Biographical Summary
Nothing much is known about the Tinker
family. William Bradford simply wrote "Thomas Tinker and his wife
and son all died in the first sickness," so there is not much for
researchers to go on. However, Thomas Tinker is mentioned once in
Leiden records, when he was granted citizenship in Leiden on 6 January
1617, guaranteed by fellow church members Abraham Gray and John Keble.
He was called a wood sawyer in the citizenship record. Charles
Edward Banks in his English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers
notes there was a Thomas Tinker, carpenter, from Neatishead, Norfolk,
who married Jane White on 25 June 1609 in Thurne, Norfolk. This
seems like a reasonable theory, and more research would be worthwhile. |
