Edmund Hobart, Sr., of Hingham

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Do not confuse this Edmund/Edmond with Edward Hobart.

The parents of Edmund Hobart are unknown as of Oct 29, 2019. There has been no research shown that supports the connection of "Parents: Thomas Hobart (b abt 1531) and Helen Windsofer."as shown in a number of online profiles. There are also other parents shown on internet family trees, but to date, his parents are unknown. Please contact me if you find any proven data through recent DNA matches and/or published family histories after 2019. -Dean Hobart 10/29/2019

also known as Edmond Hubbard

However, most of the time the name is spelled as Hobart. A couple of his descendants used Hubbard, but most of the people with the Hubbard spelling are not related to this family. The Hubbards tended to land at Boston and then go to CT, western Mass, NY, and RI. These 2 George Hubbards (not known if related) are often confused as a 'son' or 'brother' of Edmund Hobart but there is no family connection known.
George Hubbard, of Wethersfield
George Hubbard, of Hartford

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Given name has also been reported to be Edward Hobart.

Date and place of birth have also been erroneously reported to be circa 1530 in Norfolk, England.

Date and place of death have also been erroneously reported to be 1600 in Norfolk, England.

Date and place of burial have also been erroneously reported to be an unspecified date in Norfolk, England.

links

• http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_213.html#P390
• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=scottmco...

content to clean up (errors, duplications, and inconsistencies remaining 7 Aug 2024)

Edmund Hobart was born 1 January 1573 in England and died 8 March 1646 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was also known as Edmond Hubbard.

Married

1. 7 Sept 1600 in Hingham, Norfolk, England [7, 3] to Margaret Dewey. She was b abt 1575 n Hingham, Norfolk, England
2. 10 October 1634 in Charlestown, Suffolk, MA [8, 9] to Sarah Oakley. She was b about 1586.

Children of Margaret Dewey and Edmund Hobart:

1. Nazareth Hobart b: ABT 1601 in Hingham, Norfolk, England
2. Edmund Hobart b: ABT 1602/3 in Hingham, Norfolk, England
3. Peter Hobart b: ABT 1604 in Hingham, Norfolk, England
4. Thomas Hobart b: 1606 in Hingham, Norfolk, England
5. Alice Hobart b: ABT 1606/7 in Hingham, Norfolk, England
6. Anthony Hobart b: ABT 1609 in Hingham, Norfolk, England
7. Edward Hobart b: ABT NOV 1610 in Hingham, Norfolk, England
8. Rebecca Hobart b: ABT DEC 1611 in Hingham, Norfolk, England
9. Joshua Hobart b: ABT 1614 in Hingham, Norfolk, England
10. Sarah Hobart b: ABT DEC 1617 in Hingham, Norfolk, England

Was there a relationship with Ralph Smith

Notes

Anderson did not offer any information as to the parents of Edmund Hobart nor a birth place. Per Anderson the offices to which he was elected and appointed and the educational attainments of his sons indicate that Edmund Hobart had received an education above the average for his time. He was a deputy for Hingham to Mass. Bay General Court, a commissioned to end small causes for Hingham and on a grand jury. He was also on a committee to levy a colony rate.

According to "Shepherd in the Wilderness," [as copied from an email posting] a biography of Peter Hobart written by Edward Franklin Ripley (2001), Edmund Hobart was the son of Thomas Hobart, Lord of the Manor in Hingham (England). According to the church records of St. Andrews Church, Thomas was married to Helen Windsofer on July 30, 1569, in Snoring Magna, Essex. He died May 30, 1603. Edmund Hobart was born or baptzed Jan.1, 1573 and succeeded his father as Lord of the Manor of Hingham , England. He married Margaret Dewey, who had also been baptized at St. Andrews. These were the parents of the Rev. Peter Hobart. This Edmund Hobart sailed to what is now Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1633 aboard the "Elizabeth Bonaventura." He, with his son, the Rev. Peter Hobart, became one of the founders of Hingham, Massachusetts. ...from Margaret Watson, descendent of Edmund Hobart...

