Gerard Spencer

Bef 1576 - Bef 1646  (< 69 years)

• Name	Gerard Spencer  [1]
  Birth	Bef 20 May 1576	Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Baptism	20 May 1576	Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 1646  [3, 4]
  Person ID	I853	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Michael Spencer,   b. Abt 1530-1535, of Edworth, Bedfordshire, England d. Aft 1599, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England (Age ~ 65 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth   d. Bef 18 Nov 1599, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England
  Marriage	Aft Feb 1562  [2]
  Family ID	F484	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Whitbread,   b. Abt 1578, Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England
  Marriage	10 Nov 1600	Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England   [2, 4]
  Children	+ 1. William Spencer,   b. Bef 11 Oct 1601   d. Aft 4 May 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 39 years) + 2. Michael Spencer,   b. Bef 5 May 1611   d. Bef 29 Nov 1653, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts (Age < 42 years) + 3. Jared Spencer,   b. Bef 25 Apr 1614   d. Aft 17 Sep 1683, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age > 69 years)
  Family ID	F458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Gerat. "It seems quite possible that Gerard and his family moved from Stotfold some years before the emigration of his sons to New England; perhaps to London, where his brother Richard had become a prosperous haberdasher." [Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Four Spencer Brothers -- Their Ancestors and Descendants," citation details below.] According to projections by the Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library, Alice Whitbread and her husband Gerard Spencer were among the six couples living circa 1600 from whom the largest number of contemporary Americans are directly descended; in 1985 their posterity was estimated at about eighteen million.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S906] The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth by N. Grier Parke II, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Woodstock, Vermont: The Elm Tree Press, 1960. [S390] Freeman" target="_blank">http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/index.htm">Freeman Family Lines, from the files of Stephen M. Lawson (via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine). [S389] Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Four Spencer Brothers -- Their Ancestors and Descendants." The American Genealogist 27:79, April 1951.