Thomas Kilbourne - Wood Ditton vs Woodditton

Private User

12/19/2022 at 5:07 PM

Perhaps confusion begins with the name of the Ecclesiastical Parish: "Ditton Wood St. Mary" https://ukga.org/index.php?pageid=853

I think the town was never named Wood Ditton as evidenced below:

* Woodditton: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol10/pp78-86
* Woodditton: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Woodditton,+Newmarket,+UK//@52.1961...
* Woodditton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodditton

Private User

12/19/2022 at 5:27 PM

The burial locale is historically impossible. He may have been buried in what would later become Litchfield the town or Litchfield the county, but neither existed at the time.
First: No counties existed in Connecticut Colony until 1666.
Second: Litchfield (town) founded 1719 – originally "Bantam Township"
Third: Litchfield County founded 1751

Before 1719, the the Paugussett had controlled the region.

If he was killed and buried where Litchfield county would later be named, the generic name we in Connecticut call the region nowadays is the "Northwest Hills".

Erica Howton C

12/19/2022 at 5:45 PM

Hi Private User

We use modern day locations for burial so people can find the cemetery.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81523815/thomas-kilbourne currently shows as buried at

Ancient Burying Ground
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

But doesn’t cite it or show a tombstone.

What I’ll do until someone can clarify with a record is remove altogether.

Death location (which we do try to show with the historic place) is Wethersfield, but it looks like date is uncertain?

Erica Howton C

12/19/2022 at 6:16 PM

Anderson’s Great Migration Project sketch:

https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000189930698937

Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005.

https://www.americanancestors.org/DB394/i/12108/149/23896612

Has him baptized at Wood Ditton.

I’ll look for the baptism record.

Erica Howton C

12/19/2022 at 6:28 PM

No image.

"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J949-8NP : 18 September 2020), Thomas Kilborne, 1578.
Indexed Information
Thomas Kilborne
Vital • England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
EDIT
Name Thomas Kilborne
Sex Male
Christening Date 8 May 1578
Christening Place Croydon cum Clapton, Cambridgeshire, England
Christening Place (Original) Ditton Wood, Cambridge, England
Father's Name John Kilborne
Father's Sex Male
Event Type Christening

Private User

12/19/2022 at 7:01 PM

Okay

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