Links

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mscheffle...

Sources

1. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633; Great migration study project (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) Page: pp.958-60
2. Title: Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633; Great migration study project (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) Page: v.2, p.959 (born about 1575)
3. Torrey, Clarence Almon with a revised introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985) Page: p.376
4. Dewey, Adelbert, Life of George Dewey Family History (Genealogylibrary.com) Page: p.1073
5. Beale, John-ex, from England to America; an extension of one line of the descendants of John Beal of Hingham, England and later of Hingham, America (Sharon Springs, Kansas, 1987)Page: p.8
6. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633; Great migration study project (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)Page: v. 2, p. 958
7. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633; Great migration study project (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
8. Page: v.2,, p.959
9. Torrey, Clarence Almon with a revised introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985) Page: p..277
10. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633; Great migration study project (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) Page: v.2, p.959

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Married 7 Sept. 1600 Hingham, Norwich, England.

Much of the text below the following line is false about Edmund Hobart's birth, parents, etc, prior to immigration. Nothing has been found to identify him prior to his marriage, and a number of citations have been proven to be false based on dates and reflections of other individuals.

Edmund Hobart, Thomas’s son, succeeded Thomas as lord of the manor of Hingham. He was born in Hingham, Norfolk County, England on January 1, 1573, baptized at St. Andrews and married Margaret Dewey, who also had been baptized at St. Andrews on September 7, 1600.

Edmund sailed for the New World on the ship, Elizabeth Bonaventure, leaving Yarmouth, Norfolk, the first week of May 1633. John Graves was the master of the ship. They arrived in Boston, June 15, carrying ninety-five passengers. Edmund settled at Charlestown, MA, with his first wife, Margaret, and their children, Rebecca, Sarah, Joshua, Nazareth, Edmond and Thomas and servant, Henry Gibbs. On March 4, 1634, Edmund Hobart took the freeman's oath and was appointed a constable for Charlestown. The family moved in September 1635 to Bear Cove, a new place twelve miles south of Boston. The name was changed to Hingham. In Hingham, Edmund became commissioner of the general court, a member of the court, a member of the committee to levy taxes and was chosen the representative of his town in the general court.

By his first wife, Margaret, Edmund was the father in England of:

1. Nazareth, 1601-1658

2. Edmund, 1604-1685 Edmund & Peter were twins.

3. Peter, 1604-1678

4. Thomas, 1606-1675

5. Mary, 1608 in England, never came to America

6. Mehetabel, 1610, in England

7. Elizabeth, 1612 in England

8. Joshua, 1614

9. Rebecca, born in England

10.Sarah, 1617, in England

After Margaret Dewey Hobart died, Edmund married the Widow Sarah Ann, the widow of Reverend John Lyford, of Plymouth, MA. 1634. He died twelve years later without further issue.

Emigration, 1633, England to Charleston, Massachusetts. 75

• Titles. 107

-Charlestown constable, 1635

-Deputy for Hingham to Massachusetts Bay General Court, 22 May 1639, 4 September 1639, 7 October 1640, 8 September 1642

-Commissioner to end small causes for Hingham, 1638, 1639, 1641

-Grand jury, 19 September 1637

-Committee to levy a colony rate, 6 June 1639

• Family Background Information.

According to "Shepherd in the Wilderness," a biography of Peter Hobart written by Edward Franklin Ripley (2001), Edmund Hobart was the son of Thomas Hobart, Lord of the Manor in Hingham (England). According to the church records of St. Andrews Church, Thomas was married to Helen Windsofer on July 30, 1569, in Snoring Magna, Essex. He died May 30, 1603. Edmund Hobart was born Jan.1, 1573 and succeeded his father as Lord of the Manor of Hingham , England. He married Margaret Dewey, who had also been baptized at St. Andrews. These were the parents of the Rev. Peter Hobart. This Edmund Hobart sailed to what is now Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1633 aboard the "Elizabeth Bonaventura." He, with his son, the Rev. Peter Hobart, became one of the founders of Hingham, Massachusetts. Margaret Watson, descendent of Edmund Hobar.

