Ancestry of
Richard Thayer

(1624/25–1695)

Richard Thayer

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Richard Thayer 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Mortimore   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 10 Feb 1624/1625 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. Mary's Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 27 Aug 1695 
  • Death Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 
  • Tombstone Inscription at Hancock Cemetery at Quincy, Massachusetts: "HERE LYES Ye BODY OF RICHARD THAYER senior AGED 71 YEARS DECd AUGUST Ye 27 1695". Footstone inscription: "R T".

• Marriages for Richard Thayer

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  • Spouse:
  • Dorothy Pray
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Dec 1651
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Richard Thayer

  • ¹ Braintree, MA: Vital Records, 1643-1793, Vol. 1, p. 125, Marriage record for Richard Thayer and Dorathy Pray.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/16/2014).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, January 1906, Vol. 60, Page 93, [Christening].
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, January 1906, Vol. 60, Page 93, [Death].
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1906, Vol. 60, Page 291.
  • ⁶ John Adams Vinton, Vinton Memorial, (1858), 355.
  • ⁷ Pitkin, Albert Hastings, Thayer Ancestry: Supplement to the "Family Memorial of the Early Settlers of New England" . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: Privately Printed (1890), 43.
  • ⁸ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 3, The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2004), 373.