John Halliday

brief biography and family

Lord Mayor of London 1605

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No.6. In the forepart of the 1600's John Holliday, 1578, only son of Sir Leonard, married Alice Ferrars. She died at the birth of a son, also named John. He spent his early years in London, but he also lived at Yard House in Middlesex and at Frome Hall. There is some doubt as to whether it was the senior who came to Virginia in 1638. This writer accepts the junior as more likely correct. A Virginia deed dated in 1638, is recorded from Christopher Wormly, to various parties described as being near or adjoining lands of others named, "and John Holliday

John, Sir John Halliday, was the only son left after the eldest Gilbert had gone to exile after a controversial witch trial, where he was a lawyer. https://gw.geneanet.org/kvicksund?lang=en&iz=4354&p=john&n=halliday...