Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Gerard Spencer

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Name Gerard Spencer [1] Birth Bef 20 May 1576 Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England [2, 3, 4]
Baptism 20 May 1576 Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England [2, 3, 4]
Gender Male Death Bef 1646 [3, 4] Person ID I853 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 3 Feb 2024
Father Michael Spencer, b. Abt 1530-1535, of Edworth, Bedfordshire, England d. Aft 1599, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England
(Age ~ 65 years)
Mother Elizabeth d. Bef 18 Nov 1599, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England Marriage Aft Feb 1562 [2] Family ID F484 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Alice Whitbread, b. Abt 1578, Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England Marriage 10 Nov 1600 Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England [2, 4]
Children + 1. William Spencer, b. Bef 11 Oct 1601 d. Aft 4 May 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 39 years)
+ 2. Sgt. Thomas Spencer, b. Bef 29 Mar 1607 d. 11 Sep 1687, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 80 years)
+ 3. Michael Spencer, b. Bef 5 May 1611 d. Bef 29 Nov 1653, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts (Age < 42 years)
+ 4. Jared Spencer, b. Bef 25 Apr 1614 d. Aft 17 Sep 1683, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age > 69 years)
+ 5. Gerard Spencer, b. Bef 25 Apr 1614 d. Bef 3 Sep 1685, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age < 71 years)
Family ID F458 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Sep 2024
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Notes - Also called Gerat.
"It seems quite possible that Gerard and his family moved from Stotfold some years before the emigration of his sons to New England; perhaps to London, where his brother Richard had become a prosperous haberdasher." [Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Four Spencer Brothers -- Their Ancestors and Descendants," citation details below.]
According to projections by the Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library, Alice Whitbread and her husband Gerard Spencer were among the six couples living circa 1600 from whom the largest number of contemporary Americans are directly descended; in 1985 their posterity was estimated at about eighteen million.
- Also called Gerat.
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Sources - [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.
- [S906] The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth by N. Grier Parke II, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Woodstock, Vermont: The Elm Tree Press, 1960.
- [S390] Freeman" target="_blank">http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/index.htm">Freeman Family Lines, from the files of Stephen M. Lawson (via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine).
- [S389] Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Four Spencer Brothers -- Their Ancestors and Descendants." The American Genealogist 27:79, 27:161, 1951; 28:56, 1952.
- [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.