Luke Gardiner

1622 - 1674  (52 years)

• Name	Luke Gardiner  [1]
  Birth	1622  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Aug 1674	Canoe Neck, Oakley, St. Mary's County, Maryland   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I35739	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	Richard Gardiner   d. Abt 1651
  Family ID	F21001	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Hatton,   b. Bef 15 Feb 1635   d. Bef 17 Nov 1702, St. Mary's County, Maryland (Age < 67 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1654  [2]
  Children	> 1. Luke Gardiner   d. 1705
  Family ID	F20999	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was the guardian to the children of the original settler Robert Cole, after he died on a business trip back to England. He is said to have been an ancestor of Francis Scott Key and F. Scott Fitzgerald, although by a wife other than Elizabeth Hatton. We haven't looked into this.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8115] Nathan W. Murphy, "The Origin and Royal Descent of Margaret1 Domville, Wife of Richard Hatton, of Lymm, Cheshire, and of Richard1 Banks of Maryland." The American Genealogist 87:226, 87:285, 2015. [S248] Robert Cole's World: Agriculture & Society in Early Maryland by Lois Green Carr, Russell B. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. [S134] Mike Marshall, Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia’s Northern Neck Counties. [S248] Robert Cole's World: Agriculture & Society in Early Maryland by Lois Green Carr, Russell B. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991., year only.