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS
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ELY CONSISTORY COURT
John Kilborne the elder of Chettesham with the Isle of Ely yeoman
To John Kilborne my eldest son...
Etheldred Kilborne his mother...
Thomas Kilborne my son...
Edward Kilborne my son...
Elizabeth my daughter the wife of William Hunt...
Susan my daughter...
Agnes my daughter...
Residue to Etheldred my wife whom I make sole exec
Made 10 Jul 1622
Witnessed by John Kilbourne jun Richard Field
Probate granted to Etheldred Kilborne exec 31 Jul 1623
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Thomas Kilburne of Littleport Isle of Ely yeoman
To Gabriel Leggett my brother in law the bond of mine which he hath in his hand of L50 due from William Yarrow upon condition that the sd Gabriell Leggit with the help ... of John Greene my son in law shall pay...unto Ann Kilburne my wife...
John Kilburne my grandchild
Martha and Margaret Kilburne my grandchildren
John Greene s of John Greene my son in law
Gabriell Leggit my brother in law L3 which is in the hands of Thomas Gotobed of Ely
Residue to son John Kilburne who is made sole exec
Made 27 Mar 1651
Witnessed by John Crabb Henere Hockes Robert Whitechurch
Probate granted 2 May 1651 to exec
ELY CONSISTORY COURT
Edward Kilborne of Ely potter
Unto John Kilborne my eldest son...
Jane Kilborne my wife...
Joshua my youngest son...
Katherine my d...
Katherine my mother...
Sole exec Jane my wife
Supervisors William Balam esq. Luke Grogan chandler
Made 8 May 1667
Witnessed by Thomas Younge Susan Younge John Bowes
Probate granted 27 Jun 1667 to sole exec
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John Kilborne of Ely yeoman
Unto Thomas Kilborne my s...
Edward Kilborne my s
Thomas Kilborne my grandchild
John Kilborne my grandchild and s unto my s Edward Kilborne
Katherin Kilborne one of my grandchildren
Mary Kilborn my grandchild
Sole exec Katherine my wife
Made 26 Aug 1653
Witnessed by Edward Smith Susanna Leggett Richard Field
Probate granted 31 May 1670
Ely St. Mary parish register transcripts
Search for Kilburne
marriages 1599-1754
..... .... 1618 Thomas Kilburne Margerit Fowler
29 Apr 1619 John Hunt Elizabeth Kilburne
10 Feb 1619/20 Edward Hobie Agnes Kilburne
31 Jul 1623 Edward Kilborne Elener Carter
26 Jul 1625 Gabriell Legget Susan Kilborne
15 Nov 1625 Edward Kilborne Audrie Smith
19 Jun 1640 Edward Kilborne Martha Haux
18 Oct 1676 Robert Mare Mathew Kelborn
burials 1599-1671 gap 1649-1660
11 Mar 1608/09 Andreas Kilborne s John
27 Jul 1623 John Kilborne
23 Jan 1624/5 Audrie Kilborne d Edward
23 Oct 1625 Ellen Kilborne wife of Edmund
21 Aug 1630 widow Kilborne
16 Jan 1631/2 Margaret wife of Thomas Kilborne
3 Apr 1639 Daniel s Edward Kilborne 21 Dec 1639 Edward s "
1 Jan 1639/40 Audrey wife " 5 Feb 1640/1 Martha " " 14 May 1642 Elizabeth d "
28 Aug 1661 Jane d John Kelborn
baptism 1599-1625
1 Dec 1599 Susanna Kilborne d John Ely Holy Trinity
Baptisms 1559-1626
6 Jun 1619 John Kilburne of John 26 Nov 1620 Thomas Kilborne of John
29 Sep 1622 Edward " of "
burials 1559-1684
27 Jul 1616 Thomas Kilburne inf
13 Jul 1623 John Kilborne of John
31 Aug 1653 John Kilburne senex
20 Feb 1654/5 John " inf
4 Nov 1657 Oliver " inf
28 Nov 1660 John " inf
14 Feb 1662/3 Penelope wife of Edward Kilborne
26 May 1666 Edward Kilborne inf
13 Jun 1667 Edward Kilbourn
11 Aug 1669 Catherine Kilborne inf
22 Nov 1680 Cathe Kilborne widow
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C. A. & D. THURLEY
Genealogists and Record Searchers
Maltings Close 14 Milton Road
Whelnetham Road Impington
Rougham Cambs. CB4 4NF
Bury St. Edmunds please reply to tel. Histon (022023 4188
Suffolk IP30 9HY Impington
tel. Beyton (0359) 70544
8 July 1986
Dear Ms Wertz,
Thank you for your letter of Feb. 3 and the L60 enclosed therein. We regret our continuing searches have not produced anything relevant for you.
