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Elizabeth WELLER 1593–1652 – Genealogical Records
Birth Date: 2 SEP 1593
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Death Date: 22 MAY 1652
Death Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Father: Dence WELLER
Mother: Joan HOVENDEN
Spouse(s): Robert COURTHOPE, Samuel COLVILLE
Children(s): Katherine COURTHOPE, Robert COURTHOPE, Jane COURTHOPE, Peter COURTHOPE, Elizabeth COURTHOPE, Francis COURTHOPE, Henry COURTHOPE, Ann COURTHOPE, Anne COURTHOPE
Elizabeth WELLER was born in 1593 in Cranbrook, Kent, England., the child of Dence Weller And Joan Hovenden. Elizabeth WELLER married Robert Courthope, Samuel Colville, and had children including Ann Courthope, Anne Courthope, Elizabeth Courthope, Francis Courthope, Henry Courthope, Jane Courthope, Katherine Courthope, Peter Courthope, Robert Courthope. Elizabeth WELLER passed away in 1652 in Cranbrook, Kent, England..
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Biography
- Elizabeth WELLER was born in 1593 in Cranbrook, Kent, England., the child of Dence Weller And Joan Hovenden.
- Elizabeth WELLER married Robert Courthope, Samuel Colville, and had children including Ann Courthope, Anne Courthope, Elizabeth Courthope, Francis Courthope, Henry Courthope, Jane Courthope, Katherine Courthope, Peter Courthope, Robert Courthope.
- Elizabeth WELLER passed away in 1652 in Cranbrook, Kent, England..
Immediate Family
Parents
Dence WELLER
1566–1619
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
DW
Joan HOVENDEN
1568–1637
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
JH
Spouses(s)
Robert COURTHOPE
1596–1642
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
RC
Samuel COLVILLE
1591–1619
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
SC
Children(s)
Katherine COURTHOPE
1634–1705
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
KC
Robert COURTHOPE
1621–
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
RC
Jane COURTHOPE
1622–
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
JC
Peter COURTHOPE
1624–
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
PC
Elizabeth COURTHOPE
1626–1656
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
EC
Francis COURTHOPE
1628–
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
FC
Henry COURTHOPE
1630–
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
HC
Ann COURTHOPE
1632–1632
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
AC
Anne COURTHOPE
1638–
Birth Location: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
AC
Elizabeth WELLER's Ancestors
Self
Elizabeth WELLER
1593–1652
Birth Place: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Parents
Dence WELLER
1566–1619
Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Joan HOVENDEN
1568–1637
Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Grandparents
Alexander WELLER
1540–1596
Elizabeth DENCE
–1606
Richard HOVENDON
1548–1598
Biddenden, Kent, England.
Alyce SHEAFFE
1541–1607
Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Great-Grandparents
William HOVENDEN
–1585
Joan BISHOP
–1580
Richard SHEAF
1505–1554
Elizabeth ANDREWS
1510–1564
2nd-Great-Grandparents
Thomas Jnr.
1470–1520
Alice HENDLEY
1472–1520
Gyles ANDREWS
1478–1527
Agnes FORSTER
1484–1540
Elizabeth WELLER's Descendants
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Elizabeth WELLER
(2 SEP 1593–22 MAY 1652)
m. Robert COURTHOPE (30 MAY 1596–26 APR 1642)
m. Samuel COLVILLE (21 FEB 1591–14 APR 1619)
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1. Katherine COURTHOPE 1634–1705 m. John COGGER 1631–1694
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1. Martha GOGGER 1661–1704 m. John (TURK Snr.) II. 1657–1698
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1. John (TURK) Jnr. 1691–1729 m. Mary BAKER 1700–1754
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1. John TURK 1725–1803 m. Sarah BATHAM 1725–1780
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2. William TURK 1721–1800 m. Margaret PELHAM 1725–1752
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3. Elizaberth TURK 1724–1724
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4. Thomas TURK 1728–1800 m. Sarah VANE 1729–1809
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2. Sarah TURKE 1683–1771 m. Thomas MANWARING 1688–
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1. Mary MANWARING 1717–1788 m. Richard BROOKER 1711–1783
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2. Sarah MANWARING 1719–1783 m. George CRITTALL 1721–1765
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3. Elizabeth MANWARING 1723–1796 m. Daniel LATTER 1722–1794
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4. Thomas MANWARING 1726–1807 m. Mary MACE 1727–1809
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5. Ann MANWARING 1726–1808 m. William HOLLAMBY 1726–1792
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6. William MANWARING 1731–
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3. Martha TURK 1686–
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4. William TURK 1688–1773 m. Ann PARIS 1701–1740
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1. Mary TURK 1723–
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2. John TURK 1727–1793 m. Sarah BAKER 1727–1780
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3. Thomas TURK 1729–1729
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4. Anne TURK 1735–1765
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5. Walter TURK 1738–1743
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5. Charles TURK 1693–1697
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6. Richard TURK 1697–1703
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2. Elizabeth COGGER 1661–1725 m. John CHITTENDEN 1663–1694 m. Thomas KADWELL 1644–1712
