Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the ...

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Felsted, who brought a suit for the recovery of money due him from one
Bartholomew Barber, thus bringing the record near to the time when the
" Hall " passed from the name of Olmsted. It might be possible to find
soniething in the Manor Rolls of the Earls of Oxford, if they exist for the
period, also in the Feet of Fines, relating to the transfer of lands in all parts
of the country.
Proofs of the truth of the foregoing statements
Fairsted Church Record^
Buried: 3d March, 1627, Faith, dau. of James Olmsted; 14th February,
1609, Frances, dau. of James Olmsted.
Baptized children of James Olmsted: Mabel, 30th September, 1610;
(Emigrant) Nicholas, 15th February, 1612; James, 22d January, 1615; (Emigrant)
Nehemiah, 10th November, 1618; Mary, 18th April, 1621. Buried:
Mabel, dau. of James Olmsted, 18th February, 1621; Mary, dau. of James
Olmsted, 24th April, 1621; Joyce, wife of James Olmsted, 21st April, 1621.
Baptized children of Richard Olmsted: Mary, 6th July, 1615; (Emigrant)
John, 16 February, 1617; Sara, 2d November, 1620; Joseph, 2d December,
1627. Buried: Richard Olmsted, 16th November, 1641; Frances Olmsted
(wife of Richard), 10th September, 1630.
Great Leighs Church Records
James Olmsted and Jane Bristow, married 12th August, 1576. Baptized:
Thomas, 7th June, 1577; Richard, 22d March, 1579; James, 4th December,
1580; Elizabeth, 2d September, 1582; Nicholas, 24th November,
1583; Mary, 10th October, 1585; Mabell, 16th July, 1587; Elizabeth, 2d November,
1589; John, 20th February, 1592-3; Mary, 15th December, 1593;
Thomas (twin), 15th December, 1593. Buried: EUzabeth, dau. of James
Olnisted, 19th December, 1582; Mary, dau. of James Olmsted, 22d December,
1594; James Olmsted, 2d December, 1595. Married: Thomas Olmsted and
Margaret Sache, 4th February, 1599; James Olmsted and Joyce Cornish, 26th
October, 1605.
Children of the sons of James and Jane Bristow Olmsted: Thomas, born
7th June, 1577; married, 4th February, 1599, Margaret Sache. Children:
Jane, baptized, 7th September, 1603; died young; Thomas, baptized, 21st
June, 1606; buried 12th November, 1606; John, baptized, 9th November,
1607; died young; Elizabeth; John Olmsted, baptized 20th February, 1592-3,
married, 25th April, 1623, Deborah Robinson, dau. of the incumbent of Fairsted
parish. Children: Catherine, John, Samuel, James, EUzabeth.
WILLS
Commissary ofLondonfor Essex and Herts, 2Qth May, 1592
Abstract of the will of James Hampstead of Much Leighs, County Essex,
yeoman. To Thomas Hampstead, my oldest son, land &c in Braintre Manor,
called Lowes pasture, containing 16 acres and a rod Calves Croft, 3 acres, a
meadow called Alms House, &c.
To Richard my second son tenements called Fords and Marshalls and
26 acres of land in my occupation and that of John Allen, joyner.