a) Children of John and Elizabeth Hunt. We have searched Ely St. Mary baptisms 1619-1640 and the indexed transcripts of Ely Holy Trinity baptisms 1559-1684. The only Hunt entries were in Ely Holy Trinity, namely,
28 Oct 1583 Margaret d Samuel Hunt
7 Jan 1598/9 Elizabeth d Thomas Hunt b) Boyd's Cambs marriages begins in 1538 but the earliest Legat entry is in 1575 (in Sutton) and the 1984 IGI, where Legat coverage seems poor, has the earliest 1588/9 in Cambridge St. Mary the Great. This latter was for a John Legat to Alice Sheirs and further investigation in the St. Mary registers produced a lot of children but of questionable relevancy because this John would appear to be the man who was appointed University Printer in 1588. He appears in DNB but no information is given of his origins. There is no will proved in the Ely Courts but as he moved to London in 1609 there may be one in the PCC.
c) We have checked the vast Document Collection and the Society of Genealogists with no result.
d) We have had a further look at Trumpington, but while there are many Kilburnes 1605 onwards in the BTs the earliest register is 1671+, so we are baulked here too.
e) Have we reached the end of the road in local records? We hesitate to suggest Chancery Records at the Public Record Office because a) they are so vast and b) when Gabriel Legate of Ely was granted a lease by Clare College in 1565 he was a labourer. However, there are some printed calendars in the Lists and Indexes series for early chancery proceedings, copies of which are in the Cambridge UL and we will investigate these and report in due course. Should we find anything likely we will also be able to suggest some London-based searchers who would be able to follow the references through at the PRO.
Sorry to be so negative.
Yours sincerely,
Clifford Thurley
For C.A. and D.Thurley
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C. A. & D. THURLEY
Genealogists and Record Searchers
Maltings Close 14 Milton Road
Whelnetham Road Impington
Rougham Cambs. CB4 4NF
Bury St. Edmunds please reply to tel. Histon (022023 4188
Suffolk IP30 9HY Rougham
tel. Beyton (0359) 70544
8 April 1987
Dear Ms Wertz,
Thank you for your letter of February 22nd, which sent to me my letter of 8th July 1986.
After our last letters had crossed in the post, and being much occupied with our long drawn move from Impington to Rougham, I was waiting to hear from you, and quite overlooked the fact that I was going to check Chancery sources at the University Library, Cambridge. I apologise for this oversight.
I have now searched the Lists and Indexes for Chancery Proceedings 1558-1714 without success.
The Chancery records are vast, and the indexes searched are arranged under initial letter of plaintiff. This is the only concession to alphabetical order so all entries have to be read. The task of searching the defendants is daunting in the extreme. Hence my reluctance to suggest their use. The frustrating thing is that these records are a mine of detailed information if only the right documents can be traced.
Should you feel it worth pursuing this line of enquiry you will need a London-based searcher. A colleague I can recommend is
Michael Yelland BA 311 Croxted Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 9DB
You ask if the Leggett search is at an end. It probably is so far as Cambridge records are concerned. I am sorry more has not been forthcoming. However, although my wife and I are now in receipt of the state pension, so we are cutting back on our research activities, should we ever come across material which is relevant to your searches we will write to you.
