Joan Whitaker

Joan Whitaker (Taylor) was also known as Joan (Taylor) Fenner, widow of Dudley Fenner. Her second husband was Rev. William Whitaker.

References

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whitaker_(theologian)_

The maiden name of his first wife, who was sister-in-law to Laurence Chaderton, was Culverwell; his second wife, who survived him, was the widow of Dudley Fenner.

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Whitaker-1456

On 8 April 1591 William married Joan Taylor, widow of Dudley Fenner, a Puritan minister[1][2]. They had a son Jabez, born on 6 Dec 1595, two days after William’s death[1][2].

• 1. 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), volume IV, pp. 331-332 WHITAKER 14 GoogleBooks
• 2. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, revised online 2008: William Whitaker

From https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Fenner,_Dudley_(DNB00)_

For some years he remained at Antwerp assisting Cartwright, and married there; but the disturbed state of the Low Countries and the mildness of Archbishop Grindal towards puritans tempted him to return to England. ...
... Here he died towards the end of 1587. He would seem to have had the sympathy of Mr. Fletcher, for the birth of his daughter in June 1585 is entered in the register of Cranbrook Church, ‘Faint not Fenner, daughter of D. F. Concional. Digniss.’ The last two words probably mean ‘most worthy preacher.’ A son, [SIC: daughter] born December 1583, is given the name of More Fruit Fenner. Fenner's widow became the wife of Dr. William Whitaker, and bore him eight children. [SIC: one surviving]

From Religious Politics in Post-reformation England: Essays in Honour of Nicholas ... edited by Kenneth Fincham, Peter Lake. “Dudley Fenner & the peculiarities of Puritan nomenclature.” Page 119 - GoogleBooks

... Dudley Fenner was a native of Kent, and was reported by Waldegrave to have been an ‘heir of great possessions.’ He was a fellow-commoner of Peterhouse, (which confirms his gentry status), but left Cambridge without a degree ... ... More-fruit was the name he chose for his own daughter. Free-Gift Fenner, sister of More-fruit, born overseas, died in Cranbrook in September 1583. Faint-not Fenner was baptized two years later. Well-abroad Fenner was buried in Cranbrook, after her father’s death. Presumably Joan Fenner had remained in Cranbrook after her husband’s withdrawal to self imposed exile in Middleburg ....”

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William Whitaker, English Puritan divine (1548-1595), married the sister-in-law of Laurence Chaderton, English Puritan (c. 1536-1640) and one of the translators of the King James Bible. Whitaker's second wife was the widow of Dudley Fenner (c. 1558-1587), author of the first Puritan systematic theology.