Section KV: Descendants of John Clerke

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Report generated by MagiCensus Deluxe v5.5.5 on 16 Sept. 2024
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Generation One

1. JOHN1 CLERKE of Ford, Kent, England, United Kingdom was born between 1383 and 1539, and died between 1443 and 1649.
Child:
+2i.JAMES2 CLERKE, b. about 1490; d. on 20 Sept. 1553[1]; m. about 1508[6] (QC-41) ELIZABETH FERRERS, daughter of (QC-40) Sir Henry and (UT-2) Margaret (HECKSTALL).

Generation Two

2. JAMES2 CLERKE (John1), son of (1) John1 CLERKE, was born between 1449/50 and 1496, and died on 20 Sept. 1553[1]. He married about 1508[6], (QC-41) ELIZABETH FERRERS, daughter of (QC-40) Sir Henry and (UT-2) Margaret (HECKSTALL). [15]
Child:
+3i.GEORGE3 CLERKE, b. in 1510[1]; d. on 8 March 1558[1, 6]; m. (ATY-2) ELIZABETH WILSFORD, daughter of (ATY-1) Thomas WILSFORD.

Generation Three

3. GEORGE3 CLERKE (James2, John1), son of (2) James2 and (QC-41) Elizabeth (FERRERS) CLERKE, was born in 1510[1], and died on 8 March 1558[1, 6]. He married (ATY-2) ELIZABETH WILSFORD, daughter of (ATY-1) Thomas WILSFORD. [2, 10, 15]
Child:
+4i.JAMES4 CLERKE of East Farleigh, Kent, b. about 1540[1] of East Farleigh[1]; d. in 1614[1]; m. (AKT-2) MARY SAXBY, daughter of (AKT-1) Edward, Baron of the Exchequer.

Generation Four

4. JAMES4 CLERKE (George3, James2, John1) of East Farleigh, son of (3) George3 and (ATY-2) Elizabeth (WILSFORD) CLERKE, was born about 1540[1] of East Farleigh[1], and died in 1614[1]. He married (AKT-2) MARY SAXBY, daughter of (AKT-1) Edward, Baron of the Exchequer. [3, 6, 11, 15]
Child:
+5i.WILLIAM5 CLERKE of East Farleigh, b. about 1580 of East Farleigh[1]; d. about 1650; m. on 10 FEB 1598/9[6] (ATE-2) MARY WESTON, chr. on 26 April 1579[1], daughter of (ATE-1) Sir Jerome.

Generation Five

5. WILLIAM5 CLERKE (James4, George3, James2, John1) of East Farleigh, son of (4) James4 and (AKT-2) Mary (SAXBY) CLERKE, was born between 1545 and 1584/5, and died between 1604 and 1694/5. He married on 10 FEB 1598/9[6], (ATE-2) MARY WESTON, daughter of (ATE-1) Sir Jerome, who was christened on 26 April 1579[1]. [4, 6, 12, 15]
Child:
+6i.CAPT. JEREMY6 CLARKE, bp. on 1 Dec. 1605[1, 14] in East Farleigh[1, 14]; d. about 1651 in Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island, United States; m. about 1637[14] in England[14] (G-61) FRANCES (LATHAM) DUNGAN, chr. in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England[8, 14] on 15 FEB 1609/10[8, 14], d. in Newport[8, 14] in Sept. 1677[8, 14], daughter of (G-49) Lewis and Elizabeth (_____) LATHAM.

Generation Six

6. CAPT. JEREMY6 CLARKE (William5, James4, George3, James2, John1), son of (5) William5 and (ATE-2) Mary (WESTON) CLERKE, was christened on 1 Dec. 1605[1, 14] in East Farleigh[1, 14], and died between 1651 and 1652 in Newport. He married in England[14], about 1637[14], (G-61) FRANCES (LATHAM) DUNGAN, daughter of (G-49) Lewis and Elizabeth (_____) LATHAM, who was christened on 15 FEB 1609/10[8, 14] in Kempston[8, 14], died in Sept. 1677[8, 14] in Newport[8, 14], and was buried in Newport[14]. [5, 7, 13, 15, 16]
Children:
7i.WALTER7 CLARKE, GOVERNOR OF RHODE ISLAND, b. in 1640[9] in Newport[9]; d. on 23 May 1714; m. CONTENT GREENMAN.
8ii.MARY CLARKE, b. in 1641 in Newport; d. on 7 April 1711; m. GOV. JOHN CRANSTON.
9iii.WESTON CLARKE, b. on 5 April 1648[9] in Newport[9]; d. about 1740[9].
10iv.REV. JAMES CLARKE, b. in 1649[9] in Newport[9]; d. on 1 Dec. 1736[9] in Newport[9].


1. Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999).
2. Ibid., (11-38).
3. Ibid., (11-39).
4. Ibid., (11-40).
5. Ibid., (11-41, 220-41).
6. von Redlich, Marcellus Donald Alexander R., Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. I (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1941), 154.
7. Ibid., 154,253.
8. J. Orton Buck and Timothy Field Beard, Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978), 138.
9. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 5th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999).
10. Ibid., (100-13).
11. Ibid., (100-14).
12. Ibid., (100-15).
13. Ibid., (100-16).
14. Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), 211.
15. Gary Boyd Roberts, Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002), 248.
16. Ancestral File, CD-ROM database (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1998).