John Flower

1535 - 1620  (85 years)

• Name	John Flower
  Birth	1535	of Whitwell, Rutland, England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Apr 1620  [4]
  Person ID	I14607	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Richard Flower,   b. of Whitwell, Rutland, England d. 1540
  Mother	Alice Harington
  Family ID	F873	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margery Colley
  Children	+ 1. Anne Flower
  Family ID	F9115	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2017

  
  

• Notes

  Knight of the shire for Rutland, 1563. Sheriff of Rutland 1565-66, 1569-70, 1577-78. "The last 50 years of Flower’s life were dogged by financial hardship and, despite the 1564 bishops’ report describing him as an ‘earnest furtherer of religion’, suspicion of recusancy. About 1578 he was removed from the commission of the peace and in 1582 was summoned before the High Commission on suspicion of harbouring the priests Chambers and Campion. His wife, son and daughter-in-law were all Catholics, and by the time of Flower’s death on 30 Apr. 1620, when his son and heir John was aged over 50, litigation and, probably, recusancy fines had consumed most of the property." [History of Parliament]

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., place only. [S1585] Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall by Leverett Saltonstall. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897., place only. [S2133] The History of Huddersfield and Its Vicinity by D. F. E. Sykes. Huddersfield, Yorkshire: The Advertiser Press, 1898., place only. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site.