Margaret Watson from HOBART-L@rootsweb.com" mailing list

• Background Information. 637

Edmund Hobart was born in Hingham, England in 1574. He first married Margaret Dewey on 1 Sep 1600, and she was the mother of all his children. To escape the restrictions and persecutions of the Established church in England, Hobart left England in his sixtieth year for North America. Along with him were his wife, and three of their children, Rebecca, Sarah and Joshua, as well a their man servant Henry Gibbs. They left England in Mar 1633 and landed at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 3 May 1633.

Edmund is likely the first person by the name of Hobart in the Americas, and the progenitor for the name. It wasn't long after his arrive in Massachusetts that his children and their families also arrived in Massachusetts. First his son Thomas arrived with his wife and three children, then Rev. Peter Hobart, along with his wife and four children arrived on 8 Jun 1635

Edmund became a member of the Congregational Church in Charlestown, 19 Aug 1633, and took the freeman oath, 4 Mar 1634. Soon after he was appointed by the General Court as a constable of charlestown.

In Sep 1635, Edmund, his children and other friends moved to Bare Cove, a few miles south of Boston. They gave their new settlement the name of Hingham after the ancient community in Norfolk County, England.

Margaret Dewey, Edmunds wife, died at Hingham. He then married a woman named Ann who was the widow of Rev. John Lyford. Edmund died in Hingham, 8 Mar 1646.

Edmund Hobart was born January 1, 1572/73.

Many sites on the Internet claim that he is the son of Henry and Dorothy (Bell) Hobart, which is clearly false, since Dorothy was born in 1572. That provides linkage into a noble line, but there is no rationale for that, and I can find no mention of Edmund as Henry's son in any credible location.

He married Margaret Dewey September 7, 1600. Margaret was born in 1574 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England, the daughter of Robert and Margaret (Stasye) Dewey.

This family is a direct ancestor of President George W. Bush (see Special Kelly Stories) thru their daughter, Rebecca (Hubbard) Bangs. Edmund and Margaret were parents of sixteen children (again notice the name change):

George Hubbard - born 1600 - married Mary Bishop, the daughter of John and Ann (Stevens) Bishop - George died May 23, 1683, about 83 years old - direct ancestor

Nazareth Hubbard - born June 7, 1601 - she died September 23, 1658, at the age of 57

Edmund Hubbard - born January 16, 1601/02 - died February 16, 1684/85, at the age of 83

Peter Hubbard - born October 13, 1604 - died January 20, 1678/79, at the age of 74

John Hubbard - born November 13, 1604

Thomas Hubbard - born February 26, 1605/06 - died August 18, 1689, at the age of 83

Anne Hubbard - born March 22, 1606/07 - died February 28, 1631/32, at the age of 24

Mary Hubbard - born 1608 - died February 20, 1674/75 about 67 years old

Anthony Hubbard - born October 8, 1609 - died December 22, 1609, only 2 months old.

Edward Hubbard - born November 4, 1610 - died November 28, 1610, only 26 days old

Mehitable Hubbard - born 1610

Rebecca Hubbard - born December 29, 1611 - died in 1679 about 68 years old

Elizabeth Hubbard - born 1612 - died about 1654 about 42 years old

Joshua Hubbard - born October 9, 1614 - died July 28, 1682 at the age of 67

Sarah Hubbard - born December 26, 1617 - died February 20, 1673/74, at the age of 56

Benjamin Hubbard - born 1620

Edmund Hobart died March 8, 1645/46, at Hingham, Norfolk, England, at the age of 73 while his wife, Margaret (Dewey) Hobart, died June 23, 1649, in Charlestown, Suffolk, England, about 75 years old.

