♂Richard Hull

Richard Hull (born about 1515, buried 10 February 1558/9) was a man of Crewkerne, in Somerset, England. He was the eleventh great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Thomas Hull.

He is said to have worked at Crewkerne as a miller and husbandman^W. Richard and his wife Alice had a son, Thomas, born about 1552. Richard was buried at Crewkerne on 10 February 1558/9, when Thomas was about six, and he is said to have left a will in 1559. Alice outlived him by more than twenty-eight years and was buried at Crewkerne on 2 October 1587, recorded as the widow of Richard Hull.

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Sources

His birth about 1515, his trade, his burial and Alice’s burial as his widow come from a Hull family history that cites a work by Holway. A Hull family-society typescript, which follows John Insley Coddington’s article “The Pyssing Ancestry of the Hulls of New England”, makes Thomas Hull, born about 1552, a son of Richard and Alice.

The will

Burton W. Spear’s Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630 names the grandfather of George Hull, Thomas’s son who settled in New England, as “Richard Hull of Crewkerne (will 1559)”. His burial on 10 February 1558/9 falls in 1559 by the modern reckoning, in which the year begins on 1 January rather than 25 March.