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View Tree for Thomas TalmageThomas Talmage (b. Abt. 1595, d. 1653)

Thomas Talmage was born Abt. 1595 in Barton Stacey, Hampshire, England, and died 1653 in East Hampton, NY. He married Unknown Talmage.

 Includes NotesNotes for Thomas Talmage:
The family name has been written in a dozen ways, including Talmadge, Tallmadge, Tallmage, Tolmash, Talmash, and Tollemache these spellings being used interchangeably but always pronounced the same.

The Talmages are one of the oldest families in English history, dating back to Saxon times when Toelmag, a Saxon lord of the sixth century owned land in Oxfordshire and lived in Bentley Hall, Suffolk.

"Before the Normans into England came,
Bentley was my manor and Talmash was my name."

This distich (a unit of verse consisting of two lines, especially as used in Greek and Latin elegiac poetry) is said to have been inscribed over the ancient gateway at Bentley Hall. Bentley lies on the banks of the River Orwell. At a recent date the name was found to be represented by two titles in the Peerage of England, that of the Earls of Dysart, who have spelled the name Talmash; and that of Lord Tollemache of Helmingham Hall, not far from Bentley.

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A footnote in one of two priceless bound manuscript volumes written by Robert Swartwout Talmage of New York says: General James Grant Wilson in an article in the "New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings" (1896) writes:
"I was lately the guest of an Englishman whose ancestors had lived on the same spot for over a thousand years -- Lord Tollemache occupies an ancient castle (Helmingham) surrounded by a double moat where drawbridges are raised as they were in the days of Queen Elizabeth -- when I asked him if his ancestor came over with William the Conqueror, the proud old patrician of four score replied, 'No, my family was seated here a hundred years before the bastard was born.'"
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The name of Roberti de Toelmag is found in Domesday Book; he was located in Suffolk in 1068. Sir William Talmach, brother of Sir Hugh of County Suffolk, and probably son of Sir Peter Talmach of Oxfordshire born 1200 or earlier, to William Talmage of Barton Stacey, whose will was made 1581 father of John Talmage of nearby Newton Stacey who died 1640, and of Thomas, Puritan ancestor. The seat of the family in Hampshire was at Newton Stacey, it was from there that the first American Talmages came.

In All Saints Church, Hawsted, Suffolk, is an effigy of a knight in full armor, having both arms and legs crossed (the Crusader) which is thought to be that of Sir William Talmash the Talmash arms are in stained glass windows there. In 1270 Edward 1st, known as Edward Plantagenet, son of Henry III, formed the Seventh Crusade he was proclaimed King during this expedition. On the way home to England, Gascony was reduced (1272) and Sir William Talmach was killed in that battle. His wife, the Lady Cecilia, doubtless had the Gothic tomb placed in the church at Hawsted, then called Talmash Manor.
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Records have established that Thomas Talmage, his wife, three sons and a daughter, left England for New England in "The Plough" a ship of 60 tons. In London, during the reign of Charles I, a small body of dissenters called "The Husbandmen" or the "Company of the Plough" had been formed, these names meaning the religious field rather than earth culture, most of the member being merchants or artisans rather than tillers of the soil. Their lead was Stephen Bachiler who in 1622 was living and preaching the Puritan faith at Newton Stacey. It was decided to send a band of settlers into New England to propagate their ideas. Bachiler was a friend of John Winthrop, who became the governor of Massachusetts. The Talmages were in this group, and were settled in Lynn, near Boston, by the spring of 1630. There Thomas was made a freeman in 1634 and granted 200 acres, becoming one of the largest landholders in the town.





Children of Thomas Talmage and Unknown Talmage are:
  1. +Thomas Talmage, b. 1617, England499, d. 1691, East Hampton, NY.
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