1684 "Octob. 19. Elizabeth and Rebekah, daughters of Rebekah Henly," were baptized at Boston Old South Church. [1]
1686 "Sept. 19. Rebekah Henly" was admitted as a member of Boston Old South Church. [2] [3]
Research Notes:
Handley Chipman states, [4]
My Grand-father, Thomas Handley ... I have been informed came from London, that vast City, great in Number of houses and Exceeding Numerious in Inhabitants who carry on a very Extensive trade and traffick with almost all parts of the World ... He came to Boston in New England but whether direct from London or not I cannot tell, for I find he married a Woman, whose maiden name was Rebecca Young, born and brought up in the Island of Burmudas, and whether my Grandfather Handley married her on Said Island or not I cannot find out. Be that as it will, I understand by certain Information they lived in said Boston. He followed I think the London Trade was Capt. of a Ship, and in his Last Voyage was Lost at Sea, and never heard of, but whether going from Boston to old England or coming home I cannot tell. But this is certain he had when he was Lost but one Surviving Child, which was my dear beloved Mother who was a Member of Doctr. Colemans Church in said Boston, as was her Mother also, I believe ...I suppose My Grandfather Thos. Handley Lived in good fashion in Boston, as he and his wife Left to my dear Mother a considerable number of Siver Utensals, as a Tankard, which I now have as well as Porengers, Spoons, Cups, &c. and a very Large Silver headed Cain, &c. and my sister had most of Said Utensils, She being named after her Grandmother Handley, &c.
1639 A Thomas Handley, son of Richard and Frances Handley ("filius Ri'di et Francisca Handley") was baptized on April 28 in Kings Sutton, Northamptonshire. [5] Richard and Frances Hanley had nine additional children baptized in Kings Sutton 1636-1653 and a Frances Hanley was buried there in 1683.
1653/54 A boy named Thomas Hanley, son of John Hanley, Vintner of Bister, Oxfordshire, was apprenticed to John Powell of the Company of Clothworkers of London, on January 11. [6]
1656 A boy named Thomas Handley, son of Richard Hanley, labourer of King Sutton, Northamptonshire, was apprenticed to Thomas Chapman, Clothworker in Campion Lane, London, for 7 years on Nov 4. [7]
1660 Thomas Hanley received freedom by servitude in the Company of Clothworkers of London. His master was Jno. Powell. [8]
1663/4 Thomas Handley received freedom by servitude in the Company of Clothworkers in London on January 27. His master was Thomas Chapman. [9]
1669 Thomas Hanley, Clothworker of Morefeilds, London, master, accepted an apprentice, Richard Manard, son of Henry Manard, husbandman of Hanslup, Buckinghamshire, deceased, on June 8. [10]
A boy named Thomas Handley was admitted to the Merchant Taylors' School in London 11 March 1663/64. No birth date is listed for Thomas. Other boys admitted at the same time were born between 11 Feb. 1647 and 14 Dec. 1656. The Merchant Taylors' School was a grammar school founded in 1560 to prepare scholars for St. John's College, Oxford, which was founded by Sir Thomas White of the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1557. [11]
A Thomas Handley is listed among the donors to the building of the Merchant Taylors' School Library in 1662 (11 June). He donated 4 £. [12]
A Handley family appears in the records of West Hallam, Derbyshire at about this time. "1633[/34] January 10 Maria filia Thomae et Margareta Handley baptizata fuit" [p. 101]; "Aprill 4 Thomas Hauley [listed as Handley in index] aliis Shaldley, familius Mrs. Cossand, Powth : et Margaretta Hutchinson de West Hall, filia Walteri, Nepti fuere in Ecclecia West Hallu[m] inter horis nona et undina ante meridie die p'di" listed under a heading that reads, "Weddings, Nuptials--1638, Henry Holmes, Rect'," but just before an undated baptism and then a baptism for 1631 and then a list of burials starting in 1623 [p. 103]; "Bap. Franciscus filiu(s) Thomi et Margareta Hanly baptizatus fuit decimo quinto die Augusti an(no) 1639" [p.102]; "Mary, daughter of Thomas Handley and Ester his wife bap. Jan : 26, 1654" [p. 107]; "Margaret daughter of Tho. Handley and Ester his wife baptized Sept. 12, 1659" [p. 108] "East the wife of Thomas Handley junr. was buried June 28th 1666" [p. 112]; "Thomas Handley buried October ye 12th 1671" [p. 114]; "1673 Thomas the son of Tho. and Elizabeth Handley baptized March 15th" [p. 114] [13]
