John Crocker, Esq.

John Croker

• AKA Crocker
• Birth: Abt 1501, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England
• Death: 6 Mar 1568, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England
• Parents: Thomas Croker and Alice Dormer
• Spouse: Isabelle Skinner (b abt 1505 - d aft 1568) - married about 1526 in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England. Daughter of Robert Skinner.
• Spouse: Margaret Crofts - married after 1568. Daughter of John Crofts and widow of Anthony Strange.

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Biography

He also appears as John Crocker. He was the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1562. In 1556 he went before the College of Heralds to have confirmed his right to use the arms of the Croker family of Devonshire. The Heralds confirmed the arms to John Croker of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire on 15 Nov 1556.

Family

Retrieved from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Croker-40 and then edited

John Croker or Crocker was the son of Thomas Croker and Alice Dormer.[1][2][3] His birth date is uncertain.

John married twice. His first wife was Isabelle Skinner, daughter of Robert Skinner of Alcester, Warwickshire.[1][2][3]

They had eight children:

1. John[1][2][3]
2. Gerard, who was knighted[1][2][3]
3. Richard[1][2][3]
4. Mary, who married Henry Stratford and Rowland Baugh, called Margery by Douglas Richardson and in the Croker pedigree in the Oxford Visitation,[1][2][3] but named as Mary in John's will:[4] see below
5. Alice, who married Gilbert Wheeler[1][2][3]
6. Margery or Margaret who married Edward Hawten[1][2][3][4]
7. Alice, who married John Brooke[1][2][3]
8. Margaret, who married John Bonner[1][2][3]

John's second wife was Margaret Crofts, daughter of John Crofts of Holt, Warwickshire and widow of Anthony Strange of Cirencester, Gloucestershire.[1][2][3] They had one daughter:

1. Margery or Margaret, who married William Babbington[1][2][3]

Daughters - Margaret, Margery, Mary

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Croker-40

John Croker’s first wife was Isabelle Skinner. Among the children they had were five daughters, who included two daughters whom Douglas Richardson names as Margery or Margaret:

• Margery who married Henry Stratford and Rowland Baugh[1]my daughter now the wife of William Baughe"< in John's will[4][8] She is also called Mary in the Baugh pedigrees in the Visitations of Oxford,[9] Gloucester[10] and Worcester.[11] The Croker pedigree in the Oxford Visitation names her Margaret.[3] The evidence of John's will and the Baugh pedigrees points to her being Mary rather than Margery or Margaret.
• Margery who married Edward Hawten[1][2] She is named Margaret in John's will[4][8] but Margery in the Croker pedigree in the Oxford Visitation.[3]
• Margaret who married John Bonner,[1][2] also named in the Croker pedigree in the Oxford Visitation[3] and in John's own will[4][8]
• By his second wife, Margaret Crofts, John had another daughter called Margery or Margaret, who married William Babbington[1][2][3] and was named in John's will[4][8]

Notes

Douglas Richardson < "Ancestry of Edward Howell, of Southampton, Long Island", posted at the gen-medieval forum 2/26/2009.

"JOHN CROCKER, Gent., afterwards Esq., ... married (1st) ISABEL SKINNER, daughter of Robert Skinner, of Alcester, Warwickshire. They had three sons, John, Gerard, Knt., and Richard, and five daughters, Margery (wife of Henry Stratford and Rowland Baughe), Alice (wife of Gilbert Wheeler), Margery (2nd of name) (wife of Edward Hawten, Gent.), Alice (2nd of name) (wife of John Brooke), and Margaret (wife of John Bonner)."

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Magna Carta ancestry

Magna Carta Project at Wikitree < link >

Alice Croker appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from < Gateway Ancestor > Edward Howell, Gent. to < Magna Carta Surety Baron > Robert de Vere (vol. II, pages 418-426 HOWELL). This profile also appers in a trail between Edward Howell and surety Saher de Quincy. Both trails were badged by the Magna Carta Project in 2015 and are in need of re-review as of 27 April 2023. The trails are outlined in the < Magna Carta Trails > section of Margaret Hawten's profile (Margaret Howell on Geni)

Croker Pedigree from Oxford Visitation < link >

References

1. http://www.delmars.com/family/perrault/4144.htm source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998). (dead link) “John married Isabelle Skinner about 1526 in Hook Norten, Oxfordshire, England. (Isabelle Skinner was born about 1505 in Hook Norten, Oxfordshire, England and died after 1568 in England.)”
2. “Ancestry of Edward Howell, of Southampton, Long Island (died 1655).” Douglas Richardson et al, 26 February 2009. < GoogleGroups >
3. Turner, William Henry, ed., The Visitations of the County of Oxford, Vol. V, (London: Harleian Society 1871), p. 185. “Crocker, of Hooknorton.” < archive.org >
4. “Will of William Dormer of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (1506).” < PDF >
5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Croker-40 citations include
   1. Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, p. 346, HOWELL 17
   2. Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. II, pp. 423-424, HOWELL 12 (Google Books free preview: https://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&q=Crocker#v=snippet&...)
   3. The Visitations of the County of Oxford, Harleian Society, Vol. V, 1871, p. 185, Internet Archive
   4. The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 51. "Will of John Croker"
      1. View Ancestry Record 5111 #917402, Image 104, Image 105 and Image 106 of 378.
      2. View free Ancestry Sharing Image: p. 1, p. 2, and p.3
      3. Another copy at The National Archives, Kew. PROB 11/51/109. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D957923
   5. Wikipedia: Sheriff of Berkshire and Oxfordshire
   6. Wikipedia: List of Lord Mayors of London
   7. Douglas Richardson's works give the probate date as 2 March 1568/9 - before John's death: this is a misprint
   8. "Request skilled help reading an old English will", Wikitree G2G posting by Kerry Larson on 4 May 2020. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1030643/request-skilled-help-reading-a.... Accessed 5 May 2020
   9. The Visitations of the County of Oxford, p. 320, Google Books
   10. The Visitation of the County of Gloucester, Harleian Society, Vol. XXI, 1885, p. 11, Internet Archive
   11. Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). The Visitation of the County of Worcester 1682-1683, William Pollard, Exeter, 1883, p. 10, Internet Archive
   12. Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
   13. Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.