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Priscilla Whitehead

Female - Bef 1632


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  • Name Priscilla Whitehead 
    Gender Female 
    Died Bef 6/06 Feb 1631/2  Braintree, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2381  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Geoffery Loomis or Lomas,   b. Bef 1567, of Thaxted, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 15 Oct 1625, Braintree, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 58 years) 
    Married Bef 1618  of Braintree, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1391  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The surname Whitehead may be speculative.

      2. The probate of Priscilla Loomis was presented in the Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London for the counties of Essex and Hartford. From the book "The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis, who Came from Braintree, England, in the Year 1638 and Settled in Windsor, CT, in 1639," by Elias Loomis (Yale Professor), 1880, v. 1, pp. 10-14:
      "In the same Court, on 15 Oct 1625, letters to administer the estate of Geoffery Lomas, of Braintree, co. Essex, were granted to his widow Priscilla.
      In the same court, on 6 Feb 1631-2, letters to administer the estate of Priscilla Loomys alias Whitehead, of Braintree, co. Essex, were granted to John Lunt, of Braintree, tailor, curator and guardian assigned of Priscilla Loomys, daughter of deceased, then aged 14 years and upwards.
      The name Loomis (with its variations of spelling Lomas, Lomys, etc.) seldom occurs on any of the public records of this period in the neighborhood of London. It does not occur in the calendars of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, or in that of the Commissary Court of London from 1585 to 1650. In the Consistory Court of London there are no wills of the Loomis name from 1362 to 1720, and the will of John Loomis given above is the only one proved in the Commissary Courts of Essex and Hertz.
      We learn from the [will of] John Loomis of Braintree, England, died between April 14 and May 29, 1619. He left a wife Agnes, an only son Joseph, and four daughter all married, viz: Ann Warr, Sarah Burton, Elizabeth wife of William Preston, and Jane Pengelly. Whether Georffrey Lomas was related to John Loomis is not known, but it is noticeable that John Lunt who occupied John Loomis' house in 1619 was witness to his will, was also adminstrator of the estate of Priscilla Loomys and guardian of her daughter."

      BURIAL:
      1. The book "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America," by Elias Loomis, Berea, Ohio, third (1908) edition, pp. 108-110:
      "Here without St. Michael's, Braintree, were laid in consecrated ground, Joseph's father, his mother and his probable brother [or uncle in my opinion] Geoffrey and sister-in-law [or aunt in my opinion], Priscilla... No word, no mark, no stone or brass - nothing whatever remains today, either within or without the church, to show that any of these poeple ever here lived and died. Scarce two acres is the churchyard, yet within this space have been placed the thousands of the parish dead for nigh a thousand years. This ground has been buried full over and over again; interment has been put upon interment, - stone upon stone. All is confusion, - hopeless and hapless...
      The records of baptisms, marriages and burials now exist only back to 1660."