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Who is Richard Edgerton?
Why Am I Interested in St. Mary’s Church, Brook, County Kent, England?
Richard Edgerton was born in County Kent, England in 1622, the only surviving child of Richard Egerden and Ellen Strood (or Strude). Richard Edgerton is my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Some sources suggest he may have come from the Parish of Brook – several miles from Ashford, County Kent, England (where his father was born) and church records show that a Richard Egerden was baptized at Brook, 22 November 1622. He had one sister who was stillborn in September 1621 and his mother was dead before he was five (surmised since his father married widow Joan Harlocke in September 1627). His great-grandfather, grandfather and uncle were tanners for many years in Brook. Richard emigrated and appears in Saybrook, Connecticut in 1635 when he would have been only 13.  Richard married Mary Sylvester in 1653 and moved to Norwich, Connecticut about 1660. He died in March 1691 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut.

Since many of the early Edgertons were born, married, and buried in Brook in the 1500s and 1600s, I was very interested in visiting the one church in Brook that has been in the village since about 1100 A.D.

I am descended from Richard Edgerton through the following families. See the Edgerton family web site for more information. I am the oldest of the four children  of William Edgerton Dunwiddie (1920-  ) and Mary Jane Vroman (1921-2001). William is the oldest of two sons of Ina Catherine Louise Edgerton Dunwiddie (1896-1983) and Walter Rockwood Dunwiddie (1889-1966). Ina was the oldest of the ten children of Wilfred Henry Edgerton (1871-1943) and Lena Dorothea Herr (1872-1956). Wilfred (Fred) was the sixth of the seven children of William Driggs Edgerton (1830-1878) and Helen Marion Martin (1832-1910). William was the third and youngest child of Thomas Selden Edgerton (1793-1854) and Stattira Driggs (1797-1875). Thomas was the third of nine children of Roswell Edgerton (1767-1837) and Sara Selden (1770-1846). Roswell was the second of seven children of Sims Edgerton (1739/1740-1782) and Lucretia Horsford (dates unknown). Sims was the third of twelve children of Joshua Edgerton (1707/1708-1779) and Ruth Kingsbury (1712/1713-1769). Joshua was the second of the twelve children of Samuel Edgerton (1670-1748) and Alice Ripley (1683-1768). Alice Ripley was the great-granddaughter of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. Samuel was the oldest of the ten children born in Norwich, Connecticut to Richard Edgerton (1622-1691/1692) and Mary Sylvester (dates unknown).

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