Edmund Hobart died March 8, 1645/46, at Hingham, Norfolk, England, at the age of 73 while his wife, Margaret (Dewey) Hobart, died June 23, 1649, in Charlestown, Suffolk, England, about 75 years old.

Bush linkage:

George W Bush

12th generation

Edmund Hobart

- Margaret Dewey

11th generation

Edward Bangs - Rebecca Hobart

10th generation

Jonathan Bangs - Mary Mayo

9th generation

Samuel Bangs - Mary Hinckley

8th generation

Joseph Bangs - Thankful Hamblen

7th generation

Lemuel Bangs

- Rebecca Keeler

6th generation

Elijah K. Bangs

- Esther Stackhouse

5th generation

Joseph Ambrose Beaky

- Mary Ann Bangs

4th generation

David Davis Walker

- Martha Adela Beaky

3rd generation

George Herbert Walker

- Lucretia Wear

2nd generation

Prescott Sheldon Bush

- Dorothy Walker

1st generation

George H.W. Bush

- Barbara Pierce

41st President

of the United States

George W. Bush - Laura Welsh

43rd President

of the United States

What is more, by confining the choices to only the ships bringing immigrants from England in 1633 reduces the possibility to even fewer people. Since his son George is well documented as a "Hubbard", I have taken that to be his father's name as well.

Edmund, his wife, Margaret, six of their children (Nazareth, Edmond, Thomas, Joshua, Rebecca and Sarah) and a man servant, Henry Gibbs, left Yarmouth, Norfolk, England the first week in May 1633 on the ship "Elizabeth Bonaventure". They arrived at Boston on June 15 with 95 passengers. They settled in Charlestown, Suffolk Co. Edmund was admitted to the church with his son, Edmund, and his wife, Elizabeth. He took the freeman's oath on March 4, 1634 and soon after was appointed by the General Court as a Constable of Charlestown, Suffolk Co. In 1635, his family, with three other married children recently arrived from England, moved to Bare Cove, a new place about 12 miles south of Boston. The residents later changed the name of the town to Hingham, after the town in England from which most of them had come.

Edmund was appointed to the Grand Jury for the year commencing on September 19, 1637. He was appointed by the General Court, on September 6, 1638, to be a commissioner to try small claims in the Town of Hingham. This appointment, equivalent to the position of justice of the peace, was renewed on May 22, 1639 and June 2, 1641. He was also appointed by the General Court, on June 16, 1639, to be a member of the committee to levy a tax of one thousand pounds on the twelve towns then organized. He was chosen to be a representative of Hingham in the General Court in 1639, 1640, 1641, and 1642.

After his first wife, Margaret Dewey, died in 1641, Edmund married, Sarah Lyford, the widow of Rev. John Lyford (also Layford and Lawford). Her maiden name is given as Sarah Oakley in LDS file AFN: WNFR-DV which also gives her birth as 1586 in England, her marriage on 10 Oct 1634 in Massachusetts, and her death on 29 Jun 1649 in Hingham, MA.

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References:

