John Clerk, Esq.

John Clarke

• Father: John Clark b: 1420 in Forde, Wrotham, Kent, England
• Mother: Alice Tatesham b: 1425 in Tatesham, Kent, England
• Marriage 1 Lucy Moyle b: 1450 in London Married: 1470 in Forde, Wrotham, Kent, England

Children

• Alice Clark b: 1479 in Kent
• James Clark b: 1480 in Forde Hall, Wrotham, Kent, England
• John Clark b: 1480 in Forde Hall, Wrotham, Kent, England
• Jacob Clark b: 1495 in Kent

Paternal Haplogroup

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Note:

In the Justice book, the only note about John is that he was a "Gentleman" and that he married Lucy in about 1470.

John appears in the list of gentry for the county of Berks, returned into the exchequer 12th Henry VI (1433). He was the family heir. He was Baron of the Exchequer from October 10, 1468, to 1479. He lived in the manor of Forde (known as Forde Hall, named after the ford which crossed the brook that ran close to the hall to Leybourne and then Medway) in Wrotham. Forde Hall lay about a mile and a half eastward from Wrotham Church, near Addington Common, about 20 miles southeast of the center of London. (See Visitations of Kent, 1619, (Publications of the Harleian Society , Vol 42) Archive.Org

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