Below are questions and answers about the earliest known (so far) Thrale family records.
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It is believed that all Thrale family members originate from Thrale's End [6], Bedfordshire; and the nearby village of Sandridge [7], Hertfordshire, both in Southern England. The family is know to have have lived here since at least 1309. 1
The earliest record of any Thrale is thought to John Thral in the 1309 Subsidy Rolls [11] for Bedfordshire and William le Thral in the 1332 Subsidy Rolls for Sussex.1
Robert Thrale who died in 1538 in Sandridgebury, Hertfordshire, was according to his will, buried in the "the medle Aley" of St. Leonards Church, Sandridge [7].
It is likely that many ancient Thrale graves were removed during the 1888 clearance of the graveyard. 1
The earliest known grave of which any trace remains is in the graveyard outside St. Leonard's Church in Sandridge village lies is the tomb of Susanah Thrale who died on 15th November 1751 Aged 23.
The furthest back that anyone is known to have traced unbroken ancestors is Robert Thrale who died in 1538 in Sandridgebury, Hertfordshire. Robert is said to be buried "the medle Aley" of St. Leonard's Church [7] in Sandridge.
William Thrall [20], born Sandridge [7] 1605, died 3 August 1676 in Windsor, Connecticut, America. He sailed to America on 20 March 1630 and landed on 30 May 1630, at a place in Boston that they later called Dorchester.
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[7] https://www.thrale.com/thrales_sandridge
[8] http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fPoujUPs3hYC&pg=RA1-PA445&vq=thrale&dq=The+Origins+of+English+Surname.+P.H.+Reaney.&source=gbs_search_s
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[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy_roll
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[14] http://www.thrale.com/sites/all/libraries/tng/headstones/grave_susanah_thrale.jpg
[15] https://www.thrale.com/image/historic_sandridge_revisited
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[20] https://www.thrale.com/genealogy_us_thralls_by_d_stephan_thrall