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Joan was William Shakespeare's younger sister. [a] She married a hatter named William Hart with whom she had four children, William (1600–1639), Mary (1603–1606), Thomas (1605–1661), and Michael (1608–1618). She may have been a secret Catholic, the author of the "J. Shakespeare" who wrote a Catholic testament.
Painting of John Smith and colonists landing in Jamestown. On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River.
John died in 1601 and Mary died in September 1608. [3] Mary was born into a family of status and her ancestors were well connected in society, including Thomas Arden, who fought in the Second Barons' War (1264–67) on the side of Simon de Montfort; Robert Arden who fought in the Wars of the Roses, and John Arden who served at the court of ...
James Sharp was born at Banff Castle on 4 May 1618, eldest son of William Sharp (1592–1638) and Isabel Leslie (1595-ca 1640). His father was property manager, or factor, for the Earl of Findlater; his mother was the daughter of the Laird of Kininvie. [1]
The son of Thomas Sharp, Archdeacon of Northumberland, William Sharp was born in 1729. His grandfather, John Sharp, also a Church of England clergyman, had risen to become Archbishop of York, and Sharp's father was his biographer. His other grandfather was Sir George Wheler. Sharp was one of a family of thirteen children, although three of his ...
Sir William Sharp, 1st Baronet (c. 1655 –1712) Sir James Sharp, 2nd Baronet (died 1738) Sir James Sharp, 3rd Baronet (died c. 1748) Sir William Sharp, 4th Baronet (c. 1754) Sir Alexander Sharp, 5th Baronet (died c. 1770) Sir William Sharp, 6th Baronet (1729–1780) (dormant) Sir Alexander Sharp Bethune, de jure 7th Baronet (1771–1847)
The Sharp family was notable in Yorkshire, and its members included, John Sharp who had been an Archbishop of York, and Abraham Sharp a mathematician and astronomer. [2] William's education was initially undertaken by his uncle at Wakefield Grammar School until he joined Westminster School in 1817. He learnt to be a surgeon from another uncle ...
After returning to Virginia, John Rolfe married a third time, to Jane Pierce, and gave Thomas a younger half-sister, Elizabeth. John Rolfe wrote his will on March 10, 1622 and died not long after that. In his will John appointed his father in law, William Peirce, as executor of his estate and guardian of his 2 children, Thomas and Elizabeth. [9]