Yours sincerely,
Clifford Thurley
For C.A. and D.Thurley
CLIFFORD A THURLEY FLA AGRA DOROTHEA THURLEY CERT. IN ENGLISH LOCAL HISTORY, CAMBRIDGE
MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS
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DOROTHY C. WERTZ
2002 MAIN ROAD, BOX 95
WESTPORT POINT, MASS. 02791
April 17, 1987
Dear John,
I am enclosing the latest from our British genealogy searchers, which arrived the same day as David did. As I told David, I believe that there is really no point in searching any further backwards. I am enclosing their reference to a London searcher, in case you decide to push this further. I have no plans to do any more.
Gabriel Leggett rose from obscurity in the time of Elizabeth I, and , as he did not own land, it will be impossible to trace him backward. Parish records generally do not go back beyond the late 16th century, and the only way of tracing people is through land ownership, or occasionally, court suits. You might be able to trace some of the female lines, notably the Kilbournes, back further, as they appeared to have owned land.
As for a connection with Stanton's Farm-it may well exist, as Ely is in fact closer to Stanton's Farm than Westport is to Boston-a distance of about 40 miles, even though it is in a different shire. It is impossible to prove this connection, however. It may go all the way back to Harvey Legatus in the Domesday Book. There were Leggetts in many small villages to the south and west of Ely, also in the areas of Essex east of London, and relationships are difficult to establish.
I hope David will find real estate work exciting. It was difficult to tell whether he was really interested. If he can get the firm to throw him all their legal work, such as routine title searches, he could make a living from that.
Ellin's cookies were delicious and we are enjoying them. Please thank her.
Dorothy
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-----Original Message-----
From: MandWBolton@aol.com [mailto:MandWBolton@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 5:52 AM
To: Leggett, David
Subject: Leggett ancestral searches
Dear David,
It's good to hear from you again, but we are very sorry (and rather stunned) to hear of Dorothy's sudden death. The fact that she died of a heart attack while scuba diving, during a break from attending meetings of international importance, sums up how I think of her - as a person who was full of vigour, and with many strong interests. I'm sure she would have liked to have been able to be in this country long enough to be able to do all the searching herself. If only one didn't have to earn a living, it would make an interesting life's work, I think.
Thank you very much for sharing Dorothy's findings with us. The letter from Clare College, and those from the Record Searchers, giving the references to the documents they searched, will be extremely useful to us if we go to look for our other names of interest in the same documents. The Kilborn wills details are interesting, and we shall try to do some more work on those - then Bill should be able to include the links on his chart. I have a later Kilborne interest (married in 1705 to Thomas Lawrence) which I have not yet been able to pursue.
Have you seen http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam
Susanne Lucretia "Sam" Behling has put on some information on the name KILBORNE/variations, including the marriage of Susanna Kilborne to Gabriel "LEGGER" in Ely St. Mary's (see her "Seventh Generation" under Register Report - KILBORNE).
We keep working on all our lines when we can, also bearing in mind the lines of our correspondents, and occasionally we do find things that help them, too, so I hope we'll be able to send you something useful one day!
Best wishes, Margaret.
-----Original Message-----
From: Leggett, David
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 1:25 PM
To: 'MandWBolton@aol.com'
Subject: RE: Leggett ancestral searches
Margaret,
Glad to hear you are still at the research, also that some of Dorothy's efforts will be of benefit to you. It is an interesting coincidence that I transcribed the correspondence and emailed her for the first time in several months on the day of her death.
I wonder if the searchers whose letters I sent you are still alive. They had just become pensioners by the end of the correspondence in 1987.
It is wonderful to have the correspondence, especially that letter from Clare College, as the latter really sorts out the landholdings.
Unfortunately, none of it helps much with the case of the disappearing Gabriel Leggett 1637-1700. I have posted Dorothy's comments on the baptismal record. She saw the record back in 1985, but was not allowed to make copies due to the problem of people stealing the pages, she said. So evidently the page in question has since disappeared.
