Capt. Thomas Osborne of Coxendale - Captain Thomas Osborne's wives?

Started by Dan Cornett on Thursday, May 7, 2015
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Besides the current 'parent conflict' on the daughter Joane, the dates & names of the wives seem to be a bit incongruous ... (unlikely to be 3 with that mix of names & dates, perhaps?)

... And none of the 3 wives are listed here (starting fresh on research)

The first reference to Lt. Thomas Osborne is his arrival in Virginia in November 1619 on the ship Bona Nova. He was 35, making his birth year about 1584 in England. He is probably the first Osborne to arrive in America and is probably of the Sir Edward Osborne family of London, but no proof yet exists. He came to Virginia as part of a group sent by the London Company to set up a College at Henrico for the purpose of educating the Indians and others. After leading a counterattack on the Indians after the 1622 raid, he was promoted to Captain and is mostly known as Captain Thomas Osborne of Henrico, VA. He patented land on the James River just north of Henricus, VA, which became known as Coxendale, where his family lived for five generations before beginning their migration south into NC and SC. There is still a Coxendale Road in Chester, VA which leads to the general vicinity of the old Coxendale plantation. There are many known living descendants of Captain Thomas Osborne, identified by both documented records and dna tests. (By Tom Osborne)

http://home.att.net/~osborne-origins2/linkrecs/eaa.htm#Thomas-4135
http://www.genfan.com/getperson.php?personID=I10208
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/henrico/bios/earlyfam.txt

More reading ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Osborne (no son Thomas)

And about the "daughter" Joane (Osborne) Harris

http://www.familycousin.com/ralphwaite/osborn/osbornbits.htm

Now, there is nothing to prove that either wife was actually named
Osborne or that he married a daughter of Thomas Osborne.  This seems to
have been first speculated in a Ligon genealogy published in 1947.
Records on Thomas Osborne really don't show any daughter.  There are no
records that show a direct connection between Capt. Thomas Harris and
Capt. Thomas Osborne.  All you can really say is that they were in the
same place, at the same time, doing the same thing.  They obviously knew
each other and were probably close friends.  But settling this debate is
not important to the theory, because all we want to do is show there was
an obvious Virginia connection between Capt. Thomas Harris and Thomas
Osborne which I think everyone can agree did occur.

In England, we have two very interesting records that have surfaced.  The
Middlesex Marriage Index database can now be found online at GENUKI.  In
it are the two following marriage records:

Thomas Osborne married Agneta Haiwarde, 28 Jan 1571, Edmonton, Middlesex.
Thomas Harris married Agneta Osborne, 2 July 1587, Edmonton, Middlesex.

Thomas Osborne is listed as being born in 1577 and living at Little
Hadham right on the border of Hertfordshire and Essex near Ware.  This is
about twenty miles up the River Lea from Edmonton.  Capt. Thomas Harris
is listed as being 38 in the February 1625 (1624/25) muster so he
calculates to being born in 1586 or 1587.  If we fudge just a little for
inaccurate ages back then, we could make a case for speculating that
Capt. Thomas Harris and Thomas Osborne might have been half brothers.
Without incorporating the fudge factor, they still could have been
stepbrothers.  But again, this is pure speculation.

There is another really wild idea you can find online at LDS FamilySearch that has absolutely no backup from any record sources.  Supposedly, there was an Edward Osborne born c1533 who married an Anne Gurganey and had a son Thomas Osborne.  The generational timing works out perfectly for this to be the Thomas Osborne in the marriage record in 1571.  This could suggest the possibility that the Harris, Gurganey, and Osborne families were all interrelated back in England.

Looking like the wife should be Martha Jones, widow of John Branch?

https://alliedfamilies.wordpress.com/early-virginia-jones-families/

Thomas Jones, II married Mary Repps and died before 1674.   They were the parents of Elizabeth Jones who married Philip Turpin; Martha Jones who married first John Branch then Thomas Osborne; Repps Jones; and Thomas Jones, III.

Repps Jones’ will was filed in Henrico County in 1689.  ... To his sister Martha Osborne he left 20 shillings to buy a ring

DNA studies

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tlosborne/Ausburn...
http://www.osborne-origins.org/linkrecs/f1095.htm#R4096

Also http://www.virginians.com/redirect.htm?topics&o

"No evidence remains that my wife came to the Colony with me, and if we had any daughters, their names have been lost. My son Thomas followed me to the Colony in the Francis Bonaventure in August 1620, and another son may have been Edward, but he left no heirs."

And for the record -

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tlosborne/Ausburn...
R1b1b2

The widow Martha Jones Branch belongs to Thomas son of the immigrant, it looks like. ?

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