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Frances Albright

Generation 12 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Sarah Sally Jones ← Russell Jones ← Nathan Jones ← Hannah Welles ← Noah Welles ← Thomas Welles ← Frances Albright

In brief

Born about 1600 in England. 1639: England to America. She married about 1625 in England. She died 1678 in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

Family

Father

Richard Albright

Mother

____

Spouse

Thomas Welles

m. 1625

Spouse

Thomas Coleman

m. 1638

Children

Mary Welles
b. Abt. 1626 in England
m. Jonathan Gilbert around 1650
d. July 3, 1700, in Hartford, Connecticut
John Welles
b. Abt. 1635 in England
m. Sarah Curtis around 1658
d. October 18, 1692, in Hatfield, Massachusetts
Deborah Coleman
b. Abt. 1640 in England
m. Daniel Gunn
Thomas Wells · in this line
b. England
m. Mary Beardsley, May 1651 in Wethersfield, Connecticut
d. September-December 1676 in Hadley, Massachusetts

Siblings

Elizabeth Albright
b. Abt. January 1592[1593] near Welford-on-Avon, Gloucestershire, England
d. Abt. July 1615 near Alcester, Warwickshire, England
John Albright
b. Abt. April 1595 near Welford-on-Avon, Gloucestershire, England
m. Joan ____
d. Abt. September 1669 near Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire, England
Richard Albright
b. Abt. November 1597 near Welford-on-Avon, Gloucestershire, England
m. Anne Kilby around 1630
d. Abt. 1638 near Alderminster, Worcestershire, England
Anna/Agnes Albright
b. Abt. September 1603 near Alcester, Warwickshire, England
d. Abt. February 1603[1604] near Alcester, Warwickshire, England
Alice Albright
b. Abt. March 1606[1607] near Alcester, Warwickshire, England
m. Griffin Lowe, October 2, 1632, in Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire, England
Anne Albright
b. Abt. December 1612 near Alcester, Warwickshire, England

Life story

An Evesham Emigrant

Frances Albright was born around 1600 in England, daughter of Richard Albright, and lived in Evesham, Worcestershire, before emigrating to America in 1639. She settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, by 1645 and later in Hadley, Massachusetts, where she died in 1678, leaving her property to the family of her son, Thomas Welles.

Sources (2)

Nathan Henry Jones, The Ancestors of My Daughters (Poultney, Vermont: Nathan Henry Jones, 1914).
Douglas Richardson, “The Widow Frances (Albright) Wells, Wife of Thomas Coleman of Wethersfield and Hadley,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 146 (January 1992): 28-34; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11691/28/0 : accessed 18 August 2026).