Whitaker Descendants

Whitaker Family

Page Updated 23 Aug 2003

Descendants of Thomas Whitaker of the Holme

Updated 28 Aug 2004

Generation One

1. Thomas1 Whitaker of the Holme was born circa 1400? at Lancashire, England; living in 1431.

Children of Thomas1 Whitaker of the Holme include:
+ 2 i. Robert, Thomas2 Whitaker II, married Johannah _____ Whitaker; born 1458 at Lancs., England.

Generation Two

2. Robert, Thomas2 Whitaker II (Thomas1) married Johannah _____. He was born in 1458 at Lancs., England. He died in 1529 at Lancs., England.

Children of Robert, Thomas2 Whitaker II and Johannah _____ Whitaker were:
+ 3 i. Richard, Thomas3 Whitaker III, born 1504; married Elizabeth Nowell.

Generation Three

3. Richard, Thomas3 Whitaker III (Robert,2, Thomas1) was born in 1504. He married Elizabeth Nowell, daughter of John Nowell Esq. of Read, in 1530. He died in 1599.

Children of Richard, Thomas3 Whitaker III and Elizabeth Nowell all born at Lancs., England, were as follows:
4 i. Robert4 Whitaker; born circa 1531.
5 ii. Richard Whitaker; born circa 1533?
+ 6 iii. William Whitaker D.D, married Miss Culverwell; married Joan Taylor Mrs. Dr. Fenner; born circa 1548.

Generation Four

6. William4 Whitaker D.D. (Richard,3, Robert,2, Thomas1) was born circa 1548 at Lancs., England. He died on 4 Dec 1595. He married 1st Miss Culverwell, daughter of Nicholas Culverwell; and 2nd Joan Taylor (widow of Dr. Fenner). He was Master of St. John's College at Cambridge, England.

Children of Rev. William4 Whitaker and Miss Culverwell all b. at England were as follows:
7 i. Frances5 Whitaker; b. circa 1575?
8 ii. Susanna Whitaker; m. Mr. Lothrop; b. circa 1578?
9 iii. Mary Whitaker; m. Raynes Clarke; b. circa 1580?
10 iv. Samuel Whitaker; b. circa 1582?; d. before 3 Sep 1617; when, on his death, the administration of brother Alexander's estate was granted to their sister Susan Lothrop.
11 v. Alexander Whitaker; b. 1585; d. before 4 Aug 1617 at James River, VA; when will was probated in London. He drowned; never married.
He immigrated in 1611 to Henrico Co., VA; had a good parish in northern England but gave it up to come to Virginia; was called "the Apostle of Virginia"; was author of Good News from Virginia. He left a will on 16 Feb 1611 at Blackfriars, London, England; ALEXANDER WHITAKER of Blackfriars, London, now crossing the seas to Virginia. Bequests to: my brothers SAMUEL, WILLIAM and JABEZ WHITAKER; my sisters FRANCES WHITAKER, SUSANNA LOTHROP, and MARY CLARKE, wife of RAYNES CLARKE; my cousin WILLIAM GOUGE. I leave to my brother SAMUEL my Bill of Adventure to Virginia and the profits thereof if I die without issue. Christopher Levitt, linen draper of the City of York, my cousin ANTHONY CULVERWELL and Mr. Crashawe owe me money. Sir Henry Griffith of Burton Agnes, Yorkshire, owes me for a chest of viols. Exec. to be my said brother SAMUEL and overseer my cousin WILLIAM GOUCHE of Blackfriars, clerk.
Wits: RICHARD CULVERWELL and CALEB GOUGE.
Pr. 4 Aug 1617 in Commissary Court of London by SAMUEL WHITAKER and, on his death, admin. granted in PCC 3 Sep 1617 to the sister SUSAN LOTHROP.

12 vi. William Whitaker; b. circa 1587?
13 vii. Richard Whitaker; b. circa 1590?

Children of Rev. William4 Whitaker and Joan Taylor Mrs. Dr. Fenner were:
+ 14 i. Jabez5 Whitaker, b. 6 Dec 1595 at Lambeth, England.

