Re: Marriage License of East Apthorpe and Susan Ward

[WJho...@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/30/2011 7:55:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
ravinma...@yahoo.com writes:

> _The Wentworth Genealogy_ notes that "East Apthorpe, of Wales, married
> Susan, daughter of Rev. Dr. Ward, of the Church of England. He died
> in Boston, Mass., 25 Sept. 1713; she died 7 July 1714. They had
> Charles Apthorpe ... [and other descendants in New England]."
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=KR8aAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA520&dq=apthorp+ward&
> hl=en&ei=oT-TTfWVCNK2tgez5bx0&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&
> ved=0CEkQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=apthorp%20ward&f=false
>

This note is actually on page 519, one page earlier than your link

http://books.google.com/books?id=KR8aAAAAIAAJ&dq=apthorp%20ward&
pg=PA519#v=onepage&q&f=false

[WJho...@aol.com]

Is it known that this East is a son of Stephen?

I find an East Apthorpe baptised in Gamlingay, co Camb (Batch C073631 wj) 4
May 1667, that would fit fairly well with him being "about 24" Dec 1689

Esp. if he decided to push his age up a bit because his bride was a few
years older.

[ravinma...@yahoo.com]

To continue on with this topic, some portions of which I deleted ...

Many sources say Charles Apthorpe of New England (father, among others, of Rev. East Apthorpe, who returned to England) was son of John Apthorpe and Susan Ward, kinswoman of some Lord Ward.

The parents of Charles are actually Susan Ward and EAST Apthorpe, after whom the grandson was named. _Annals of King's Chapel [Boston] From the Puritan Age of New England_, 2:142, gives his parents as "East and Susan Apthorp," while mentioning a portrait of Susan (by Sir Peter Lely), still in the family, and her suspposed connections to the Lords Ward of Bexley.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3609668;view=1up;seq=202

Vol. one of the set mentions several early references to "East Apthorpe," which are too early to be the grandson, and must therefore be for the father of Charles.

"Mr. East Apthorp" occurs in a vestry meeting from 1703:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044013681531;view=1up;seq=199

Also, apparently, sometime before 1711:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044013681531;view=1up;seq=271

Also, in 1706:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044013681531;view=1up;seq=217

The marriage licence, dated 1689, of East Apthorpe and Susan Ward shows him of St. Botolph's Bishopgate, and her of St. Faith's, London:

[1689.] Dec. 19 East Apthorpe, of St Buttolph's, Bishopsgate, Lond., Broad Weaver, Bachr, abt 24, & Susan Ward, of St Faith's, London, Spr, abt 25, with consent of her mother, her father dead; at St Giles, Cripplegate, London.

https://books.google.com/books?id=oLi9F0_km1AC&pg=PA129&dq=%22susan+ward%22+apthorpe&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidkamZ6cfeAhUGyVMKHf-WBn44ChDoAQhPMAc#v=onepage&q=%22susan%20ward%22%20apthorpe&f=false

Note her mother consents, her father is dead, and there seems no necessary reason to connect her to the Lords Ward of Bexley.

From snippets in _Monumental Inscriptions and Coats of Arms from Cambridgeshire: Chiefly as Recorded by John Layer about 1632 and William Cole Between 1742 and 1782_, p. 63, I find a reference to an earlier East Apthorpe of Cambridgeshire, surely a relation, possibly a progenitor:

Inscription: Here lieth the Body of East Apthorp Son to James Apthorp of Brook End. Here also lieth the Body of James Apthorp 2d Son of James Apthorp. And here also lyeth the Body of James Apthorp the Father of the said East and James Apthorp. And here also lieth the Body of Stephen Apthorp the 3d Son to the said James Apthorp. ...

https://books.google.com/books?id=XVdmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22east+apthorp%22&dq=%22east+apthorp%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdoLuD5sfeAhWO2FMKHRjBAyg4ZBDoAQhCMAU

Will Johnson had noted an East Apthorp (? son of Stephen), baptized 4 May 1667 at Gamlingay, co. Cambridge, which would make him "about 24" if the same person in the 1689 marriage licence. Stephen might be the third son of the East Apthorp in the monumental inscription above.