Frances Latham

Bef 1610 - 1677  (> 67 years)

• Name	Frances Latham
  Birth	Bef 15 Feb 1610	Kempston, Bedfordshire, England   [1, 2]
  Baptism	15 Feb 1610	Kempston, Bedfordshire, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Sep 1677	Newport, Newport, Rhode Island   [1]
  Burial	Common Burying Ground, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island   [1]
  Person ID	I18657	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	Lewis Latham,   b. Abt 1584, Elstow, Bedfordshire, England d. Abt 1653 (Age ~ 69 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth
  Family ID	F11578	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	William Dungan   d. Bef 20 Sep 1636, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England
  Children	1. Frances Dungan
  Family ID	F11576	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Jeremy Clarke, Governor of Rhode Island,   b. Bef 1 Dec 1605   d. Jan 1652, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island (Age > 46 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1637	England   [2, 3]
  Children	1. Walter Clarke, Governor of Rhode Island,   b. 1640   d. 23 May 1714 (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F11932	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2020

  
  

• Notes

  She emigrated about 1638 with her second husband Jeremy Clarke and her four children by William Dungan. From Wikipedia: Frances Latham (1610-1677), was a colonial American woman who settled in Rhode Island, and is known as "the Mother of Governors." Having been widowed twice, she had three husbands, and became the ancestor of at least ten governors and three deputy/lieutenant governors, and is related by marriage to an additional six governors and one deputy governor. Born in Bedfordshire, England, she was the daughter of Lewis Latham, a falconer for King Charles I. She was first married to William Dungan, with whom she had four children. Dungan died at an early age, and she soon married Jeremy Clarke who brought her and her Dungan children to New England where they settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Clarke was a prominent merchant who became the President of the colony for a year. With Clarke, Frances had seven children, the oldest of whom, Walter, later became a governor of the colony. Jeremy Clarke died when all of his children were still minors, after which Frances married her third husband, the Reverend William Vaughan of Newport. Frances and her last husband both died at about the same time in 1677 in Newport, and Frances was buried in the Common Burying Ground there. She leaves a legacy of thousands of descendants, many of whom reached great prominence during their lives. [...] Governors who are direct descendants: Walter Clarke, her son, Rhode Island governor 1676-1677, 1686, and 1696-1698 Samuel Cranston, Rhode Island governor 1698-1729 William Greene, Jr., Rhode Island governor 1778-1785 Nehemiah R. Knight, Rhode Island governor 1817-1821 Henry Lippitt, Rhode Island governor 1875-1877 Charles W. Lippitt, Rhode Island governor 1895-1896 John R. Rogers, Washington governor, 1896-1902 John Chafee, Rhode Island governor, 1963-1969 Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island governor, 2011- Also John R. Rogers, Washington state governor, 1897-1901.

  
  

• Sources

  [S160] Wikipedia. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S3580] Thomas P. Dungan, "Jeremy Clarke, Newport Founder: Researching His Life in England." Rhode Island Roots 38:23, 2012., "sometime in the second half of 1637 or early 1638.".