Ann Calva (1515)

Born 1515 in Germany

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Ann was the daughter and heiress of John Calva, a German. Her birth date is not known and has been estimated on the basis that the first of her children was likely to have been born in the 1530s.^[1][2][3] Her husband's memorial inscription at North Ockendon, Essex states that she was born in Germany.^[4] Her husband's Latin memorial inscription states that he "married Anna van Calva, daughter and co-heir of John Calva, armiger, born in Germany, by whom he had sons Gabriel, Ferdinando and Robert and one daughter Susanna."^[5]

Ann married Thomas Poyntz, who was a merchant in Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands.^[1][2][3] They had four children, all said to have been born in Antwerp while their father was a merchant there:^[6]

• Gabriel,^[1][2][3] said in a book on the Poyntz family by John Maclean to have been born in 1538^[7]
• Ferdinando,^[1] who became a London Merchant^[7]
• Robert^[1][7]
• Susanna, who married Richard Saltonstall^[1][2][3][7]

Her husband was detained in the Netherlands after sheltering William Tyndale, translator of the Bible into English, who was arrested in 1535. Thomas escaped from prison and fled to England. Ann declined to go there with him.^[8][9][10] He subsequently returned to Antwerp, after being assured of a pardon. He was rearrested by the Catholic authorities of the Netherlands as a heretic^[11] but must have been released and returned to England, possibly by 1547, when he inherited from an older brother,^[12] and was buried in London.^[13] There is no evidence that Ann went to England with him after his second imprisonment.

Her children were probably born before her husband's imprisonment or after his return to Antwerp. They were given denization (naturalisation) as English subjects by an Act of Parliament in 1541-2: this refers to him as trading in Antwerp.^[14][15]

It is not known when Ann died.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} The Visitations of Essex, Part I, Harleian Society, 1878, pp. 91-92, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} 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. IV, p. 385, WYCHE 11, Google Books
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. V, pp. 414-415, WYCHE 11
4. ↑ William Palin. More about Stifford and its Neighbourhood past and present, privately printed, 1872, p. 120, Internet Archive
5. ↑ Translation by Michael Cayley
6. ↑ Frederic Chancellor. The Ancient Sepulchral Monuments of Essex, Edmund Currant and Co, 1890, pp. 183-184, Ancestry.co.uk
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} John Maclean. Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz, Part I, William Pollard, 1886, pp. 33- 38 and pedigree chart on p. 48, Internet Archive
8. ↑ David Daniell. William Tyndale, Yale University Press, 1901, pp. 362-372, partially viewable on Google Books
9. ↑ Brian Edwards. William Tyndale, the Father of the English Bible, William Tyndale College (Michigan), 2nd printing, 1982, pp. 148-157, Internet Archive
10. ↑ John Foxe. Acts and Monuments (Book of Martyrs), 1570 edition, pp. 1266, 1267 and 1268
11. ↑ 'Henry VIII: December 1544, 1-10', in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 19 Part 2, August-December 1544, ed. James Gairdner and R H Brodie (London, 1905), pp. 421-439, British History Online, accessed 19 December 2023
12. ↑ 'Parishes: North Ockendon', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 7, ed. W R Powell (London, 1978), pp. 110-117, British History Online, accessed 19 December 2023
13. ↑ Parish register of St Dunstan in the West, London,: transcripts and linked images in London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Ancestry.co.uk and Ancestry.co.uk
14. ↑ The Statutes of the Realm, Vol. 3, 1837, reprinted by Dawsons of OPall Mall, London, 1963, p. 865, Hathi Trust
15. ↑ 'Henry VIII: January 1542, 11-20', in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 17, 1542, ed. James Gairdner and R H Brodie (London, 1900), pp. 10-19, British History Online, accessed 19 December 2023