John Clark, of Hingham

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Sir John of Hingham Clark

Also Known As: "Mayflower Navigator"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hingham, Norfolk, England (United Kingdom)
Death: June 1615 (54-55)
Hingham, Norfolk, England
Place of Burial: Hingham, Norfolk, England
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas Clark of Hingham and Elizabeth Clark
Husband of Elizabeth Clark
Father of Rebecca Peck; Margaret Cowper (Clark); Jane Elizabeth Collier (Clack); Mary Gilman; Sarah Clark and 5 others
Brother of Valentine Clark; Stephen Clark; Mary Margaret Sims; Elizabeth Clark; Margaret Clark and 2 others

Managed by: Lara Anne Wokasch
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About John Clark, of Hingham

Family

Family of John Clark (est 1560-1615) & Elizabeth

Children

  1. Margaret, married Anthony Cooper
  2. Jane, married Robert Kirby
  3. Mary, married Edward Gilman
  4. Rebecca, married Joseph Peck

Biography

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Joseph_Clark_%2828%29

Threlfall, John B. Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & their Origins. (Madison, Wisconsin: J.B. Threlfall, 1990) 289-91.

Joseph Peck married first, at Hingham, Norfolk, England, on 21May1617, Rebecca Clark, buried there on 24 October 1637. Evidence exists indicating that Rebecca was the sister of Mary Clark, who married Edward Gilman at Hingham on 3 June 1614. It is thought that Jane Clark, who married Robert Kirby at Hingham 25 July 1616 and Margaret Clark, who married Anthony Cooper there on 25 July 1609 were also sisters; all thought to be daughters of John Clark, who was buried at Hingham on 6 June 1615, and Elizabeth Clark, wife of John, buried there on 11April1602. Anthony Cooper, Edward Gilman, and Joseph Peck were all early settlers of Hingham, Massachusetts. The parish registers for Hingham begin in 1601, but there is a record in the Genealogical Society of Utah's International Genealogical Index of a Rebecca Clark, baptized there on 21 May 1585, the daughter of Samuel and Martha (Lincoln) Clark. The ultimate source of this record is apparently a "Peck Family Bible," no further information given. The submitter of the record is now deceased. Suspicion is aroused, however, by the fact that family bibles usually give birth, not baptismal records. Also the baptism happens to be exactly 32 years prior to the marriage.

John Clark, buried in 1615, was probably the son of Thomas Clark of Hingham, husbandman, whose 1593 will mentions a wife Elizabeth and children Valentine, Stephen, John, Elizabeth and Margaret. He was probably the grandson of Richard Clark of Hingham, whose will dated 20 August 1557 mentions a wife Margaret and children John, Thomas (relationship not specified but assumed to be son), Margery and Joan. He was probably the great grandson of Richard Clark, as Thomas Clark's will mentions a tenement which was formerly his grandfather Richard Clark's.


Surname has also been reported to be Clarke.

Given name has also been (erroneously?) reported to be Joseph.

This John has the same year and place of death as that John. Is there some confusion?

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John Clark, of Hingham's Timeline

1560
1560
Hingham, Norfolk, England (United Kingdom)
1585
May 2, 1585
Hingham, Norfolk, England
1588
1588
Hingham, Norfolk, England
1589
1589
Hingham, Norfolk, England
1590
August 6, 1590
Hingham, Norfolk, England
1615
June 6, 1615
Age 55
Hingham, Norfolk, England (United Kingdom)
June 1615
Age 55
Hingham, Norfolk, England
1940
February 17, 1940
Age 55
February 17, 1940
Age 55