WFT CD: 003-0477574. In 1600, he married Margaret Dewey. Edmund, his wife, Margaret, six of their children (Nazareth, Edmond, Thomas, Joshua, Rebecca and Sarah) and a man servant, Henry Gibbs, left Yarmouth, Norfolk, England the first week in May 1633 on the ship "Elizabeth Bonaventure". They arrived at Boston on June 15 with 95 passengers. They settled in Charlestown, Suffolk Co.. Edmund was admitted to the church with his son, Edmund, and his wife, Elizabeth. He took the freeman's oath on March 4, 1634 and soon after was appointed by the General Court as a Constable of Charlestown, Suffolk Co.. In 1635, his family, with three other married children recently arrived from England, moved to Bare Cove, a new place about 12 miles south of Boston. The residents later changed the name of the town to Hingham, after the town in England from which most of them had come.g on September 19, 1637. He was appointed by the General Court, on September 6, 1638, to be a commissioner to try small claims in the Town of Hingham. This appointment, equivalent to the position of justice of the peace, was renewed on May 22, 1639 and June 2, 1641. He was also appointed by the General Court, on June 16, 1639, to be a member of the committee to levy a tax of one thousand pounds on the twelve towns then organized. He was chosen to be a representative of Hingham in the General Court in 1639, 1640, 1641, and 1642. After his first wife, Margaret Dewey, died in 1641, Edmund married, Sarah Lyford, the widow of Rev. John Lyford.. 2 - Savage, James - 1860-62:d Sarah, perhaps, also, Thomas, and his w. and childr. in 1633, with int. to satisfy inq. of his neighbors in old Hingham, was first at Charlestown, freem. 4 Mar. 1634, constable the same yr. went, as one of the first sett. 1635, to Hingham, was rep. 1639-42, and d. 8 Mar. 1646. Edmund, Joshua, Rev. Peter, Thomas, and two ds. I see reason to infer, that a wid. Lyford, wh. he m. late in life, was relict of that Rev. John L. who was at Plymouth the first disturber of their ch. My infer. was clear. pro. by Hist. Coll. of the Essex Inst. I. 35.

Sources:

Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts, p. 1567

Edmund Hobart, the first representative of the family in America, was

born in Hingham, Norfolk County, England, in 1573. He was a deeply

religious man who emigrated to America to escape persecut ion and to

find freedom. He arrived on the ship "Elizabeth Bonaventure", John

Graves as Master, with part of his large family. They left Yarmouth,

Norfolk, England May 16, 1633 and landed at Charlestown,

Massachusetts, in the middle of June 15, 1633. There were 95

passengers on board. Listed were Mrs. Margaret Hobart, Nazareth,

Edmund, Thomas, Joshua, Rebecca and Sarah Hobart.

Edmund Hobart was born in Hingham, Norfolk County, England, about

1574, and died in Hingham, Massachusetts, March 8, 1648, aged

seventy-four. In May, 1633, he arrived at Charlestown. With him or soon

after came his wife, four sons, three daughters, several grandchildren,

and his servant Henry Gibbs. He was made a freeman March 4, 1734, and

admitted to full communion the First Church of Christ in Boston, Aughts

9, 1734, and stoodNo . 15 the freeman's list, and was one of ten citizens

who with Increase Nowell, October 13, 1634, agreed that only desirable

persons should be allowed to "sit downe and dwell in the towne". He was

constable of Charlestown in 1635. This same year he removed to Bear

Cove (Hingham); he assisted in organizing the F irst Church there of

which his son Peter was the first minister, and was made a

commissioner, September 6, 1638, the functions being similar to those

of a justice of the peace nowadays, permitting him to officiate at

marriage ceremonies, a privilege then denied to many ministers. He was

deputy to the general court in 1639-40-41-42, and was generally spoken

of as "Edmund Hubbard theelde r." He married(first) Margaret Dewey, born

in England, in 1597. She died in 1641, aged forty-four. He married

(second) Ann (or Sarah), the widow of Rev. Jo hn Lyford, an Episcopal

clergyman.

Edmond Hobart immigrated to America with his wife and the following children, daughters Nazareth, Alice, Rebecca, and Sarah, and sons, Peter, Joshua, Thomas, and Edmund.

They arrived in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

source publication: The Great Immigration Begins, Immigrants to New England, by Robert Charles Anderson. Page 958.

The map shows where they settled.

