Elizabeth (Ferrers) Clerke (abt. 1480)

Born about 1480 in England

Ancestors

Wife of James (Clerke) Clark Esq. — married about 1508 in England

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in England

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Biography

Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry Ferrers and Margaret Hexstall.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Her birth date and place are not known. Her parents her parents were married by 14 November 1468,^[6] and she was a younger child. They had lands in more than one county.

Elizabeth married James Clerke of Forde Hall, Wrotham, Kent.^[3][4][7] Their marriage date is not known, but their son George was likely to have been born after 1510 and was probably their third son: Douglas Richardson and Alfred Rudulph Justice give an estimate of 1508.^[1][2][5] They had the following children:

• Henry^[1][5][7]
• Walter^[1][2][5][7]
• George^[1][2][5][7]
• John^[1][2][5][7]

Her death date is not known.

Research Notes

Father

The Harleian Society edition of Kent Visitations names her father as Edward Ferrers.^[7] This is a mistake. Edward Ferrers did have a daughter Elizabeth, but his Will shows that her husband was John Hampden.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. I, p. 482, CLARKE 12, Google Books
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. II, pp. 213-214, CLARKE 16
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} John Fetherston (ed.). The Visitation of Warwick in the year 1619, Harleian Society, 1877, p. 5, Internet Archive
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} W Harry Rylands (ed.). The Visitation of the County of Warwick 1682 and 1683, Harleian Society, 1911, pp. 165-166, Internet Archive
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6} Alfred Rudulph Justice. "Genealogical Research in England" in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 74, 1920. pp. 74-75, Internet Archive
6. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward IV and Henry VI, A.D. 1467-1477, HMSO, 1900, p. 123, Internet Archive
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5} W Bruce Bannerman (ed.). The Visitations of Kent, Part I, Harleian Society, 1923, p. 38, Familysearch

See Also:

• Faris, David. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-century Colonists, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996, pp. 64-65
• Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 8th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, p. 16, line 11/37

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 11 January 2023.

Elizabeth (Ferrers) Clerke appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Jeremy Clarke to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy (vol. I, pages 480-483 CLARKE). This trail was project-approved/badged in April 2016 by a Magna Carta Project member. The trail is set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of William Clerke's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".