LOMBARD, Bernard (Lumbard)

  General Notes:

The name is also seen as Lumbart, Lumbard, Lumbert and similar variatio ns.

Bernard Lombard was born probably at Themcombe, Dorset, ca. 1608. On 20 February 1668/69 he deposed that he was about age sixty (MD 17:109). Be rnard was the son of Thomas Lombard, q.v., and much of the
information below is from Robert S. Wakefield, "The Lombard Family of
Barnstable, Mass.," TAG 52:136-39, Bernard was first at Dorchester with
his father. Moving to Plymouth County, he lived at Scituate, where he
and his wife joined Lothrop's church 19 April 1635; he had a house at
Scituate by 1636, and his daughter Mary was baptized there 8 October 16 37 (NEHGR 10:42, 9;279, 281).

He became a Plymouth freeman 3 January 1636/37 (PCR 1:48). In 1639 he m oved to Barnstable with the Lothrop group. On 10 October 1643 the court ordered that if the townsmen of Barnstable did not appoint a place for t heir defense, it would have W.
Thomas Dinunack, Anthony Annable, Henry Cobb, Henry Cogan, and Bernard Lombard do it (PCR 2:65). On 2 June 1646 Bernard Lombard was on the gran d jury (PCR 2:102), a position he held a number of times. On 5
October 1652 he was approved by the court as ensign for the Barnstable
military company (PCR 3:17). On 9 June 1653 Gyles Rickard was presented for lascivious carriage toward Mary Lombard, the daughter of Bernard Lo mbard (PCR 3:36). His children were Thomas, who married Elizabeth Derby; Abigail (also called Abia), who married James Claghom; Mary, who marrie d George Lewis; Martha, who married John Martin; and Jabez, who married Sarah Derby. In his 1668/69 deposition, Bernard called William Clark of Yarmouth "Father Clarke" and testified to Claske's nuncupative will leav ing everything he had to Joseph Benjamin, Bernard's brother-law (MD 17:1 09).
Source: Plymouth Colony Its History & People 1620-1691 by Eugene Aubrey
Stratton

  Death Notes:

Death: 20 Feb 1668/9

Bernard married ??.