• EDMUND HOBART
• ORI GIN: Hingham, Norfolk
• MIGRATION: 1633
• FIRST RESIDENCE: Charlestown
• REMOVES: Hingham 1635
• CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Edmond Hubbard Senior" admitted to Charlestown church, 19 October 1633 [ChChR 8].
• FREEMAN: 4 March 1633/4 (as "Edmond Hubbert") [MBCR 1:368].
• EDUCATION: The offices to which he was elected and appointed and the educational attainments of his sons indicate that Edmund Hobart had received an education above the average for his time.
• OFFICES: Charlestown constable, 1635 [ChTR 12; MBCR 1:134]; lotlayer and assessor, 9 January 1633/4 [ChTR 10]. Deputy for Hingham to Massachusetts Bay General Court, 22 May 1639, 4 September 1639, 7 October 1640, 8 September 1642 [MBCR 1:255, 271, 301: 2:23]. Commissioner to end small causes for Hingham, 1638, 1639, 1641 [MBCR 1:239, 259, 329]. Grand jury, 19 September 1637 [MBCR 1:203]. Committee to levy a colony rate, 6 June 1639 [MBCR1:260].
• ESTATE: Surrendered five acres Mystic Side in Charlestown, 1635 [ChTR 14]. Had a proportion of 4½ in the hayground in Charlestown, which was increased to 5½, 1635 [ChTR 19, 20]. "Edmund Hobart" was one who drew his houselot at Hingham 18 September 1635 [NEHGR 2:250]. Although there are no records that purport to be the settlement of Edmund's estate at his death, the grant by Peter Hubbard of Hingham to his brother Thomas Hubbard of Hingham of "ten acres of land... also twenty acres of land with five acres of meadow ... also one great lot containing thirty acres ... all which was granted by a deed of sale dated 20 November 1647" may have had some relation to Edmund's estate, perhaps left in the hands of his son Rev. Peter, who evidently kept his step-mother for several years after Edmund's death [SLR 1:89].
• BIRTH: About 1575 based on date of marriage.
• DEATH: Hingham 8 March 1646[/7] "father Hubbeard died" [NEHGR 121:18].
• MARRIAGE: (1) Hingham, Norfolk, 7 September 1600 Margaret Dewey. She died before October 1634 when her husband remarried. It is not certain that she survived to come to New England, especially since she did not join the Charlestown church with her husband on 19 October 1633 [ChChR 8]. (2) Charlestown 10 October 1634 Sarah (_____) (Lyford) Oakley [WP 3:174], born about 1586 (deposed 1 August 1639 aged "about fifty-three years" [WP 4:137]), widow of Rev. JOHN LYFORD. She died Hingham 23 June 1649 ("mother Hobart died in the eveningbeing Saturday, buried on the Sabbath") [NEHGR 121:22]. (Edmund Hobart was guardian to the children of his second wife, and was otherwise involved in securing their inheritance from their father.)

CHILDREN (all baptized Hingham, Norfolk [TAG 27:94-95]):

• i NAZARETH, bp. 7 June 1601; m. (1) Hingham, Norfolk, 9 November 1626 Robert Turner; m. (2) Hingham, Norfolk, 13 July 1630 as his second wife John Beal. John Beal m. (3) Hingham 10 March 1658/9 Mary (Gilman) Jacob [NEHGR2:253], widow of NICHOLAS JACOB.
• ii EDMUND, bp. 16 January 1602/3; m. Hingham, Norfolk, 18 October 1632 Elizabeth Elmer.
• iii PETER, bp. 13 October 1604; m. (1) Covehithe, Suffolk, 12 October 1628Rebecca Ibrook [TAG 67:28], daughter of Richard Ibrook; m. (2) say 1646Rebecca Peck, daughter of Joseph Peck (after his first wife's delivery of her last child in December 1645 [TAG 27:94]).
• iv THOMAS, bp. 23 February 1605/6; m. (1) Wymondham, Norfolk, 2 June 1629 Anne Plomer; m. (2) Jane _____, who d. as his widow on 18 February 1690 [Hingham Hist 2:336; TAG 27:95].
• v ALICE, bp. 22 March 1606/7; m. Hardingham, Norfolk, 28 February 1631/2 Thomas Chubbuck.
• vi ANTHONY, bp. 8 October 1609; bur. 22 December 1609.
• vii EDWARD, bp. 4 November 1610; bur. 28 November 1610.
• viii REBECCA, bp. 29 December 1611; admitted to Charlestown church 27 [blank] 1633 [ChChR 8]; no further record. (See the sketch of EDWARD BANGSfor discussion of the claim that this Rebecca became his wife.)
• ix JOSHUA, bp. 9 October 1614; admitted to Charlestown church 27 [blank] 1633 [ChChR 8]; m. Cambridge March 1637/8 Ellen Ibrook, daughter of Richard Ibrook [NEHGR 2:252].
• x SARAH, bp. 26 December 1617; no further record.

