Robert CLENCH

                   (She was not surnamed Belgrave, Thomasine Belgrave was the wife of
another Frost named Edward.)
Alias: /Tamisin\Tamsen/
The English Ancestry of Thomasine(Clench) Frost, First Wife of Edmund
Frost of Cambridge, Massachusetts by Neil D. Thompson, NEHGR Vol 153,
July 1999:Page 279:
The discovery that Elder Edmund Frost, who came to New England with the
Rev. Thomas Shepard in 1635, was married by that minister at Earls Colne,
Essex, 16 April 1634 to his firstwife Thomasine [Thomas-Anne- in
Cambridge records] Clenche, has led to further examination of the
parentage and ancestry of these early New England settlers that is still
ongoing. While there was a family of Clench[e] or Clinch[e]centered at
Ludlow, Shropshire, as early as Sept. 1582, no connection with the wife
of Edmond Frost can be made there, nor does it appear that the family
name originated in that part of England. As one might expect, better
fortune came from an examination of the extended family of Judge John
Clench of East Anglia, and it is with the father of Judge Clench and
great-grandfather ofthe wife of Thomasine (Clench ) Frost that these
observations begin. vii. Thomasine Clench, bp 6 Oct. 1608; m. at Earls
Colne, Essex, 16 April 1634, by Rev. Thomas Shepard, Edmund Frost.