Today, we will take a short look at the third documented generation of the Ogden family of Yorkshire and eventually New York and Connecticut.

Not a lot is known about this family, either.

Richard Ogden, son of John Ogden and possibly Alice (MNU) was born c1545, probably in Haworth, Yorkshire, England, as that had been the family home for some decades.

About 1564, Richard married Elizabeth (MNU) and they became the parents of an unknown number of children, as richard acknowledged in his will that he had other children, not named, who had already received their portions of his estate.

Children:

1. Edmund, born c1566; died between 24 September 1599-19 December 1599; married Agnes (MNU)
2. Richard, born before 17 April 1576, Bingley, Yorkshire, England; died about 4 March 1629/30; married Unknown (MNU)
3. John, born c1578
4. Thomas, born c1580; married Sara Ainleye, 3 May 1602, Halifax, Yorkshire, England
5. William, born before 28 July 1582; died before 1605
6. Samuel, born c1584; died about 13 July 1631 of the plague, Ovenden, Halifax, Yorkshire, England; married an unknown wife who also died of the plague about 12 July 1631
7. Nicholas, born c1586; died about 5 October 1638, Haworth, Yorkshire, England; married an unknown wife, who died about 4 December 1619, Bingley, Yorkshire, England
8. Michael, born c1588; died about 30 May 1623, Bradford, Yorkshire, England; married an unknown wife who died about 9 June 1624, also in Bradford.

Richard Ogden Sr. died before 10 April 1606, when his will was recorded, probably in Haworth, Yorkshire, England. His wife Elizabeth is named in his will, but no further information has been found about her.

This family sketch will be on the short side because not much is known about this family.

One important fact, though, is that John Ogden lived in the same small village of Haworth, Yorkshire, England as did the presumed progenitor of this family, Richard Ogden, who died in 1533.

John Ogden was likely born c1524, probably in or very near to Haworth. Alice (MNU) was his surviving wife, who died sometime after 4 October 1576, when John’s will was recorded.

Whether she was the mother of John’s two surviving children is unknown and there is a probable gap of about ten years between the births of his son and daughter.

Children:

1. Richard, born c1545; died before 10 April 1606, probably in Haworth, Yorkshire, England; married Elizabeth (MNU)
2. Alice, born c1556; died after 17 April 1576 (date of her father’s will); married George Murgatroyd, sometime before 17 April 1576, the date of her father’s will

Actually, the birth order of these two children is unknown, as neither baptismal or marriage records have been found and we know only that Alice was married by 1576. There is no indication of when she was born. It is possible that she was older than Richard.

Next, we will look at the family of Richard and Elizabeth (MNU) Ogden.

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.