A Thomas Handley was admitted as a freeman of York in 1629-30. "Per Patres, Thomas Handley, generosus, fil. Godfridi Handley, tanner [p. 82]." In 1636, Thomas Handley, gent. appears in the list of men (aldermen?) (starting with the mayor) which preceeds the list of freemen admitted that year [p. 89]. Godfrid Handley, tanner, was admitted in 1600-01 [p. 46]. "Pett. (sic), tanner" was admitted in 1638-39 [p. 94]. "Joh. Handlay, parchmentmaker" was admitted in 1569 [p. 11]. [14]
Vol. I of the Register of the Freemen of the City of York, 1272-1558 [Publications of the Surtees Society, Vol. XCVI, 1896] lists "Thomas Handley, phisicus" admitted 1475-76 [p. 196] and "Johannes Handley, tanner" admitted 1505-06 [p. 230].
43 Elizabeth, Godfrid Handley was a tanner. [15]
12 Charles I, Thomas Handley was a gentleman. [16]
[1] Boston Old South Church, Baptisms, 1669-1875, [URL].
[2] Boston Old South Church, Admissions, 1669-1855, [URL].
[3] Old South Church in Boston, The Form of Covenant, of the Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, with Lists of the Founders, the Pastors, the Ruling Elders and Deacons, and the Members (Boston: Crocker and Brewster, Printers, 1833), 13, [GoogleBooks].
[4] Mrs. Arthur James Trethewey, "A Chipman Family History," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 91 (1937), 159-176, at 165-66. Images of Handley Chipman's family memoir are available in the Digital Collections of the Acadia University Library, [AmericanAncestors], [Acadia_University].
[5] Northamptonshire Record Office, 188P/231, King Sutton, Northamptonshire, Parish Register, 1614-1639, Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1558-1812, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[6] Records of London's Livery Companies Online, Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900, [London_Livery_Online].
[7] Records of London's Livery Companies Online, Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900, [London_Livery_Online].
[8] Records of London's Livery Companies Online, Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900, [London_Livery_Online].
[9] Records of London's Livery Companies Online, Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900, [London_Livery_Online].
[10] Records of London's Livery Companies Online, Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900, [London_Livery_Online].
[11] Rev. Charles John Robinson, A Register of the Scholars Admitted Into Merchant Taylors' School: From A. D. 1562 to 1874, Compiled from Authentic Sources and Edited with Biographical Notices, Vol. 1 (Lewes: Farncombe & Co., 1882), 268, [GoogleBooks].
[12] Merchant Taylors' School, Librorum Impressorum, qui in Bibliotheca Scholae Mercatorum Scissorum Adservantur, Catalogue (London, 1826), 6, [GoogleBooks].
[13] Charles Kerry, "A Literal Transcript of the Oldest Register of West Hallum, Derbyshire," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 9 (1887), 94-117, at 94-117, [HathiTrust].
[14] Francis Collins, Register of the Freemen of the City of York, From the City Records, Vol. II, 1559-1759 (Publications of the Surtees Society, Vol. CII, 1900), 82, [GoogleBooks].
[15] Francis Collins, Register of the Freemen of the City of York, From the City Records, Vol. II, 1559-1759 (Publications of the Surtees Society, Vol. CII, 1900), 46, [GoogleBooks].
[16] Francis Collins, Register of the Freemen of the City of York, From the City Records, Vol. II, 1559-1759 (Publications of the Surtees Society, Vol. CII, 1900), 89, [GoogleBooks].