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Elizabeth St. John

Female 1605 - 1677  (72 years)


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  • Name Elizabeth St. John  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Birth 1605  Keysoe, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 9
    Gender Female 
    Death 3 Mar 1677  Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 10, 11
    Siblings 5 siblings 
    Person ID I8919  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
    Last Modified 14 Feb 2024 

    Father Oliver St. John,   b. Abt 1575, of Keysoe, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 23 Mar 1626 (Age ~ 51 years) 
    Mother Sarah Bulkeley,   b. Bef 1580   d. Bef 1611 (Age < 31 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1597  [7, 11
    Family ID F4743  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rev. Samuel Whiting,   b. 20 Nov 1597, Boston, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Dec 1679, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 6 Aug 1629  Boston, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7, 11
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth Whiting   d. Aft 22 Jan 1717, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Rev. Joseph Whiting,   b. 6 Apr 1641, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Apr 1723, Southampton, Suffolk, Long Island, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    Family ID F4699  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Feb 2024 

  • Notes 
    • One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors." Sister to the Oliver St. John who was chief justice of England under Oliver Cromwell.

      "She…was known for her beauty, dignity and commanding presence. For a woman of those days she had received a good education which made her the fit companion of the scholars and statesmen who were her relations. Even in her old age she did not lose her youthful fondness for the great poets of England, Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare, with whose works her husband's library at Lynn was stored. It is clear from the circles in which she moved that she was well informed about current affairs and the rights of government and royal prerogative." [John Roger Scott Whiting, citation details below]

      She was a half first cousin 4 times removed to Henry VII, through descent from Henry VII's grandmother Margaret Beauchamp (d. 1482). By the same common ancestor, she was a half fifth cousin once removed to her contemporary Charles I, making her possibly the seventeenth-century emigrant to New England most closely related to a sitting English monarch.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1560] Hobart Family in America: Twelve Generations by Dorothy M. Titus. Boston: Percy Hobart Titus, 1943.

    2. [S1559] Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, With a Genealogy of the Ancestors of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Tyler, prepared by Cornelius B. Tyler. 1912.

    3. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.

    4. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897.

    5. [S2746] The Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America: 1649-1908 by Lucy Abigail Brainard. Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1908.

    6. [S7408] Candy M. Sawberger and Ronald O. Crandall, "Rev. Joseph Whiting (1641–1723) of Southampton, Long Island, his two wives Sarah Danforth of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Rebecca Bishop of Stamford, Connecticut, & Descendants through the Fourth Generation in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York." Connecticut Ancestry 64:41, 2021.

    7. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    8. [S1559] Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, With a Genealogy of the Ancestors of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Tyler, prepared by Cornelius B. Tyler. 1912., year only.

    9. [S4305] John Roger Scott Whiting, "The Rev. Samuel Whiting, 1597-1679." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 123:161, July 1969.

    10. [S1559] Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, With a Genealogy of the Ancestors of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Tyler, prepared by Cornelius B. Tyler. 1912., date only.

    11. [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933.