Thomas Styles 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 
    Christening: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 7 Mar 1614 - Milbroke, Bedfordshire, England 2
 Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children 
1. *Marie (       - 20 Mar 1614) 1 
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. Marie Styles (1591-      )
                2. Henry Stiles (1593-1651)
                3. John Stiles (1595-1662)
                4. Christopher Stiles (1600-      )
                5. Francis Stiles (1602-Bef 1665)
                6. Joan Stiles (1604-      )
                7. Elizabeth Stiles (1607-      )
                8. Thomas Stiles (1612-      )
Notes
General:
Thomas Styles was a carpenter in the village of Milbroke in Bedfordshire, England. He and his wife, Marie, both of whom died in 1614, were the parents of 8 children, of whom 4 sons and perhaps a daughter emigrated to America in 1634-5.

On pages 22 and 23 of The Stiles Family in America -- Genealogies of the Connecticut Family (Henry Reed Stiles, 1895) we find the following comment:

"It is very evident that the family was not of Bedfordshire origin. It appears upon the Milbroke register in 1581; and it entirely disappears from there with the emigration to America of Thomas Stiles' children in 1635, having dwelt there altogether for a period of 54 years. Neither in this, or the adjoining parish of Ampthill, does the name ever subsequently appear.
This Milbrooke family, of which Thomas and Marie were the parents, and from which we are descended, was -- at the time when our knowledge of it begins (February, 1635) -- pretty well broken up. The parents had been dead for some twenty years; and the sons, most of whom had followed their father's trade of carpentering, etc., had sought their fortunes apparently in London; where HENRY and FRANCIS had already become reputably established as master carpenters and builders, and were freemen of that city. JOHN and CHRISTOPHER were likewise away from Milbrooke, and very possibly, were also in London. THOMAS, the youngest of the family, and apparently an husbandman by occupation, was the only one left in Milbrooke, as appears by his letter (p. 14), to his elder brother Henry. Of the sisters, JOAN and ELIZABETH, we have no knowledge; they were probably married, or residing in London with some of their brothers."

See notes under Francis Stiles for more information about the emigration.
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Sources

1 Henry Reed Stiles, The Stiles Family in America -- Genealogies of the Connecticut Family, 1895, pg 20. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

2 Henry Reed Stiles, The Stiles Family in America -- Genealogies of the Connecticut Family, 1895, pg 20 -- Milbrooke: Stylle extracts from the parish registers. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

3 Henry Reed Stiles, The Stiles Family in America -- Genealogies of the Connecticut Family, 1895, pg 29. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

4 Henry Reed Stiles, The Stiles Family in America -- Genealogies of the Connecticut Family, 1895, pg 40-42. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

5 Henry Reed Stiles, The Stiles Family in America -- Genealogies of the Connecticut Family, 1895, pgs 462-74. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

6 Henry Reed Stiles, The Stiles Family in America -- Genealogies of the Connecticut Family, 1895, pgs 20, 35. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

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