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Henry James

Male 1605 - 1691  (~ 86 years)

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  • Name Henry James
    Christening 12 May 1605  Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    Burial 22 Aug 1691  Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5004  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2026

    Father John James,   c. 3 Aug 1578, All Hallows Barking, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Mother Susan Vandewall,   b. Bef 1582, of Antwerpen, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 15 Sep 1628, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 46 years)
    Marriage 24 Aug 1601  Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2271  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Eackar
    Marriage 21 Aug 1636  Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2304  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2026

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. 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...
      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..."

      2. 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."