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Eleanor Dare (née White; c. 1568 – disappeared 1587) of Westminster, London, England, was a member of the Roanoke Colony and the daughter of John White, the colony's governor. While little is known about her life, more is known about her than most of the sixteen other women who left England in 1587 as part of the Roanoke expedition.
"Eleanor, daughter to the governor and wife to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was delivered of a daughter in Roanoke." [ 17 ] The child was healthy and "was christened there the Sunday following, and because this child was the first Christian born in Virginia, [ 18 ] she was named Virginia."
These seven stones were catalogued as Dare Stone Numbers 25–31. Of particular note, Stone 26 establishes that Eleanor became the wife of a Native American chieftain in 1593, while Stone 28 mentions requests in 1598 that John White remove her daughter to England. Stone 25 represents Eleanor Dare's tombstone, placing her death in the year 1599.
Ananias Dare (c. 1560 – 1587, legal death) was a colonist of the Roanoke Colony of 1587. He was the husband of Eleanor White , whom he married at St Bride's Church [ 1 ] in London, and the father of Virginia Dare , the first English child born in America.
The Rising Shore - Roanoke is a novel about the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island by Deborah Homsher. [1] The story of the Lost Colony is one of America's first great mysteries. [citation needed] Historically, John White, the leader of the venture, sailed home to London for supplies and then returned three years later to find no trace of the hundred colonists he'd left in Virginia except the word ...
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Little is known of the lives of either of her parents. Her mother Eleanor was born in London around 1563 and was the daughter of John White, the governor of the ill-fated Roanoke Colony. Eleanor married Ananias Dare (born c. 1560), a London tiler and bricklayer, [3] at St Bride's Church [4] on Fleet Street in the City of London. [5]
English-born actress Katherine Cale starred as Eleanor Dare, Virginia's mother, while Lillian Ashton portrayed Queen Elizabeth I, Earl Mayo played the comic Old Tom, and Jack Lee narrated the production as The Historian. [12]