Richard Topping married (1) By November 1633 (and by 1623 if the earlier children are hers) Judith _____, who died at Boston in 1635 (day and month not given.
Assuming they married by 1623, they had 5 or 6 children: Richard, two unnamed children (see below), (possibly) John born say 1629, another unnamed child born say 1631 (see below), & Timothy.
Richard Topping names four children in his will, and indicates that there are four more in New England. A John Topping begins to appear in the Boston records the year that Richard disappears, and perhaps was a son, although nothing but geography and the similarity in names supports this assumption. The other three children in New England could be married daughters for whose later identities no further clues have been discovered. An alternate interpretation of Richard's will would be that the four children in New England were step-children, but since we know next to nothing about Alice, the second wife, or about Judith, the first wife, for that matter, this is a difficult issue to resolve.
Assuming they married by 1623, they had 5 or 6 children: Richard, two unnamed children (see below), (possibly) John born say 1629, another unnamed child born say 1631 (see below), & Timothy.
Richard Topping names four children in his will, and indicates that there are four more in New England. A John Topping begins to appear in the Boston records the year that Richard disappears, and perhaps was a son, although nothing but geography and the similarity in names supports this assumption. The other three children in New England could be married daughters for whose later identities no further clues have been discovered. An alternate interpretation of Richard's will would be that the four children in New England were step-children, but since we know next to nothing about Alice, the second wife, or about Judith, the first wife, for that matter, this is a difficult issue to resolve.
Richard Topping married (1) By November 1633 (and by 1623 if the earlier children are hers) Judith _____, who died at Boston in 1635 (day and month not given.
Assuming they married by 1623, they had 5 or 6 children: Richard, two unnamed children (see below), (possibly) John born say 1629, another unnamed child born say 1631 (see below), & Timothy.
Richard Topping names four children in his will, and indicates that there are four more in New England. A John Topping begins to appear in the Boston records the year that Richard disappears, and perhaps was a son, although nothing but geography and the similarity in names supports this assumption. The other three children in New England could be married daughters for whose later identities no further clues have been discovered. An alternate interpretation of Richard's will would be that the four children in New England were step-children, but since we know next to nothing about Alice, the second wife, or about Judith, the first wife, for that matter, this is a difficult issue to resolve.
Assuming they married by 1623, they had 5 or 6 children: Richard, two unnamed children (see below), (possibly) John born say 1629, another unnamed child born say 1631 (see below), & Timothy.
Richard Topping names four children in his will, and indicates that there are four more in New England. A John Topping begins to appear in the Boston records the year that Richard disappears, and perhaps was a son, although nothing but geography and the similarity in names supports this assumption. The other three children in New England could be married daughters for whose later identities no further clues have been discovered. An alternate interpretation of Richard's will would be that the four children in New England were step-children, but since we know next to nothing about Alice, the second wife, or about Judith, the first wife, for that matter, this is a difficult issue to resolve.
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