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Notes for William Beardsley

The name of Beardsley is said to have been derived from the residence of its first bearers in the parish of Bardsley, near Manchester, Lancashire, England. It is found on the ancient records in the various forms of Bardesle, Beardesle, Bardesley, Basrdeslee, Bardsey, Bardsea, Bardesey, Berdesley, Berdesleghe, Bardsleigh, Beardslee, Bardley, Bardsley, Bearsley, Bersley, Berdsley, Beadsley, Beardslee, Bardley, Bardsley, Beardsley, and innumerable others, of which the last form mentioned is that most generally accepted in America today and several of the forms immediately preceding it are also frequently used.
Various branches of this family were to be found at early dates in the English counties of Lancashire, Somerset, Chester, Oxford, and London and were, for the fmost part, of the landed gentry of Great Britain. Among the earlies records of the name in England were those of Robert de Berdesleghe of Somersetshire in the latter half of the thirteenth century, those of Roger de Berdesleghe of about the same time, those of Robert de Bardesle of Oxfordshire in 1273, those of William de Bardesley of a slightly later period, those of William de Bardsley of Ashton-under-lyne in 1422, those of John Bardsley of Cheshire about the middle of the sixteenth century, those of William Bardsley of Ashton before 1600, and numerous others. The direct line of descent of the B(e)ardsleys or Bardseys of Lancashire is said to have ended in the early seventeenth century with one Nicholas Bardsey, who left only female issue, but the family was continued in other branches. One of the best known of these younger branches of the family was that of one William Bardsley or B(e)ardsley of Lancashire about the middle of the sixteenth century, who removed to London and left issue there by his wife, a Miss Stanley, of William, who married Eliza Lever and was the father by her of a son named Thomas, who had issue by his wife Ann Moore of William, Abraham, Edward, Elizabeth, and Martha. It is not definitely known from which of the branches of the family in England the early emigrants of the name to America were descended, but it is believed that all of the Beardsleys were of common ancestry at a remote period. The first of the name in America was William Beardsley (who also used several other forms of the name) was born in England in 1605. On April 2, 1635, he sailed on the ship "Planter" for America. There were 37 emigrants in all on the ship and the records of the Beardsleys is as follows:
A masonWilliam Beardsley years 30
Marie" " 26
Marie" " 4
John" " 2
Joseph" " 6 months
They landed in Massachusetts probably about June 1, 1635 and it is believed that he settled first at Watertown, Mass. Shortly afterward he removed to Stratford, Conn., where he died in 1661 at about fifty-six years of age. This emigrant brought with him from England his wife Mary and his three children, Mary, John and Joseph. The children born in this country are believed to have been Samuel, Sarah, Hannah, and Daniel, and there may have been others as well. The descendants of the various branches of the family in America have spread to all parts of the United States and have aided greatly both in the founding and in the development of the nation. Among those of the Beardsleys who fought in the War of the Revolution were Hospital Surgeon's-Mate Gersham of New York, Surgeon Ebenezer of Connecticut, Captain Nehemiah of Connecticut, Captain Phineas of Connecticut, and others. The coat-of-arms of the ancient Bard(e)sley family of Lancashire, from which the American Beardsleys are believe to trace their descent is generally described as follows:
Arms - "Argent, two bars gulses, on a canton of the second maunch of the first."
(Arms taken from Burke's "General Armory", 1884)
(The above is a digest of data compiled by the Media Research Bureau.)

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New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Volume IV
Author: William Richard Cutter

This is Volume IV of a four-volume set. It has records of achievements of people from England, who have set up commonwealths in New England. About 6000 names included in this record.

Bibliographic Information: Cutter, William Richard. New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Volume IV. 1913. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996.

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William Beardsley, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1605. He came to this country in 1635 in the ship "Planter" with his wife Mary, aged twenty-six. children Mary, aged four, John, aged two, and Joseph, aged six months. According to the family tradition, he was a native of Stratford-on-Avon, the home of Shakespeare, and it is believed that he gave the name of Stratford to the settlement in which he made his home. now Stratford, Connecticut. One of his descendants who settled in western New York named the town in which he located Avon in honor of the Beardsley who came with Rev. Adam Blakeman from St. Albans, England, and settled first at Hadley, Massachusetts. In 1638 he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, and in the following spring to Stratford, of which he was one of the first settlers. He was deputy to the General Court seven years. He was a mason by trade. His will was dated September 28, 1660. and proved July 6, 1661. His inventory, dated February 13, 1660-01, amounted to three hundred and thirty-three pounds fifteen shillings eight pence. He died at the age of fifty-six years, leaving several young children.
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