Alexander Whitaker was M.A. from Cambridge Univ. ca 1604; had a good parish in northern England, but gave it up to come as a missionary to Virginia. He immigrated in 1611 to Henrico Co., VA. He was called "the Apostle of Virginia"; was author of Good News from Virginia. Living at his parsonage "Rock Hall" in Henrico Parish opposite Jamestown, he converted and baptized Powhatan Princess Pocohantas in 1616, while she stayed at his home. A painting of her baptism hangs in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. He performed her marriage to John Rolfe.

 

 St. John's Episcopal Church of Henrico Parish was moved about 100 years later to the City of Richmond and is today its oldest church -- the home church of Patrick Henry who, when they hosted the Second Virginia Convention in 1775, gave his famous challenge, "Give me Liberty or give me Death!"

Alexander Whitaker's baptismal font can be seen today in the church, where costumed docents reenact some of the church's history.

 "American Wills proved in London (1611-1775).

Alexander Whitaker of Blackfriars, London, now crossing the seas to Va.,
dated 16 Feb., 1611. Bequests to: my brothers Samuel, William and Jabez
Whitaker; my sisters Frances Whitaker, Susanna Lothrop, and Mary Clarke, wife
of Raynes Clarke; my cousin William Gouge. I leave to my brother Samuel my
Bill of Adventure to Va. and the profits thereof if I die without issue.
Christopher Levitt, linen draper of the City of York, my cousin Anthony
Culverwell and Mr. Crashawe owe me money. Sir Henry Griffith of Burton Agnes, Yorks., owes me for a chest of viols. Exec. to be my said brother Samuel and overseer my cousin William Gouche of Blackfriars, clerk.

Wits: Richard Culverwell and Caleb Gouge.

Pr. 4 Aug 1617 in Commissary Court of London by Samuel Whitaker and, on his death, admin. granted in PCC 3 Sep 1617 to the sister Susan Lothrop.

(Guildhall: 9171/23/75 & PRO: PCC PROB
11/130/95).

Generation Five

14. Jabez5 Whitaker (William4, Thomas3, Thomas2, Thomas1) was born on 6 Dec 1595 at Lambeth, England; posthumous son. He married Lady Mary M. Bourchier, daughter of Sir John Bourchier and Elizabeth Verney, circa 1616 at Hanging Grimston, Yorkshire, England. He died after 1649? He immigrated in Nov 1619 to Jamestown, VA; was sent to VA with the rank of Lt. by the Virginia Company, in charge of tenants for one of the plantations known as the College land -- set aside for the endowment of an Indian College "for the training up of the children of those Infidels in true Religion, moral virtue and Civility." By November he settled near Jamestown in charge of fifty colonists, and gave a "good acompt of the trust reposed in him." In May 1621, he wrote a long letter describing his activities to his "very loving friend Sr. Edwin Sandys," who had succeeded him as treasurer of the company in spring of 1619. He left Virginia in 1628; left VA -- for England? He immigrated in 1649 to Barbadoes; per Cary Adams. He was in VA 1626 when his Jabez's father-in-law wrote ordering him home to his wife and child; and soon afterwards they were in Virginia. Jabez constructed a guest house at Jamestown which was in effect the first hospital in America, and he invented the Virginia split-rail fence. Both Jabez and his only known son William served as Burgesses in Virginia.

Children of Jabez5 Whitaker and Lady Mary M. Bourchier were:
+ 15 i. Col. William6 Whitaker, b. 1618 at Surry Co., England; m. Mary Elizabeth Camm.

 

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Bibliography

Allen, Sarah. Our Children's Ancestry. 1935.

Cook, Anna Maria Green. History of Baldwin Co., Georgia. Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Co., 1925, reprinted 1978.

Gunter, Agnes Wiggins. "Family Group Sheet of Angess Wiggins Gunter." Apex, NC.

Indexed by Joyce Bridges. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of De Soto Parish, Louisiana. 1989.

Moss. Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution.

National Archives.

Camden District, South Carolina, Wills and Administrations 1781-1787.

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Willie McKemie and John Cantzon Foster for generously sharing their descendant data.

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