Richard Hyde 1635 Immigrant to America and his descendants
by Lisa Hyde Roach
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WoW!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lisa, for this great piece of Hyde family history. This is of huge value, and so informational. I’ve already found a name you mentioned in here (Ledbetter) that I also just found in my DNA matches on Ancestry! So, I need to check out that possible lead. This is fabulous.
You are welcome – I hope that everyone finds it useful. There are several Ledbetters in the Hyde tree – hope you have found a connection!
Hello Lisa. Years ago I dove into this rabbit hold of diving deep into my mother’s side of the family. The Hyde’s. While I have done extensive research, reassurance through your work has been nice. I am curious though, have you tried or had any success going back further to the lineage before Richard Hyde? There is certainly a reason the Hyde lineage has been as well recorded and that reason links back to prominent knights and a direct link to royalty. I’d love to chat with you and share my findings. I have successfully tracked our lineage back to the year 1000 when our grandfather took his name from the land he lived on: Hyde England. My name is Kelley Toben and my email is kelleytoben2@gmail.com. If you look me up on Facebook, my profile picture is me wearing a backwards hat and a tie die shirt. I look forward to speaking to you. God bless
Hi Kelly – there really has not been any verifiable source for Richard’s parentage. The question everyone should ask themselves is: “why would a young man whose parents were wealthy landed gentry need to indenture himself for his passage to the colonies?” As I said in the paper – it is known that he was not the son of Sir Laurence Hyde or Henry Hyde, father of Sir Edward Hyde, the 1st Earl of Clarendon. That family has been extensively studied and documented and, while it did include men named Richard, they are known to have remained in England or were not the correct age to be Richard the immigrant. If you use Wikitree, I have collected some of the research into various men named Richard here https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hyde-969- one of whom may or may not have been our Richard. I work on this from time to time and have been trying to systematically eliminate Richards. Our Richard might have been the son of one of the many tradesmen named Hyde in and around London in the 1600s! Y-DNA might eventually help us sort this out, but so far our part of the Y-DNA tree of mankind is one of the more sparsely populated parts and the closest male line relatives are the Adkins family mentioned in the paper and some men who trace their ancestry to France. Hopefully as more men participate in Y-DNA testing, the path forward will become clear. Until then, happy hunting!