Biography

Walter Antrobus of St. Albans is mentioned in the Corporation Records as being a Warden of the Shoemakers Company in 1588, and in 1614 one of the "Assistants." He married Barbara Lawrence in 1579; but she died in 1585, leaving no surviving issue, and in 1586-7 he married Jane Arnold. By her he had several children including William Antrobus, who is mentioned in early Pedigrees as of St. Albans, and a daughter named Joan. William married and had children, of whom William, born in 1611, was probably the "William Antrobus of New England" to whom William Antrobus of St. Paul's Churchyard left 40s. in 1664-5. Joan was married twice. In 1609 she married Thomas Lawrence, and after his death in 1624-5, she married John Tuttle or Tuttell. In 1635 she and all her family, including John Tuttell, three Lawrences (John, William and Marie - aged 17, 12 and 9), four Tuttells (Abiagil, Simon, Sarah, and John - aged 6, 4, 2, and 1), and her mother, Jane or Joan Antrobus (aged 65), left England for America in a ship called "the Planter." They belonged to a party of thirty-five persons, comprising a mercer (John Tuttell), two shoemakers, a linen weaver, three tailors, three husbandmen, and a mason, with their families who all went out together from St. Albans...

Antrobus, pedigrees : the story of a Cheshire family
Chapter III. St. Albans. London (Cliffords Inn, Cornhill, Lothbury). New England. Kent. Eton. Cambridge. Stoke Poges (Thomas Gray)