COMMENTS: In June 1633 "Edmond Hubbert Senior & his 2 sons Edmond & Joshua Hubert" were admitted as inhabitants at Charlestown [ChTR 9], and on 9 January 1633/4 and January 1635/6 they appear on lists of inhabitants in Charlestown [ChTR 10, 15]. On 5 June 1638 "Edmond Hubberd, Senior, was fined 40s. for leaving a pit open, in which a child was drowned" [MBCR 1:233]; 30s. of this fine was remitted in the general amnesty of 6 September 1638 [MBCR 1:245]. In the fall of 1639 Thomas Hamond of Hingham sued Edmund Hubbard for trespass "in his Indian corn since planting time till now to the value of 50s. in his corn ground at Hingham" [Lechford 175].

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES: In 1951 Clarence Almon Torrey summarized the family of Edmund Hobart, with inclusion of all the English records known at that time [TAG 27:94-95]. Rev. Peter Hobart maintained a record of many of the vital events occurring in Hingham during his lifetime, and this was published in 1967 [NEHGR 121:3-25, 102-27, 191-216, 269-94].

Edmund Hobart

• Birth: 1575, England
• Death: Mar. 8, 1646 Hingham Plymouth County Massachusetts, USA

Born about 1575, based on date of marriage. Came from Hingham, Norfolk to Charlestown MA in 1633. (An Edmund Hobart, son of Thomas & Hellena Hubbard, was baptized at Snoring Magna, Norfolk, on 1 Jan 1573. This would be about the right year of birth for the immigrant, & the immigrant did name a son Thomas, but Snoring Magna is some distance from Hingham in Norfolk, so further evidence would be welcome.) Removed to Hingham in 1635. Died there, 8 March 1646[/7] "father Hubbeard died."

Married (1) to Margaret Dewey in Hingham, Norfolk, England, 7 September 1600 . She died before October 1634 when her husband remarried. They had ten children in Hingham, Norfork, England. It is not certain that she survived to come to New England, especially since she did not join the Charlestown church with her husband on 19 October 1633.

Married (2) in Charlestown 10 October 1634, Sarah (_____) (Lyford) Oakley, born about 1586 (deposed 1 August 1639 aged "about fifty-three years," widow of Rev. JOHN LYFORD . She died Hingham 23 June 1649 ("mother Hobart died in the evening being Saturday, buried on the Sabbath"). (Edmund Hobart was guardian to the children of his second wife, and was otherwise involved in securing their inheritance from their father.) Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ship_Church,Edmund Hobart is buried at Old Ship Burying Ground in Hingham, Massachusetts

Find A Grave contributor Darrel Salisbury adds: Snoring Magna (Great Snoring) is c 20 mi. N of Hingham, Attleborough is c 4 mi. S of Hingham. There is a Little Snoring, c. 2 mi. S of Great Snoring. These communities were prob. closer together in the 17th century than they are on today's road maps.

