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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

Born

Baptized: March 22, 1579, at Great Leighs, Essex County, England

Died

Abt. November 1641 near Fairsted, Essex, England

Married

November 3, 1606, in Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, England

Also known as

Richard Homesteed

Family

Father

Mother

Child in this line

Spouse

Children

Richard Olmstead
b. Abt. February 1611/1612/1613 near Great Leighs, Essex, England · d. Abt. 1686, in Norwalk, Connecticut
m. ____; Magdalen ____ in Norwalk, Connecticut
Mary Olmstead
b. Abt. July 1615 near Fairstead, Essex, England
John Olmstead
b. Abt. February 1616/1617/1618 near Fairstead, Essex, England · d. August 2, 1686, in Norwich, Connecticut
m. Elizabeth Adgate around 1641
Sara Olmstead
b. Abt. November 1620 near Fairstead, Essex, England
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 · d. Abt. October 1640 in Hartford, Connecticut
m. Joyce Cornish, October 26, 1605, in Great Leighs, Essex, England
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. Abt. February 1592/1593 around Great Leighs, Essex, England

In brief

Born Baptized: March 22, 1579, at Great Leighs, Essex County, England. He married November 3, 1606, in Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, England. He died Abt in Fairsted, Essex, England.

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).