Christopher Derby

Abt 1571 - 1640  (~ 69 years)

• Name	Christopher Derby
  Birth	Abt 1571  [1, 2]
  Baptism	1571	Askerswell, Dorset, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Jan 1640  [1, 2]
  Burial	Shipton-George, Dorset, England   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I23591	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Nicholas Derby,   b. of Askerswell, Dorset, England d. 30 Oct 1599
  Mother	Catherine   d. Between 28 Apr 1600 and 11 Feb 1606
  Family ID	F14170	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann Symonds   d. Abt May 1649
  Marriage	Bef 1608  [1]
  Children	1. John Derby,   b. Abt 1610, Burton-Bradstock, Dorset, England d. Between 4 Oct 1655 and 22 Feb 1656, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age ~ 45 years)
  Family ID	F14169	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2019

  
  

• Notes

  He was a linen draper. His status as gentry is made quite clear in the records of proceedings that were brought against him in 1632 for "not compounding for knighthood on the occasion of the King's coronation." Earlier, he was accused by the Privy Council, in a letter to the Marquis of Winchester dated 24 June 1597, of trying to evade military service by becoming a retainer of Viscount Bindon. Whether there was any merit to this accusation is unknown.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3129] G. Andrews Moriarty, "Genealogical Research in England: Symonds-Femell." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 80:343, Oct 1926. [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982.