Christopher Ware

CHRISTOPHER WARE (1538 - 1610) CHART

     Married: Miss Russell

     Had: James and descending son John Christopher was probably born in Kent, England and he died in Yorkshire, England. According to Walter Harris, who had access to an old family diary & manuscripts, "Christopher Ware descended from Roger de la Warre, Lord of Isefield, and he was an early convert to the Protestant religion in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1558)." The Ware family had been Roman Catholic for generations. "According to heresy laws, it was a religious and civil offense amounting to treason to believe in a different religion from the Sovereign, and church attendance was mandatory." Christopher's father (John) and mother were married under the rule of King Henry VIII (who started out as Catholic but became Protestant in order to have his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled; making it lawful for him to marry Anne Boleyn). This only added to the growing Protestant Reformation, started several decades before by a German monk named Martin Luther. Christopher was born in 1538 - nine years before the death of King Henry VIII; thus under Protestant rule. After King Henry's death, the throne went to his son, Edward VI who was also fiercely Protestant. Christopher Ware was 15 years old and his father was 43 when young King Edward died of tuberculosis in 1553. The throne then went to Mary (daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon). SHE was fiercely Catholic, and in the attempt to change England back to the Roman Catholic faith, she established the nickname of "Bloody Mary" because of the hundreds of Protestants who were burned at the stake for refusing to practice her religion. Upon Mary's death three years later, the throne went to her half-sister Elizabeth (daughter of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn) who was a staunch Protestant. Consequently, John Ware and his wife and his children (i.e. Christopher Ware) were now attending Protestant services again.

*** There have been some discrepancies at this point in the line, for one source (many years ago) seemed to believe that our lineage continued down through a son named Robert. He admitted to being unsure of some of his findings. As Wanda DeGidio stated (and I concur), "You will note the absence of any reference to a son Robert Ware who might be identified with an American emigrant of that time. This absence would seem to indicate that W.M. Wilder was incorrect in his assertion that Sir James (brother of Sir John) had a son named Robert. This fact is further born out by the funeral certificate of Dame Mary Ware, the widow of Sir James Ware who died 3 December 1632. This certificate again lists her children and this listing is identical with the details given at the funeral of her husband earlier in the same year." Later funeral certificates of other family members validate this same premise of there being no Robert Ware that came to America at this particular time. All subsequent and additional records corroborate the information herein included.

There was also the assumption that our particular line descended from Sir James, but the records bear out the fact that OUR line proceeds through Sir John - information validated in large part by the well acknowledged and unquestioned existence of an ancestor by the unusual name of Valentine Ware. (Even W. Wilders' charts bear affirmation to this fact.) Further proof comes from the fact that our particular line in America comes straight through a Peter Ware Sr. - son of John. James had no children named Peter. Family letters, documents, & records leave no doubt as to our descending line through Peter Sr. - I have listed many of these at the end of this paper. "From a handwritten pedigree chart among the Crookshank papers in the British Genealogical Library in London, it shows that Christopher Ware had TWO sons. The eldest son, John, settled in County Cork, Ireland and married Mary Owen." It was Sir James I (Christopher's 2nd son), however, who held the title of Auditor-General of Ireland & passed that title on to his son, Sir James II.

Source: Complete Lineage of the Ware Name to the Present Generation (through descending males) courtesy of Judy Ware © Judy C. Ware http://www.waregenealogy.com/WareLineage.htm ______________________________

1548-1610 Yorkshire England

1. ID: I12034
2. Name: Christopher * WARE
3. Sex: M
4. Change Date: 17 FEB 2008
5. Birth: 1530 in England, Yorkshire, York

Father: Roger de la * WARRE b: 1502 in England, Somersetshire, Hestercombe Mother: Joan * STURTON b: 1505 in England, Somersetshire Marriage 1 _____ * RUSSELL Children

  1. Has Children James * WARE b: 26 NOV 1568 in England, Yorkshire, York

Marriage 2 Magdalyne GEORDGE b: 1540

   * Married: 04 NOV 1560

Children

  1. Has No Children John WARE b: 1578 in England, Yorkshire

Lived during the reigns of King Edward VI (5 years), Queen Mary I (5 years) Queen Elizbeth I (45 years). Lived in Durham, Yorkshire County, England. Was an early convert to Protestant religion.

Christopher Ware, descended from Rodger de Ware, lord of Isefield, was in the beginning reign of Queen Elizabeth, settled in Yorkshire. "He was an early convert," says Walter Harris, "to the Protestant religion, having been brought over from Catholicism by the zeal and labours of John Fox, the martyrologist, then lately returned from Germany, whither he had fled from the persecutions and cruelties of the government of Queen Mary, as great numbers of the Protestant profession had done."