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1. Elizabeth CHITTENDEN 1689–
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2. John CHITTENDEN 1694–
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3. Thomas KADWELL 1695–1711
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4. Mary KADWELL 1696–1760 m. John PATIENCE 1695–1763
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1. Elizabeth PATIENCE 1721– m. Robert FULLER 1711–1744 m. William RELF 1724–1798
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5. William KADWELL 1698–1718
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6. George KADWELL 1700–1722
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7. Martha KADWELL 1704–1720
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8. Hannah KADWELL 1706–1778 m. William NEWSHAM 1697–1753
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1. Elizabeth NEWSHAM 1725–
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2. William NEWSHAM 1726–
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3. George NEWSHAM 1728–1789
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4. Ann NEWSHAM 1732–
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5. Elizabeth NEWSHAM 1734–
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6. John NEWSHAM 1738–1778 m. Mary DAWES 1738–1799
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7. Mary NEWSHAM 1741–1742
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8. Emanuel NEWSHAM 1743–1778 m. Elizabeth HONICE 1743–1778
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9. Thomas NEWSHAM 1745–1815 m. Elizabeth ASHDOWN 1752–
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3. John COGGER 1664–1746 m. Mary GOLDSTONE 1666–1698 m. Dinah APPS 1660–1735
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1. John COGGER 1688–1699
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2. Katherine COGGER 1691– m. John ILDEN 1681–1753
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1. Mary ILDEN 1719– m. William POTTER 1717–1744
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3. William COGGER 1693–1733 m. Margaret MUNDAY 1696–
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1. Margaret COGGER 1719–1721
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2. Mary COGGER 1717–1718
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3. George COGGER 1721–1749
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4. William COGGER 1723–1755 m. Susanna LITTLE 1722–1771
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5. Sarah COGGER 1725–1766 m. Thomas PILE 1721–1785
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6. John COGGER 1727–1727
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7. Elizabeth COGGER 1728–1755 m. John BAKER 1725–
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8. Frances COGGER 1730–1812 m. William KADWELL 1725–1807
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9. Katherine COGGER 1732–1734
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10. John COGGER 1734–
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4. Mary COGGER 1695–
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5. Joseph COGGER 1702–1777 m. Mary ACRES 1713–1782
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1. Jane COGGER 1740–1740
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2. Mary COGGER 1733–1765 m. Thomas KING 1727–1810
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3. Dinah COGGER 1735–1772 m. Leonard HOLLAND 1729–1799
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4. John COGGER 1741–1779 m. Sarah HUBBARD 1742–
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5. Elizabeth COGGER 1745–1824 m. John BURGESS 1743–1811
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6. Judith COGGER 1750–1830 m. Thomas (GREENALL) Revd. 1742–1814
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7. Joseph COGGER 1738–1798 m. Elizabeth GRIGSBY 1744–1795
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6. John COGGER 1700–1779 m. Judith GRIFFITHS 1694–1746 m. Catherine BARTON 1705–
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1. John COGGER 1722–
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2. Judith COGGER 1723–1760 m. John LOUD 1722–1771
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3. John COGGER 1726–1783 m. Mary RUMMINS 1726–1790
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4. William COGGER 1728–1811 m. Sarah WILLIAMS 1729–1803
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5. Sarah COGGER 1731–
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6. Martha COGGER 1734–
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4. Marie COGGER 1657–1685 m. Thomas HAINES 1652–1689
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1. Mary HEINES 1681–
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5. Elizabeth COGGER 1653–1657
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6. Stil (Borne Child) COGGER 1660–1660
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7. John COGGER 1655–1664
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2. Robert COURTHOPE 1621–
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3. Jane COURTHOPE 1622–
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4. Peter COURTHOPE 1624–
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5. Elizabeth COURTHOPE 1626–1656 m. William BRAND 1620–
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6. Francis COURTHOPE 1628–
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7. Henry COURTHOPE 1630–
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8. Ann COURTHOPE 1632–1632
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9. Anne COURTHOPE 1638–
Elizabeth WELLER's Timeline
3 Records
1593
2 SEP 1593
Birth of Elizabeth WELLER in Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Cranbrook, Kent, England.
