Individual Details
Thomas Perkins
(Abt 1458 - Bef 21 Apr 1528)
==Biography==
[[Category: Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]
[[Category: Saint John The Baptist Church, Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]'''Thomas Perkins is the earliest proven ancestor of immigrant John Perkins. Thomas' date of birth, place of birth and parents are unknown. The surname of his wife Alys is unknown. There is no documentable evidence for parents William Perkins and Joanne Read.'''
He has been detached from [[Perkins-956|William Perkins]] and [[Read-74|Joanna Read]].
What is known about Thomas and Alys comes from their wills, his written and proved in 1528 and hers proved in 1538. In their wills each names only three children, Henry, Jone, and Julia/Julianna. John Brooks Threlfall, ''The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury and his wife Mary Perkins,'' (Madison, Wisconsin, 1988).In Alys will her daughters are married and have children.
Thomas's Will was dated 03 Apr 1528 and he died sometime that year in Hillmorton Parish. The will was proved 21 Apr 1528 and he directs to be buried in the Church of St. John the Baptist in Hillmorton, before the Rood. His wife Alice, whose will was proved 15 Oct 1538, also requested that she be buried there.
He refers to lands and tenements in Hillmorton and Lilborne; and mentions: Thomas Gierke and Alys "my wife," executors; Henry "my son," Jone & Jelyan. "my daughters." George Cabe & Richard Smyth, Supervisors; Sir John Grendon, Vicar of Hillmorton; Sir John Stooks, Sir Thomas Bolland, William Bayle, Ric. Horne, John Compton, Roger Jones, Witnesses.(Lichfield Registry, Series 11.)See Notes of Perkins, pg 5
An old inscription of the church (Church of St. John the Baptist before the Rood) states that "In the middle ile (sic) of this Church are two grave stones of marble, each of them having small portraitures in brass of a man and a woman, with divers children; on one of them is this Inscription: Here lyeth Thomas Perkins and Alice and Elizabeth, Our Lord save their souls from everlasting death. Amen."
===Unproven ancestry===Thomas /Perkins/ was born about bout 1475 in Hillmorton Parish, Warwickshire, England to William Perkins Sr. who was still living in 1495 MORTENSEN, Paula Perkins, English Origin of Six Early Colonists by the Name of Perkins, pg 3 and his wife Johanna Read.HALL, Kristin C., Online page for [http://kristinhall.org/fambly/Perkins/ThomasPerkins2.html THOMAS PERKINS](1475-1528) - Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England Lords of Ufton, the last entry reads William Perkins, c1430 - c1495 married to Joanna Reade, 1434 -___.
== Sources ==
See also:* MORTENSEN, Paula Perkins, [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE76427 English Origin of Six Early Colonists by the Name of Perkins], Higgins Book Company, Massachusetts, 1998, pgs 3-4* HALL, Kristin C., [http://kristinhall.org/fambly/Perkins/PerkinsRegisterReport.pdf Perkins Register Report] (2004)* FORD, David Nash, [http://www.britannia.com/history/berks/gene/perkped.html Lords of Ufton: Descent of the Perkins Family of Ufton, Brimpton & Beenham], (Britannia.com, LLC, 2001)* PERKINS, D. W., compiler, [https://archive.org/details/notesonperkinsfa00perk Notes on the Perkins Families in England], Publication: n.p., Salem, Mass, 1894*Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Title: World Family Tree Vol. 4, Ed. 1 Publication: Name: Release date: August 23, 1996; Customer pedigree. Family Archive CD
[[Category: Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]
[[Category: Saint John The Baptist Church, Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]'''Thomas Perkins is the earliest proven ancestor of immigrant John Perkins. Thomas' date of birth, place of birth and parents are unknown. The surname of his wife Alys is unknown. There is no documentable evidence for parents William Perkins and Joanne Read.'''
He has been detached from [[Perkins-956|William Perkins]] and [[Read-74|Joanna Read]].
What is known about Thomas and Alys comes from their wills, his written and proved in 1528 and hers proved in 1538. In their wills each names only three children, Henry, Jone, and Julia/Julianna. John Brooks Threlfall, ''The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury and his wife Mary Perkins,'' (Madison, Wisconsin, 1988).In Alys will her daughters are married and have children.
Thomas's Will was dated 03 Apr 1528 and he died sometime that year in Hillmorton Parish. The will was proved 21 Apr 1528 and he directs to be buried in the Church of St. John the Baptist in Hillmorton, before the Rood. His wife Alice, whose will was proved 15 Oct 1538, also requested that she be buried there.
He refers to lands and tenements in Hillmorton and Lilborne; and mentions: Thomas Gierke and Alys "my wife," executors; Henry "my son," Jone & Jelyan. "my daughters." George Cabe & Richard Smyth, Supervisors; Sir John Grendon, Vicar of Hillmorton; Sir John Stooks, Sir Thomas Bolland, William Bayle, Ric. Horne, John Compton, Roger Jones, Witnesses.(Lichfield Registry, Series 11.)See Notes of Perkins, pg 5
An old inscription of the church (Church of St. John the Baptist before the Rood) states that "In the middle ile (sic) of this Church are two grave stones of marble, each of them having small portraitures in brass of a man and a woman, with divers children; on one of them is this Inscription: Here lyeth Thomas Perkins and Alice and Elizabeth, Our Lord save their souls from everlasting death. Amen."
===Unproven ancestry===Thomas /Perkins/ was born about bout 1475 in Hillmorton Parish, Warwickshire, England to William Perkins Sr. who was still living in 1495 MORTENSEN, Paula Perkins, English Origin of Six Early Colonists by the Name of Perkins, pg 3 and his wife Johanna Read.HALL, Kristin C., Online page for [http://kristinhall.org/fambly/Perkins/ThomasPerkins2.html THOMAS PERKINS](1475-1528) - Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England Lords of Ufton, the last entry reads William Perkins, c1430 - c1495 married to Joanna Reade, 1434 -___.
== Sources ==
See also:* MORTENSEN, Paula Perkins, [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE76427 English Origin of Six Early Colonists by the Name of Perkins], Higgins Book Company, Massachusetts, 1998, pgs 3-4* HALL, Kristin C., [http://kristinhall.org/fambly/Perkins/PerkinsRegisterReport.pdf Perkins Register Report] (2004)* FORD, David Nash, [http://www.britannia.com/history/berks/gene/perkped.html Lords of Ufton: Descent of the Perkins Family of Ufton, Brimpton & Beenham], (Britannia.com, LLC, 2001)* PERKINS, D. W., compiler, [https://archive.org/details/notesonperkinsfa00perk Notes on the Perkins Families in England], Publication: n.p., Salem, Mass, 1894*Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Title: World Family Tree Vol. 4, Ed. 1 Publication: Name: Release date: August 23, 1996; Customer pedigree. Family Archive CD
Events
| Birth | Abt 1458 | Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England | |||
| Marriage | 1480 | Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England - Alys Unknown | |||
| Death | Bef 21 Apr 1528 | Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England | |||
| Reference No | 788912 | ||||
| Reference No | 808553 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Alys Unknown (1461 - 1538) |
| Child | Henry Perkins (1484 - 1546) |
| Child | Joan "Jane" Perkins (1482 - ) |
| Child | Julianna "Jelyan" Perkins (1483 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Perkins (1486 - 1528) |