While the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society is a top notch resource, I’ve never had enough New York lines to pursue that I’ve sought out membership.

Like the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, NYGBS publishes a first rate journal, The Record. American Ancestors does have some older issues of The Record in its online collection, but only up to 1924 so I’ve never read most of the more modern articles they have published.

However, while I was recently in the small library of my local genealogical society, I noticed that someone had donated paper copies of The Record dating from 2018 to 2021. Of course, I browsed and, much to my delight, I came across a three part article detailing the English origins of Richard Ogden, one of my Connecticut ancestors who settled in Fairfield County, Connecticut in the 1600s.

The first article in the series, The Ogden Family of Oxenhope: The Probable Yorkshire Origins of John and Richard Ogden, Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut and Proprietors of Hempstead, New York, was published in 2018 in Volume 149, no. 4, pages 245-262.

Authors Louis G. Ogden and Brent M. Owen reviewed previous research on the early Ogdens and explained their own background research and findings.

The result is not only the addition of Richard Ogden’s English origins, but also four additional generations of Ogden forebears from the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Two more articles in the three-part series followed, the second published in January 2019 (Volume 150, no. 1, pages 61-76 and the conclusion published in April 2019 (Volume 150, no. 2, pages 147-154).

If you are an Ogden descendant of Richard or John Ogden, I strongly recommend locating these journals, as there is so much information to be learned.

In the next few posts, I will share just the bare bones about the Ogden family of Yorkshire, beginning today with the man thought to be the progenitor, Richard Hogden of Haworth, Yorkshire, England.

Little is known about Richard, who was born c1500, likely in or near Haworth, England. What is known about his life comes mainly from his will, which was written on 21 December 1532 and recorded on 13 June 1533. Richard noted his residence as Haworth and asked that he be buried at St. Michael’s Church there.

His wife at the time and who might or might not be the mother of any of his children was Janett (MNU), who inherited all is land during her lifetime. It is thought that she was still living in 1545, when the wife of Richard paid one penny in subsidy tax.

No children were named, but since his wife was the only heir, there is no way to determine how many children might have survived him.

However, because Haworth sits almost equidistant between Keighley and Bingley, where the later Ogdens lived, it is more than possible that this Richard Ogden was the father of John Ogden, for whom a family sketch will be shared in tomorrow’s post. Further support for this theory is that John Ogden, one generation younger, also lived in Haworth.

My lengthy Ogden descent (14 generations) is:

Richard Hogden, born c1500 = Janett (possible progenitor)
John Ogden = Alice (MNU)
Richard Ogden = Elizabeth (MNU)
Richard Ogden = Unknown
Richard Ogden = Ellen Lupton
Richard Ogden = Mary (MNU) (Connecticut immigrant)
Daniel Silliman = Abigail Ogden
David Adams = Abigail Silliman
David Adams = Susannah Lockwood
John Adams = Sarah Coley (U.E. Loyalist)
Thomas Adams = Sarah Brawn
Daniel Adams = Sarah Ann Parker
Calvin Segee Adams = Nellie F. Tarbox
Charles Edwin Adams = Annie Maude Stuart
Vernon Tarbox Adams = Hazel Ethel Coleman
George Michael Sabo = Doris Priscilla Adams
Linda Anne Sabo – Me!

Next up is the family sketch of John Ogden & Alice (MNU) of Haworth, England in the 1500s.