Regarding the will, I have the copies of all the wills she received from Shire Hall, Cambridge. She says transcriptions were made by one of the archivists there, but I do not have those transcriptions. But it is clear that the photocopy of the will in question is the same as yours as to content. I have not yet placed them side by side to see if they are copies of the same document. I figure the addition of the reference to Gabriel Leggett was a case of somebody, paid, perhaps telling Dorothy what she wanted to hear, or, more likely, having Gabriel Leggett on the brain, just making an honest mistake. The latter is especially more likely given that the photocopies were enclosed with the transcriptions. No one would be likely to fabricate in a transcription while enclosing a true photocopy. But Dorothy evidently never checked the two against each other.
So, my conclusion is that all we have to go on is the rarity of the name Gabriel. Its being carried forward in the line is the only thing that saves us from this all being pure conjecture. Interesting that it was not given in pride as a matter of course to the first born son; curiously, in fact, often quite the opposite as set forth below:
Gabriel (b. 1545-1609) we have no idea of his position in any birth order. He did not give the name to either of his two sons.
His younger son, John (b. 1571-1631), did not carry on the tradition at all. We have the line down to John's grandchildren, where the Leggett name evidently died out along with the male line, but there is no Gabriel anywhere.
His older son, Thomas, (b.1570-1640), gave the name to the LAST born of his two sons, Gabriel, (b.1599-1657), after naming the first John. (John, whom I call "John Leggett of Exeter" I believe to have emigrated, being the earliest Leggett in America, in Barbados in 1635 and Exeter N. H. in 1639. John married a widow, Ann Wilson in Exeter in 1644, she being too old to bear further children, his line died out. He moved to Westchester about 1652, subsequent death date unknown.)
Gabriel (b. 1599-1657) in turn gave the name to the LAST born of his six sons, Gabriel (1637-1700), (the one for which we now have no written proof of in Ely), after naming the first five sons, Thomas, John, Richard, William and Edward respectively. Of these older sons, only John and William survived childhood. (John I believe to have emigrated as he disappears from the Ely records after he was appointed executor of his brother William's estate in July, 1665. He became known as "John Leggett the Mariner" and died in Jamaica in 1679, his will being proven in New York in 1680. He fathered a whole different branch of the family, as his son John married into the N. Y. Dutch community, and his descendants had Dutch names and language until the Dutch assimilated into the larger English-speaking population during the course of the 18th and early 19th centuries. This could be conclusively proven or not by DNA testing between descendants of John and Gabriel, I suppose.)
Returning to Gabriel (1637-1700), he emigrated in 1661, married in America late for those days (about 1675), and gave the name Gabriel to the LAST born of his four sons, Gabriel (1698-1786), after naming the first three sons John, Thomas and William, respectively. (Son Thomas gave the name to his FIRST (now there's a change) born, Gabriel (1743-1838.)
Gabriel (1698-1786) gave the name to his LAST born son Gabriel (? - b.1760), after naming his first three sons Isaac, Thomas and James. This Gabriel was married 28 Dec 1757, and so had a very short time in which to have children, and had only one child we know of, evidently his FIRST born son Gabriel, born about 1758, about whose life we know absolutely nothing at present, so if any tradition was carried on in that line is anyone's guess. An older son of Gabriel (1698-1786), the abovementioned James, named his two sons Gabriel (? - b. 1800) and Thomas, with Gabriel likely the FIRST born.
Well, sorry to bore you with my Gabriel Analysis. With the exception of Gabriel Martin Leggett, born 8 November 1987, a descendant of Gabriel (1698-1786) that exhausts the Gabriels in my database. There are only a total of nine. I am sure I am missing a few yet, though. As I said above, it is one thing to have a name given in pride to a firstborn son. But we here have a rather remarkable tradition of the name Gabriel being given to the last born son accross four consecutive generations, two in England and two in America, a period that runs from sometime before 1599 to sometime after 1721. Sort of a booby prize. So not only do we have the name itself and its rarity, but its position in the birth order, remarkably consistent both in Ely and New York, although it did occur in different order in other branches of the family. I know it's not the written proof everyone likes, but nonetheless interesting and worthy of consideration.
I think I'll contact the creator of the Kilbourne site you referenced and get that Gabriel LEGGER corrected.
Best,
David
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