According to Burke's Peerage, Book 2, Sie Christopher served in the court of Queen Elazabeth I and King James I until his death.

Sources: 1.Title: McClendon, Brummett, Morgan, Henderson Author: Brummett Jerald McClendon; mcclendon@nfis.com Publication: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jerrymcc...

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CHRISTOPHER WARE (1538 - 1610) CHART

     Married: Miss Russell

     Had: James and descending son John Christopher was probably born in Kent, England and he died in Yorkshire, England. According to Walter Harris, who had access to an old family diary & manuscripts, "Christopher Ware descended from Roger de la Warre, Lord of Isefield, and he was an early convert to the Protestant religion in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1558)." The Ware family had been Roman Catholic for generations. "According to heresy laws, it was a religious and civil offense amounting to treason to believe in a different religion from the Sovereign, and church attendance was mandatory." Christopher's father (John) and mother were married under the rule of King Henry VIII (who started out as Catholic but became Protestant in order to have his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled; making it lawful for him to marry Anne Boleyn). This began the Protestant Reformation. Christopher was born in 1538 - nine years before the death of King Henry VIII; thus under Protestant rule. After King Henry's death, the throne went to his son, Edward VI who was also fiercely Protestant. Christopher Ware was 15 years old and his father was 43 when young King Edward died of tuberculosis in 1553. The throne then went to Mary (daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon). SHE was fiercely Catholic, and in the attempt to change England back to the Roman Catholic faith, she established the nickname of "Bloody Mary" because of the hundreds of Protestants who were burned at the stake for refusing to practice her religion. Upon Mary's death three years later, the throne went to her half-sister Elizabeth (daughter of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn) who was a staunch Protestant. Consequently, John Ware and his wife and his children (i.e. Christopher Ware) were now attending Protestant services again.

*** There have been some discrepancies at this point in the line, for one source (many years ago) seemed to believe that our lineage continued down through a son named Robert. He admitted to being unsure of some of his findings. As Wanda DeGidio stated (and I concur), "You will note the absence of any reference to a son Robert Ware who might be identified with an American emigrant of that time. This absence would seem to indicate that W.M. Wilder was incorrect in his assertion that Sir James (brother of Sir John) had a son named Robert. This fact is further born out by the funeral certificate of Dame Mary Ware, the widow of Sir James Ware who died 3 December 1632. This certificate again lists her children and this listing is identical with the details given at the funeral of her husband earlier in the same year." Later funeral certificates of other family members validate this same premise of there being no Robert Ware that came to America at this particular time. All subsequent and additional records corroborate the information herein included.

There was also the assumption that our particular line descended from Sir James, but the records bear out the fact that OUR line proceeds through Sir John - information validated in large part by the well acknowledged and unquestioned existence of an ancestor by the unusual name of Valentine Ware. (Even W. Wilders' charts bear affirmation to this fact.) Further proof comes from the fact that our particular line in America comes straight through a Peter Ware Sr. - son of John. James had no children named Peter. Family letters, documents, & records leave no doubt as to our descending line through Peter Sr. - I have listed many of these at the end of this paper. "From a handwritten pedigree chart among the Crookshank papers in the British Genealogical Library in London, it shows that Christopher Ware had TWO sons. The eldest son, John, settled in County Cork, Ireland and married Mary Owen." It was Sir James I (Christopher's 2nd son), however, who held the title of Auditor-General of Ireland & passed that title on to his son, Sir James II.

Source: Complete Lineage of the Ware Name to the Present Generation (through descending males) courtesy of Judy Ware © Judy C. Ware http://www.waregenealogy.com/WareLineage.htm

Christopher Ware, descended from Rodger de Ware, lord of Isefield, was in the beginning reign of Queen Elizabeth, settled in Yorkshire. "He was an early convert," says Walter Harris, "to the Protestant religion, having been brought over from Catholicism by the zeal and labours of John Fox, the martyrologist, then lately returned from Germany, whither he had fled from the persecutions and cruelties of the government of Queen Mary, as great numbers of the Protestant profession had done."

According to Burke's Peerage, Book 2, Sie Christopher served in the court of Queen Elazabeth I and King James I until his death.
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Citing This Record "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/S56R-L2X : accessed 2014-01-10), entry for Christopher /Ware/.

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James /Ware/ birth: 26 November 1568 death: 14 May 1632