Nathaniel Thayer (1640-1725) was the great great grandson of John TAYER who was born about 1500 (of) Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. The Thayer family resided in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England until 5 heads of families immigrated to America in the mid-1600's. It was not discovered until 2003 (after the publication of Vol. II) that Nathaniel Thayer's father, William also immigrated. It is believed they came to America in about 1645.
Volume VI follows the descendants of the 1637 Immigrant to America -Thomas Thayer (1596-1665) - through his grandsons, Samuel & Josiah Thayer, sons of Ferdinando 2 to the present generation.
Family history of the Thayer family originally from Braintree, Essex County, England. immigrating to Suffolk County, Massachusetts with some ancestors moving to Illinois in the late 1700s.
Richard Thayer (1601-1664) was the Great Grandson of John TAYER of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. He Immigrated to America in 1641 settling in Braintree, Norfolk, MA. He died in Barbados. This volume follows the descendants of his grandson to the present generation.
Richard Thayer (1601-1665), great grandson of John TAYER of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England immigrated to America in 1641. This volume follows his descendants to the present generation.
Excerpt from Memorial of the Thayer Name, From the Massachusetts Colony of Weymouth and Braintree, Embracing Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of Richard Thomas Thayer, and Their Descendants From 1636 to 1874 The more one studies history, and races, and families, the more he must be convinced of. The marked and permanent influences of blood, despite all the crossings by inter marriages. Every genealogist has marked and marveled at the continuance from generation to generation of some particular type of character that was visible in the earliest known ancestor._ This fact has been strikingly illustrated in the two Thayer families and their descendants to this day; it is visible to any man of talent. To read aright the lesson of human history, to reach wise and safe generalizations, one must not forget the law of descent and force there is in blood or race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Walter Tisdale Thayer was born 28 December 1876 in Norton, Massachusetts. His parents were Henry Tisdale Thayer (1839-1909) and Margaret Ellen Smith (1852-1903). He married married Ann Elizabeth Levere (1880-1965), daughter of John Leviere and Elizabeth Breen, 20 September 1900 in Bristol, Rhode Island. They had ten children. He died in 1961 in Providence Rhode Island. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
