Elizabeth St. John

1605 - 1677  (72 years)

• Name	Elizabeth St. John  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	1605	Keysoe, Bedfordshire, England   [7, 8, 9, 10]
  Gender	Female
  Death	3 Mar 1677	Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts   [7, 11, 12, 13]
  Person ID	I8919	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Oliver St. John,   b. Abt 1575, of Keysoe, Bedfordshire, England d. Bef 23 Mar 1626 (Age ~ 51 years)
  Mother	Sarah Bulkeley,   b. Bef 1580   d. Bef 1611 (Age < 31 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1597  [7, 12]
  Family ID	F4743	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rev. Samuel Whiting,   b. 20 Nov 1597, Boston, Lincolnshire, England d. 11 Dec 1679, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	6 Aug 1629	Boston, Lincolnshire, England   [2, 7, 12, 13]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Whiting   d. Aft 22 Jan 1717, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   2. Rev. Joseph Whiting,   b. 6 Apr 1641, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts d. 7 Apr 1723, Southampton, Suffolk, Long Island, New York (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F4699	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors." Sister to the Oliver St. John who was chief justice of England under Oliver Cromwell. "She…was known for her beauty, dignity and commanding presence. For a woman of those days she had received a good education which made her the fit companion of the scholars and statesmen who were her relations. Even in her old age she did not lose her youthful fondness for the great poets of England, Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare, with whose works her husband's library at Lynn was stored. It is clear from the circles in which she moved that she was well informed about current affairs and the rights of government and royal prerogative." [John Roger Scott Whiting, citation details below] She was a half first cousin 4 times removed to Henry VII, through descent from Henry VII's grandmother Margaret Beauchamp (d. 1482). By the same common ancestor, she was a half fifth cousin once removed to her contemporary Charles I, making her possibly the seventeenth-century emigrant to New England most closely related to a sitting English monarch.

  
  

• Sources

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