The last in this series of posts on the Ogden family continues with my direct line of descent, Richard Ogden and Mary (MNU), who lived in Fairfield County, Connecticut in the 1600s.

Richard Ogden was baptized on 25 March 1621 in Bingley, Yorkshire, England, the son of Richard & Ellen (Lupton) Ogden. He appears in no other English records, but does appear in early Stamford, Connecticut records by 1643, as does his uncle John.

By 1644, Richard and his uncle John were proprietors in Hempstead, Long Island, New York.

No marriage record has been found for Richard and it is believed that his wife’s name was Mary. He probably married her by 1644 in the colonies.

They were the parents of eight children:

1. Son, born c1646, probably Hempstead, New York
2. Daughter, born c1648, probably Hempstead, New York; married Samuel Ward, who died before 8 January 1692/93
3. Richard, born c1653, probably Hempstead, New York. died before 25 January 1697/98, Fairfield County, New York; married Sarah (MNU)
4. Daughter, born c1655, probably Hempstead, New York; died before 15 June 1687, probably Hempstead, New York; married John Pine, c1684
5. Elizabeth, born c1662, probably Huntington, Suffolk, New York; died before 1700, probably Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut; married Daniel Meeker
6. Abigail, born c1664, probably Fairfield County, Connecticut; married Daniel Silliman, c1685. He died 4 February 1696/97, Fairfield County, Connecticut
7. David, born c1668, probably Fairfield County, Connecticut; married Abigail Sherwood
8. John, born c1669; died 22 December 1745, Fairfield, Salem, New Jersey; married Sarah Diament/Dymont, c1700

The inventory of Richard Ogden’s estate was taken on 8 April 1687 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Nothing further is known about his purported wife, Mary.

Richard Ogden was born c1595 in England, the son of Richard Ogden and an unknown wife.

This Richard said goodbye not only to his brother, John, who died in Eliabethtown, New Jersey in 1682, but also repeated the ritual when his sons Richard and John also chose a new life in the colonies.

Richard Ogden’s death date is unknown, just that no Richard Ogden is found in the Bingley church registers after 21 April 1639.

Richard married Ellen Lupton on 1 September 1618, Keighley, Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of Christopher Lupton and Isabel Snowden.

Richard Ogden and Ellen Lupton were the parents of seven children. However, two died in childhood, there is no further information aside from the baptisms for three others and the two remaining children, Richard and John, left England.

Children (All baptized at Bingley except for Isabell):

1. Isabell, 11 April 1619, Keighley, Yorkshire, England; buried 11 September 1636, Bingley, Yorkshire, England
2. Richard, 25 March 1621; died before April 1687, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut; married Mary (MNU), by 1644
3. John, 10 July 1625; died before 1683, Rye, Westchester, New York; married Judith Budd, c166, probably in eastern Long Island, New York
4. George, 14 October 1627; no further record
5. Sarah, 31 January 1629/30; buried 21 July 1637, Bingley, Yorkshire, England
6. Thomas, 31 August 1634; no further record
7. (probably) Joseph, 21 April 1639; no further record

What became of Richard and Ellen is not known. It seems strange that the burial record of both would be omitted from Bingley church records, so it is more plausible that they either moved to another parish where the church records have no survived or even possibly that they left England with their sons, but died before appearing in any records in the colonies.

Today’s family sketch covers the first of the Ogden family to have members take part in the Great Migration to the colonies.

Richard Ogden’s birth year is an unknown, except that he was born before 17 April 1576, as he was named in his grandfather’s will. It is thought that his eldest child was born c1595, so a birth year around 1571 might be a reasonable estimate.

The name of Richard’s wife is unknown, not even her first name, and she is lost to history except for her date of burial at Bingley, Yorkshire, England on 8 July 1627.

Richard Ogden was the father of four known children:

1. Richard, born c1595; died after 21 April 1639; married Ellen Lupton, 1 September 1618, Keighley, Yorkshire, England
2. Martha, born c1597; died about 20 February 1635/36, Bingley, Yorkshire, England; married William Sugden, 18 October 1619, bingley, Yorkshire, England
3. Ann, born c1599; married Jarvis Robert, 5 November 1621, Bingley, Yorkshire, England
4. John, born between 23 January 1605/06-1614; died before 30 May 1682, Elizabethtown, New Jersey; married Jane (MNU)

John became the first of the Ogden family to make the big decision to leave England and begin a new life in the colonies, living in Stamford, Connecticut, Hempstead, New York and, finally, Elizabethtown, New Jersey.