1607
28 MAR 1607
Age 14
Elizabeth WELLER resided here in Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Cranbrook, Kent, England.
1652
22 MAY 1652
Age 59
Death of Elizabeth WELLER in Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Cranbrook, Kent, England.
1593
2 SEP 1593
Birth of Elizabeth WELLER in Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Cranbrook, Kent, England.
1607
28 MAR 1607
Age 14
Elizabeth WELLER resided here in Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Cranbrook, Kent, England.
1652
22 MAY 1652
Age 59
Death of Elizabeth WELLER in Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Sources
Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 2 SEP 1593
Event Place: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 28 MAR 1607
Event Place: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 1590 AND 1655
Event Place: I am including historical Events, which may or may not have had an impact on my ancestral families.
Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1596
Event Place: The first water closet, by Sir John Harington, is installed in a manor near Kelston in England. Named the "Ajax," this device was a precursor to the modern flush toilet. He also installed one for his godmother, Queen Elizabeth I, at Richmond Palace.
Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1596
Event Place: The fourth year in a five-year period of poor harvests in Europe, which led to widespread famine and food riots. This severe period of bad harvests was largely caused by persistent wet and cloudy weather, a pattern typical of the late 16th century.
Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 22 MAY 1652
Event Place: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 1590 AND 1655
Event Place: England had three monarchs: Elizabeth I (until 1603), followed by James I (1603-1625), and Charles I (1625-1649), with a period of republican rule (the Interregnum) after Charles I's execution, meaning no monarch ruled from 1649 to 1655.
Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 1592 AND 1593
Event Place: A significant outbreak of bubonic plague that resulted in an estimated 10,000-15,000 deaths in London and affected other parts of England.
Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 21 DEC 1592
Event Place: The city of London begins publishing the Bill of Mortality, the first regular data of deaths from an epidemic, as the government reports its weekly survey of the number of burials in the 113 parishes of London of deaths from bubonic plague.
Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1597
Event Place: Vagabonds Act of 1597: This act aimed to punish "rogues, vagabonds and sturdy beggars".
Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 13 APR 1598
Event Place: The Edict of Nantes, signed by King Henry IV of France, granted substantial rights to the Calvinist Protestant minority (Huguenots) in a predominantly Catholic France. It ended the French Wars of Religion by providing religious tolerance.
Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1 JAN 1600
Event Place: Scotland changed its New Year's Day from March 25 to January 1 in 1599, ahead of England, which made the change in 1752.
Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 24 MAR 1603
Event Place: Queen Elizabeth I of England died at Richmond Palace. She is succeeded by King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England. Queen Elizabeth I was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, who reigned from 1558 to 1603.
Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 17 JUL 1603
Event Place: Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned in the Tower of London for treason against the new King James I. Following a manhunt, he was tracked down and arrested, then charged after King James I's accession to the throne and the death of Queen Elizabeth I.
Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 25 JUL 1603
Event Place: The formal coronation of James I as King of England took place at Westminster Abbey. This ceremony also crowned his wife, Anne of Denmark, as queen and marked the union of the crowns of Scotland and England under one monarch.
Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1604
Event Place: A Table Alphabeticall, published in 1604 by Robert Cawdrey, was the first English dictionary to be organized alphabetically, containing definitions for about 2,500 "hard words".
Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 11 MAR 1605
Event Place: A proclamation by the Irish Council declared that all people of Ireland were free and natural subjects of King James I, directly under the Crown and not subject to any local lord or chief. An effort to consolidate royal authority in Ireland and establish a unified legal and political system.
Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 24 JAN 1606
Event Place: Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators, for plotting against Parliament and James I of England, begins in London.
Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 14 MAY 1607
Event Place: English settlers founded the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in America, in what is now Virginia.
Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET DEC 1607 AND FEB 1608
Event Place: The severe cold began in December 1607. The River Thames became frozen enough for people to walk on by January 1608 and started to thaw and break up around February 1-2, 1608.
Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 15 AUG 1609
Event Place: English astronomer Thomas Harriot becomes the first person to make a detailed drawing of the Moon, based on his observations through a telescope.
Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 12 OCT 1609
Event Place: A version of the rhyme Three Blind Mice is published in London. The editor, and possible author of the verse, is the teenage Thomas Ravenscroft.
Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 18 DEC 1610
Event Place: English astronomer Thomas Harriot becomes the first person on Earth to observe sunspots through a telescope.
Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 2 MAY 1611
Event Place: The Authorized King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time, printed by Robert Barker in London. The Authorized King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time, printed by Robert Barker in London.
Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 10 APR 1612
Event Place: 12 persons known as the Pendle witches allegedly hold a coven at the Malkin Tower in Lancashire on Good Friday, after which 10 people die mysteriously.
Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 13 APR 1613
Event Place: English Captain Samuel Argall, kidnapped Pocahontas at the Patawomeck town of Passapatanzy to use her as a hostage for ransom.
Genealogy Event 27
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 20 JUL 1613
Event Place: The first American-grown tobacco, produced in the British colony of Virginia, arrives in England after being dispatched 22 days earlier by John Rolfe.
Genealogy Event 28
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 25 OCT 1616
Event Place: Western Australia, Australia.
Genealogy Event 29
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 25 DEC 1616
Event Place: "Father Christmas" is a main character of Christmas, His Masque, presented at the court of King James I of England. Father Christmas is considered a papist symbol by Puritans, and later banished from England until the English Restoration.
Genealogy Event 30
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 21 MAR 1617
Event Place: Pocahontas, daughter of the Chief of the Powhatan Algonquian tribe in Virginia, wife of English colonist John Rolfe, dies of smallpox after an illness of three days contracted as the couple and their son were preparing to return to America.
Genealogy Event 31
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 29 OCT 1618
Event Place: English adventurer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded at the Palace of Westminster, for allegedly conspiring treasonably against James I of England in 1603.
Genealogy Event 32
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 13 MAY 1619
Event Place: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England.
Genealogy Event 33
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1620
Event Place: While the year 1620 had a severe frost, historical records show that the River Thames did not fully freeze over in that year. Londoners experienced severe winters in the 1620s, but the Thames was last frozen solid enough for a Frost Fair in 1814.
Genealogy Event 34
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 16 SEP 1620
Event Place: Mayflower departs from Plymouth in England on her third attempt to cross the Atlantic.
Genealogy Event 35
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 27 MAR 1625
Event Place: The bubonic plague outbreak in London in 1625 resulted in approximately 35,000 deaths. This epidemic was a significant event in the 17th century, a period when London experienced recurring plague outbreaks.
Genealogy Event 36
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1625
Event Place: England's first chocolate house opened in London in the same year tea was first sold as a beverage in England by a coffee house owner, while coffee was introduced to France around the same time.
Genealogy Event 37
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 19 JUN 1629
Event Place: Yarmouth, Hampshire, England.
Genealogy Event 38
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1631
Event Place: A poor harvest for the second consecutive year resulted in widespread social unrest, driven by hunger and hardship. The social and economic fallout from the poor harvests, combined with other factors, led to significant unrest that year.
Genealogy Event 39
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 24 NOV 1642
Event Place: Abel Tasman and his crew became the first Europeans to discover "Van Diemen's Land", later the Australian island and state of Tasmania.
Genealogy Event 40
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 13 DEC 1642
Event Place: Abel Tasman and his crew become the first recorded Europeans to sight New Zealand, arriving at its South Island. In a battle between the Europeans and the Island's Maori inhabitants, four crew members are killed.
Genealogy Event 41
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: DEC 1644
Event Place: Bubonic plague arrived in Edinburgh, spreading rapidly due to dense, unsanitary living conditions within the city's walls. The disease, arrived around Christmas, caused significant chaos and led to a devastating outbreak that lasted for years.
Genealogy Event 42
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1645
Event Place: Wallpaper began to replace tapestries as a wall decoration because it was a more affordable alternative for people who wanted to adorn their walls with color and patterns, but couldn't afford expensive tapestries
Genealogy Event 43
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 28 DEC 1647
Event Place: King Charles of England promises church reform. This agreement leads to the Second English Civil War.
