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John James

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  • Name John James 
    Christened 3 Aug 1578  All Hallows Barking, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I4990  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Roger James,   b. 1524, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Mar 1591, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Mother Sarah Morskin,   b. Bef 1542, Liege, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 18 Mar 1597, All Hollows Church Barking, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 55 years) 
    Married 28 Apr 1561  St. Saviour, Denmark Park, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2242  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Susan Vandewall,   b. Bef 1582, of Antwerpen, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 15 Sep 1628, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 46 years) 
    Married 24 Aug 1601  Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John James,   c. 16 Oct 1603, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 15/15 Feb 1604/5, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 1 years)
     2. Henry James,   c. 12 May 1605, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 22 Aug 1691, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 86 years)
     3. Susanne James,   c. 9 Jun 1606, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. John James,   c. 20 Jul 1607, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1619, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 11 years)
     5. Thomas James,   b. 1609, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jun 1637, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years)
     6. William James,   c. 26 Sep 1611, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Roger James,   c. 14 Jun 1613, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 23 Sep 1675, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 62 years)
     8. Sarah James,   c. 8/08 Jan 1615/6, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 14 Aug 1618, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 2 years)
     9. John James,   c. 7 Jan 1619, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     10. Jane James,   c. 27 Dec 1623, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 14 Jan 1674, Brenchley, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2215  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Noted as John James, Gentleman, in the christening records of children John 1603, Henry 1605, Susanne 1606, John 1607, William 1611, Roger 1613, Sarah 1615, John 1619, and Jane 1623.
      Contemporaneously to John in Ightham, Richard James has a child or two christened in the very early 1600s and William James has some children as well. Both are described as "Gentleman".
      Richard's children are Richard James chr. 16 May 1602 and Jane James chr. 25 Sep 1603.
      William has many more.

      2. I checked the parish records for Woodnesborough, Kent, and found no entries concerning John James.

      3. The publication "American Catholic Historical Researches," vol. 6 (1889), pp. 184-85, accessed online 22 Aug 2015:
      "Pedigree of Sir John James, Founder of the Fund for Pennsylvania Missions.
      Roger James, of the parish of Allhallows, Barking. London, Brewer, was of Dutch parentage, being son of, or descended from Jacob Van Haestrecht, who was of Cleve, near Utrecht. Coming to England in the latter part of the reign of King Henry the 8th, he obtained letters of denization, and (probably to avoid the animosity which at that period prevailed in London against foreigners) he seems to have dropped the family name of Haestrecht, and to have called himself Roger James, taking his father's Christian name as a surname for himself.
      His brewery was, I believe, in Lower Thames Street, then called Petty Wales, and he may possibly have taken the idea of adopting his father's Christian name as a surname, from the custom of his Welsh neighbors. He died in 1591, and buried at Allhallows, Barking, London, in the chancel of which church there is still remaining a brass with his effigy, and the following inscription:
      "Here under lyeth the body of Rogers James, late of London, Brewer, who being of the age of 67, departed this life the second day of March, 1591, leaving behind him Sara his wife, eight sons and one daughter."
      By his wife Sarah, daughter and heiress of Henry Morskin, of London, he had issued:
      I. Roger James, of Upminister Hall, Essex, who was father of Sir Roger James, Knight, of Beigate, Surrey, who left a daughter, Elizabeth.
      II. Arnold James, of London, married Mary daughter of John Vanhulst, of London.
      III. William James, who purchased Ightham Court, Kent, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and whose son, William James, was much trusted in the time of the commonwealth; he was a member of the Committee of Sequestrations of the estates of the loyalists, and he was chosen three times, in five years, Knight of the Shire for Kent. His son, Demetrius, was knighted; his grandson, Demetrius Grevis James, Esq., of Ightham Court, Kent, Sheriff of that County, in 1833. See Burke's "Commoners of England," vol. i, p. 397.
      IV. Thomas James, who died, s. p.
      V. Richard James, from whom proceeded Sir Cane James, as after mentioned.
      VI. John James, of Grove Manor, or Grange, in Woodnesborough, Kent, two thirds of which estate had been purchased by his father, and the remaining third part was purchased by his mother and her sons, Thomas and John, in 1594. Thomas dying without issue, John succeed to the whole. He married Susanna, daughter and co-heiress of Peter Vandewall of Antwerp, and had a son Henry, and four daughters, who, on the death of Henry, s. p., became co-heirs of their father.
      VII. George James, of Mallendine, in Cliffe near Rochester, who married Audrey, daughter of John Smith, and had issue.
      [The article continues with a descendency from the first son Roger listed above.]"

