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Richard Olmstead

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Mabel Phelps ← Abel Phelps ← Rebecca North ← Hannah Newell ← Rebecca Olmstead ← Richard Olmstead

In brief

Baptized March 22, 1579, at Great Leighs, Essex County, England. He married November 3, 1606, in Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, England. He died about November 1641 near Fairsted, Essex, England.

Family

Father

James Olmstead

Mother

Jane Bristow

Spouse

Frances Slaney

m. 1606

Children

Richard Olmstead
b. c. February 1611
m. ____
m. Magdalen ____ in Norwalk, Connecticut
d. Abt. 1686, in Norwalk, Connecticut
Mary Olmstead
b. Abt. July 1615 near Fairstead, Essex, England
John Olmstead
b. c. February 1616
m. Elizabeth Adgate around 1641
d. August 2, 1686, in Norwich, Connecticut
Sara Olmstead
b. Abt. November 1620 near Fairstead, Essex, England
Rebecca Olmstead · in this line
b. Abt. 1622
m. Thomas Newell
d. February 24, 1698, in Farmington, Connecticut
Joseph Olmstead
b. Abt. December 1627 near Fairstead, Essex, England

Siblings

Thomas Olmstead
b. June 7, 1577
m. Margaret Sache, February 4, 1599, in Great Leighs, Essex, England
James Olmstead
b. Abt. December 1580 in Great Leighs, Essex, England
m. Joyce Cornish, October 26, 1605, in Great Leighs, Essex, England
d. Abt. October 1640 in Hartford, Connecticut
Elizabeth Olmstead
b. Abt. September 1582 around Great Leighs, Essex, England
d. Abt. December 1582 around Great Leighs, Essex, England
Nicholas Olmstead
b. Abt. November 1583 around Great Leighs, Essex, England
Mary Olmstead
b. Abt. October 1585 around Great Leighs, Essex, England
d. Abt. December 1594 around Great Leighs, Essex, England
Mabell Olmstead
b. Abt. July 1587 around Great Leighs, Essex, England
John Olmstead
b. c. February 1592

Life story

A Fairsted Burial

Richard Olmstead was baptized March 22, 1579, at Great Leighs, Essex, England, and married Frances Slaney in Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, in November 1606. He was buried near Fairsted, Essex, in November 1641.

Sources (2)

Henry King Olmstead and George K. Ward, Genealogy of the Olmstead Family in America (New York: A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing, 1912); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924029843244 : accessed 22 July 2026).
Leslie Mahler, “The English Origins of John Baisey/Baysey of Hartford, Connecticut,” The American Genealogist 82 (January 2007): 32-38; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/13266/32/24795227 : accessed 23 July 2026).