Genealogy Event 44
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 30 JAN 1649
Event Place: Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, Greater London, Middlesex, England.
Genealogy Event 45
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1 JAN 1651
Event Place: Charles II is crowned King of Scots at Scone (his first crowning). On Oct 16, Prince Charles of the House of Stuart escaped from England to find refuge in France.
Genealogy Event 46
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 16 DEC 1654
Event Place: The Instrument of Government in England becomes Britain's first written constitution, under which Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 2 SEP 1593
Event Place: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 28 MAR 1607
Event Place: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 1590 AND 1655
Event Place: I am including historical Events, which may or may not have had an impact on my ancestral families.
Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1596
Event Place: The first water closet, by Sir John Harington, is installed in a manor near Kelston in England. Named the "Ajax," this device was a precursor to the modern flush toilet. He also installed one for his godmother, Queen Elizabeth I, at Richmond Palace.
Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1596
Event Place: The fourth year in a five-year period of poor harvests in Europe, which led to widespread famine and food riots. This severe period of bad harvests was largely caused by persistent wet and cloudy weather, a pattern typical of the late 16th century.
Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 22 MAY 1652
Event Place: Cranbrook, Kent, England.
Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 1590 AND 1655
Event Place: England had three monarchs: Elizabeth I (until 1603), followed by James I (1603-1625), and Charles I (1625-1649), with a period of republican rule (the Interregnum) after Charles I's execution, meaning no monarch ruled from 1649 to 1655.
Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 1592 AND 1593
Event Place: A significant outbreak of bubonic plague that resulted in an estimated 10,000-15,000 deaths in London and affected other parts of England.
Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 21 DEC 1592
Event Place: The city of London begins publishing the Bill of Mortality, the first regular data of deaths from an epidemic, as the government reports its weekly survey of the number of burials in the 113 parishes of London of deaths from bubonic plague.
Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1597
Event Place: Vagabonds Act of 1597: This act aimed to punish "rogues, vagabonds and sturdy beggars".
Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 13 APR 1598
Event Place: The Edict of Nantes, signed by King Henry IV of France, granted substantial rights to the Calvinist Protestant minority (Huguenots) in a predominantly Catholic France. It ended the French Wars of Religion by providing religious tolerance.
Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1 JAN 1600
Event Place: Scotland changed its New Year's Day from March 25 to January 1 in 1599, ahead of England, which made the change in 1752.
Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 24 MAR 1603
Event Place: Queen Elizabeth I of England died at Richmond Palace. She is succeeded by King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England. Queen Elizabeth I was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, who reigned from 1558 to 1603.
Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 17 JUL 1603
Event Place: Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned in the Tower of London for treason against the new King James I. Following a manhunt, he was tracked down and arrested, then charged after King James I's accession to the throne and the death of Queen Elizabeth I.
Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 25 JUL 1603
Event Place: The formal coronation of James I as King of England took place at Westminster Abbey. This ceremony also crowned his wife, Anne of Denmark, as queen and marked the union of the crowns of Scotland and England under one monarch.
Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1604
Event Place: A Table Alphabeticall, published in 1604 by Robert Cawdrey, was the first English dictionary to be organized alphabetically, containing definitions for about 2,500 "hard words".
Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 11 MAR 1605
Event Place: A proclamation by the Irish Council declared that all people of Ireland were free and natural subjects of King James I, directly under the Crown and not subject to any local lord or chief. An effort to consolidate royal authority in Ireland and establish a unified legal and political system.
Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 24 JAN 1606
Event Place: Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators, for plotting against Parliament and James I of England, begins in London.
Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 14 MAY 1607
Event Place: English settlers founded the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in America, in what is now Virginia.
Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET DEC 1607 AND FEB 1608
Event Place: The severe cold began in December 1607. The River Thames became frozen enough for people to walk on by January 1608 and started to thaw and break up around February 1-2, 1608.
Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 15 AUG 1609
Event Place: English astronomer Thomas Harriot becomes the first person to make a detailed drawing of the Moon, based on his observations through a telescope.
Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 12 OCT 1609
Event Place: A version of the rhyme Three Blind Mice is published in London. The editor, and possible author of the verse, is the teenage Thomas Ravenscroft.
Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 18 DEC 1610
Event Place: English astronomer Thomas Harriot becomes the first person on Earth to observe sunspots through a telescope.
Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 2 MAY 1611
Event Place: The Authorized King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time, printed by Robert Barker in London. The Authorized King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time, printed by Robert Barker in London.
Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 10 APR 1612
Event Place: 12 persons known as the Pendle witches allegedly hold a coven at the Malkin Tower in Lancashire on Good Friday, after which 10 people die mysteriously.
Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 13 APR 1613
Event Place: English Captain Samuel Argall, kidnapped Pocahontas at the Patawomeck town of Passapatanzy to use her as a hostage for ransom.
Genealogy Event 27
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 20 JUL 1613
Event Place: The first American-grown tobacco, produced in the British colony of Virginia, arrives in England after being dispatched 22 days earlier by John Rolfe.
Genealogy Event 28
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 25 OCT 1616
Event Place: Western Australia, Australia.
Genealogy Event 29
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 25 DEC 1616
Event Place: "Father Christmas" is a main character of Christmas, His Masque, presented at the court of King James I of England. Father Christmas is considered a papist symbol by Puritans, and later banished from England until the English Restoration.
Genealogy Event 30
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 21 MAR 1617
Event Place: Pocahontas, daughter of the Chief of the Powhatan Algonquian tribe in Virginia, wife of English colonist John Rolfe, dies of smallpox after an illness of three days contracted as the couple and their son were preparing to return to America.
Genealogy Event 31
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 29 OCT 1618
Event Place: English adventurer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded at the Palace of Westminster, for allegedly conspiring treasonably against James I of England in 1603.
Genealogy Event 32
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 13 MAY 1619
Event Place: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England.
Genealogy Event 33
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1620
Event Place: While the year 1620 had a severe frost, historical records show that the River Thames did not fully freeze over in that year. Londoners experienced severe winters in the 1620s, but the Thames was last frozen solid enough for a Frost Fair in 1814.
Genealogy Event 34
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 16 SEP 1620
Event Place: Mayflower departs from Plymouth in England on her third attempt to cross the Atlantic.
Genealogy Event 35
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 27 MAR 1625
Event Place: The bubonic plague outbreak in London in 1625 resulted in approximately 35,000 deaths. This epidemic was a significant event in the 17th century, a period when London experienced recurring plague outbreaks.
Genealogy Event 36
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1625
Event Place: England's first chocolate house opened in London in the same year tea was first sold as a beverage in England by a coffee house owner, while coffee was introduced to France around the same time.
Genealogy Event 37
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 19 JUN 1629
Event Place: Yarmouth, Hampshire, England.
Genealogy Event 38
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1631
Event Place: A poor harvest for the second consecutive year resulted in widespread social unrest, driven by hunger and hardship. The social and economic fallout from the poor harvests, combined with other factors, led to significant unrest that year.
Genealogy Event 39
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 24 NOV 1642
Event Place: Abel Tasman and his crew became the first Europeans to discover "Van Diemen's Land", later the Australian island and state of Tasmania.
Genealogy Event 40
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 13 DEC 1642
Event Place: Abel Tasman and his crew become the first recorded Europeans to sight New Zealand, arriving at its South Island. In a battle between the Europeans and the Island's Maori inhabitants, four crew members are killed.
Genealogy Event 41
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: DEC 1644
Event Place: Bubonic plague arrived in Edinburgh, spreading rapidly due to dense, unsanitary living conditions within the city's walls. The disease, arrived around Christmas, caused significant chaos and led to a devastating outbreak that lasted for years.
Genealogy Event 42
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1645
Event Place: Wallpaper began to replace tapestries as a wall decoration because it was a more affordable alternative for people who wanted to adorn their walls with color and patterns, but couldn't afford expensive tapestries
Genealogy Event 43
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 28 DEC 1647
Event Place: King Charles of England promises church reform. This agreement leads to the Second English Civil War.
Genealogy Event 44
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 30 JAN 1649
Event Place: Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, Greater London, Middlesex, England.
Genealogy Event 45
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1 JAN 1651
Event Place: Charles II is crowned King of Scots at Scone (his first crowning). On Oct 16, Prince Charles of the House of Stuart escaped from England to find refuge in France.
Genealogy Event 46
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 16 DEC 1654
Event Place: The Instrument of Government in England becomes Britain's first written constitution, under which Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.