      4. The book "The Visitations of Surrey, 1530, 1572, and 1623" accessed online 20 Aug 2015 [ ] per book and not my notes:
      "JAMES (Harl. 1561, fos. 224b, 225, 225b, 226, 226b, 227, 227b, 228, 228b.)
      Arms -- Quarterly: 1, Argent, a chevron between three millrinds sable [James]; 2, Barry wafy of six argent and azure, on a chief or three birds rising sable [James], 3 and 4, [blank].
      Chest. -- a garb argent, banded vert.
      1-Jacob van Hawsteri borne in Cleue in German. =
      2-Willm. James.
      2-Theoder James of London. =
      3-Abraham James. =
      4-Abraham James 1623.
      3-Elias James.
      3-Jacob James.
      2-Roger James of London. = Sara d. & coheire of Hen. Morskin of London.
      3. Roger James Vpminster in com. Essex. = Sara d. of John Smyth of London. A. a Rose or.
      4. Sr. Roger James of Rigate in com. Surrey Knt. 1623 ob. 26 of March 1637 [sic].
      5. Roger James of Rigate.
      5. Anthony James ch. s.p.
      5. Elizebeth.
      5. Margarett.
      4. John James of Rigate 1623.
      4. Margerett vx Willm. Bishe of Fenn Place in the p'ish of Worth in com. Sussex.
      4. Gora [Sara, Harl. 1433] vx. george Wilkins of Stoke in the hundred of Ho in com. Kent.
      3. Arnold James of London. = Mary d. of John Van Hulst of London.
      4. John James of Braffin in com. Hertfford.
      4. Sara vx. of ___ Drew of Hawle in com. Essex Clark.
      4. Sara vx. Ric. Cason of London.
      4. Mary.
      4. Judith.
      3. Willm. James of Ightam in com. Kent. = Jane d. & heire of Henery Kule a natiue of Brenia.
      4. William, Thomas, Jane.
      3. Thomas James of Stroude Greene in com Midlesex. = ___ d. of ___ Foulk docter of Divinity.
      3. Richard James of Mallenden in com Essex. = Gertrud d. of John Smyth.
      4. Gertrude, Sara, Richard James, John James, George James, Jane, Emelin.
      3. John James of the Manor of Grove in the p'ish of Woodnesborough. = Susan d. & coheire of Peter Vandewall of Antwerp.
      4. Henery, Thomas, William, Henery ob. s.p., John s.p., Roger, John, Susan vx. ___ Nutt of London.
      3. George James of Mallendine in com. Essex. = Audrey d. of John Smyth.
      4. George, Gertrud, Ethelred.
      2-Jacob James dyed beyond the Seas."

      5. "A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying territorial Possessions or Hiigh Official Rank, but uninvested with Heritable Honours," by John Burke, 1836, vol. 1, pp. 397-98:
      "Grevis-James, of Ightham Court.
      James-Grevis, Demetrius, esq. of Ightham Court Lodge, in the county of Kent, a magistrate and eputy lieutenant for that shrire, sherif in 1833, b. 1st may, 1776 ...
      Lineage.
      The manor of Ightham was possessed temp. King John, by Hamon de Crevequier, from whom it passed through the families of De Criel, De Luge, Zouch of Harringworth, Read and Willoughby, to the house of James, by which it is now enjoyed.
      The Jameses were originally, says Philpot, called Hastrecht, from a lordship fo that name, which they possessed near Utrecht. (The family of Hæstrecht was allied by marriage to the ancient and eminent houses of Wassenaer and Waermont.)
      Roger, son of Jacob Van Hæstrecht, emigrated into England in the reign of King Henry VIII. and being known, after the Dutch manner, by the name of Roger Jacobs, the English at length called him Roger James. He espoused Sarah, only daughter and heir of Henry Morskin, esq. of London, and had issue,
      Roger, of Upminster, in Essex, who m. Sarah, daughter of John Smith, esq. of London, and was s. by his son,
      Sir Roger James of Rygate, in Surrey, who wedded Elizabeth, daughter of Anthony Aucher, and had a daughter, Elizabeth.
      Arnold, of London, who m. Mary, cau. of John Vanhulst, of that city.
      William. [See below.]
      Thomas, who m. the daughter of Fulke.
      Richard, who espoused Gertrude, dau. of John Smyth, and had, with other issue, a son, Sir John, of Cresshill, in Essex, and a daughter, Emlin, who m. to Mr. James Cane; and their son inheriting the estates of his uncle, Sir John was advanced to the dignity of a baronet, 34 Car. II. This branch of the family is now extinct.
      John, of Grove Manor, who m. Susanna, daughter and co-heir of Peter Vandewall, of Antwerp, and had issue.
      George, of Malendine, near Rochester, who m. Audrey, daughter of John Smyth, and had issue,
      The third son, William James, esq. acquired, temp. Queen Elizabeth, by purchase, the manor of Ightham Court, in the county of Kent. He wedded Jane, only daughter and heiress of Henry Kule, and had issue,
      William, his heir.
      Thomas.
      Jane, m. to Henry Dixon, esq. of Hilden, in Kent, and d. in 1692.
      [The article continues downline from "William, his heir" through his son Sir Demetrius James, then his son William James, and so forth to the person with which this article began.]"