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View Tree for Thomas PraterThomas Prater (b. May 06, 1573, d. 1628)

Thomas Prater (son of Anthony Thomas Prater and Judith Ivye) was born May 06, 1573 in Staunton, St. Bernard, Wiltshire, England, and died 1628 in Eaton Water Wiltshire, England. He married Margaret Quintyne on June 04, 1599 in Clyffe Pypard Ch. Shefford Magma, Wiltshire, England, daughter of Henry Quintyne and Alice.

 Includes NotesNotes for Thomas Prater:
THOMAS PRATER Gentlemen, was the 6th child born in his family, and was named after an older
brother who had died. Thomas was raised at Eaton Water and Stanton St. Bernard in Wiltshire England.
We find him living as an adult at Eaton Water House, Eaton Water, on the Cricklade, Wiltshire, England.
Thomas must have gained his position by the grace of another family members and his wife’s dowry. He
was not a wealth person but owned his own land at Eaton Water. His business was the woolen trade,
farming, and fernier (Eaton Water was located on the banks of the Thames River where he owned a
ferry). Eaton Water was a place that people, who used the river to transport their goods to the ports of
London, could stop and feed their livestock and find food and lodging for themselves. Eaton Water was
part of the old family estates that also consisted of Latton Manor and Inglesham Manor, all of which sat
along the banks of the Thames River in northern Wiltshire on what is called Cricklade. Stanton St.
Bernard Manor is located South Central Wiltshire about 50 miles south of Eaton Water Manor. Thomas’s
father Anthony Prater, who lost almost all of his property by the time of his death, owned Stanton St.
Bernard. Thomas, his son had little or no inheritance. Thomas's mother died at his birth and little is
known about his childhood, but we do know that he was taken, as a newborn, to relatives in the family's
Northern Wiltshire estates to be cared for. These relatives may have raised him until his father remarried
or he may have stayed with these relatives until his adulthood. Thomas lived at Eaton water when his
son Thomas Prater was born in 1604 and when he went to America about 1622.


More About Thomas Prater and Margaret Quintyne:
Marriage: June 04, 1599, Clyffe Pypard Ch. Shefford Magma, Wiltshire, England.

Children of Thomas Prater and Margaret Quintyne are:
  1. Alice Prater, b. February 18, 1599/00, d. date unknown.
  2. +Thomas Prater, b. December 26, 1604, Eaton Water, Wiltshire, England, d. 1666, Elizabeth Citties, VA.
  3. William Prater, b. 1606, d. date unknown.
  4. Richard Prater, b. March 07, 1606/07, d. date unknown.
  5. Margaret Prater, b. 1608, d. date unknown.
  6. Samuel Prater, b. 1610, d. date unknown.
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