Family links:

Spouses:

• Margaret Dewey Hobart (1574 - ____)
• Sarah Lyford Hobart (1586 - 1649)

Children:

• Nazareth Hobart Beal (1601 - 1658)*
• Edmund Hobart (1602 - 1686)*
• Peter Hobart (1604 - 1679)*
• Thomas Hobart (1605 - 1689)*
• Alice Hobart Chubbock (1606 - 1674)*
• Anthony Hobart (1609 - 1609)*
• Edward Hobart (1610 - 1610)*
• Rebecca Hobart? Bangs (1611 - 1655)*
• Joshua Hobart (1614 - 1682)*
• Sarah Hobart (1617 - ____)

Burial: Hingham Cemetery Hingham Plymouth County Massachusetts, USA Created by: Linda Mac Record added: Mar 11, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 34697261

Immigration 1632-3

This story has two parts, the sacred and the profane. First the sacred part, the Hobarts led a large part of Hingham, Norfolk, England to Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Edmund’s son Peter was minister in Hingham for 44 years. The Old Ship Church, completed a couple of years after Peter’s death is the oldest continuous house of worship in the United States. It’s the only existing example of a Hammerbeam roof left in the United States, in my view architecturally beautiful. Westminster Hall is the most famous example. Edmund’s second wife’s first husband represents the profane part.

Edmund Hobart was born about 1575 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. His parents may have been Thomas HOBART and Audrey HARE. An Edmund Hobart, son of Thomas & Hellena Hubbard, was baptized at Snoring Magna, Norfolk, on 1 Jan 1573. This would be about the right year of birth for the immigrant, & the immigrant did name a son Thomas, but Snoring Magna is some distance from Hingham in Norfolk, so further evidence would be welcome. Edmund Hobart first married Margaret DEWEY on 7 Sep 1600 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Edmund and Margaret immigrated in 1633. Their children Edmund, Thomas, Alice, Rebecca, Joshua and Sarah traveled with them. After Margaret died, he married Sarah Oakley on 10 Oct 1634 in Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, now Plymouth County. Sarah was the widow of Rev. John Lyford. Edmund Hobart died on 8 March 1646 in Hingham, Mass.

Margaret Dewey died circa 1633 at Charlestown, Suffolk, Mass. It is not certain that she survived to come to New England, especially since she did not join the Charlestown church with her husband on 19 Oct 1633.

Sarah Oakley was born about 1586 (deposed 1 August 1639 aged “about fifty-three years,” ) she was the widow of Rev. John Lyford.

Hobart History and Benealogy 1632- 1912 by Edwin Lucius Hobart.

   [Edmund Hobart] arrived in this country from Hingham, Norfolk, England, in 1632, where he was born in 1574, and died at Hingham, Mass., March 8, 1648. He arrived with his wife, son Joshua, daughters Rebekah and Sarah, and servant, Henry Gibbs, in May 1633, and settled in Charlestown, Mass.  He was made a freeman Marach 4, 1633-4 and admitted to full communion in the Flirst Church of Christ in Boston, August 19, 1633-4, and stood No. ’15′ on the ‘freeman’s list’, and was one of ten citizens, October 13, 1634, who, with Increase Nowell, agreed that only certain desirable persons should be allowed to ‘sit downe and dwell in the towne’. In 1635 he was the constable of Charlestown. This same year he removed to Bear Cove (Hingham) and assisted in organizing the first church there, of which his son Peter was the first minister, and was made a commissioner September 6, 1638, the functions being similar to those of a Justice of Peace nowadays, permitting him to officiate at marriage ceremonies, a privilege then denied to many ministers. He was Deputy to General Court in 1639-40-41-42, and was generally spoken of as ‘Edmund Hubbard, the Elder’. “Edmund Hobart’s second wife, Ann, was the widow of Rev. John Lyford, an Episcopal clergyman from Laughgaid, Ardmagh, Ireland, who was banished from Plymouth Colony in 1624. She was a ‘grave matron and of good carriage’ and died June 23 1649.

The author of "One thousand years of Hubbard history" claims that the Hubbards and Hobarts are descended from the Norse Sea-King Hubba, who ravaged portions of France and England in the latter half of the ninth century.

• Reference: MyHeritage Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 14 2018, 18:43:36 UTC