Isabel Watson

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ¹⁵⁶⁶
Thomas Brigham married 4 Feb 1601, Mrs. Isabel (Watson) Ellithorpe, who was baptized 4 Feb 1601 at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, daughter of James Watson & the widow of Richard Ellisthorpe to whome she had been married on 27 Oct 1583. Both Thomas and his younger brother Robert Bringham had married widows over a dozen years older than themselves. Isabel Watson, wife of Thomas Brigham was the eldest sister of Constance Watson, wife of John Brigham, eldest brother of Thomas Brigham.

Isabel Watson, widow of Thomas Brigham, was buried 25 Jun 1634 and left the following will:

"June the Eight day Anno d^m 1634. In the name of God Amen. I Issabell Brigam of Holme in Spalingmoore in the County of Yorke widdow sicke and weake in body but of good and perfect remembrance thankes to be given to almighty God whoe hath made me and all the world, and my body to be buried within the parrish Church or Church yeard of Holme in Spaldingmore. Imprimis I give to the poore Thirteen shillings fower pence. Item I give my bedd with furniture thereof to William Ellenthrope my eldest sonne. Item I give to my sonne Thomas which is in his owne hand six pounds. Item I give Christopher Ellenthrorpe my sonne Five shillings. Item I give to Frances Stables Five shillings and my Cloake. Item I give to Constance Crosby my daughter Five shillings. Item I give to Anne Crosby my daughter Five shillings. Item I give to my sister Constance Brigm my best gowne and my petticoat. Item I give to Richard Ellenthropp my grand childe Forty shillings. Debts owinge to the sicke party. Imprimis of Thomas Bradley of Holme in Spaldingmore six pounds. Item Robert Millington senior Fower pounds. Item Francis Williams Two pounds. Item Christopher Ellenthorp my sonne Two pound. And for the confirmation hereof I ordaine Consitute and appoint William Ellenthrorpe my sonne full Executor of this my last will and Testament (all other wills formerly made being recalled backe again). My debtes being paid and my funerall charges being paid. Witnesses hereof, George Atkinson, Johannes Tennante, Anne Dayles." Proved 2 Oct 1634 by William Ellethorpe, son of deceased, executor named in will. [Prerogative and Exchequer of York Wills, vol. 42 fol. 281]

Chidren of Thomas Brigham and Isabel Watson, born at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor:

Constance, married to Robert Crosby.

Anne, born about 1606, m. at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor. 21 Apr 1634, Simon Crosby, a distant cousin of her sister's husband, Robert. Simon was the youngest son of Thomas and Jane (Sotheron) Crosby. They came to New England with her cousin Thomas Brigham on the ship Susan and Ellen in the spring of 1635, and settled at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he died in Sep 1639, Anne married a second time in 1645, Rev. William Tompson of Braintree, Massachusetts, where she died 11 Oct 1675, aged sixty-nine years according to her gravestone.

~ History of the Brigham Family, pp. 25-26

Isabel married Thomas Bingham, son of Thomas Bingham and Gillian, on 4 Feb 1601 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, East Riding, Yorkshire, England.¹⁵⁶⁶ (Thomas Bingham was born in 1575 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, East Riding, Yorkshire, England, baptized on 21 May 1575 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, East Riding, Yorkshire, England ¹⁵⁶⁶ and died before 19 Mar 1633 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, East Riding, Yorkshire, England ¹⁵⁶⁶.)