John Loker, Sr

John Loker

• Male
• Birth: 1611 - Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England
• Death: Jun 18, 1653 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
• Ref # 8161
• Father Henry Loker b. Feb 7, 1577, d. Feb, 1631
• Mother Elizabeth (?) b. 1586, d. Mar 18, 1648
• Marriage - 1649 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Principal=Mary Draper

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Family Mary Draper b. 1626, d. 1697

Children

1. John b. 9 Jan 1649 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Married 1) Sarah Rice 2) Rachel Haynes
2. Mary b. posthumously 28 Sep 1653, d. Oct 28, 1735. Married Jonas Prescott.

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Loker-59
John Loker (abt. 1608 - abt. 1653)

John Loker
Born about 1608 in Bures St Mary, Suffolk, Englandmap [uncertain]
Son of Henry Loker and Elizabeth (Unknown) Loker
Brother of Henry (Loker) Looker Jr., Anna Hannah (Loker) Newton and Bridgett (Loker) King
Husband of Mary (Draper) Loker — married about 1650 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Father of John Loker and Mary (Loker) Prescott
Died about 18 Jun 1653 at about age 45 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Puritan Great Migration.
John Loker migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).
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Biography

John Loker was one of the original grantees of Sudbury in 1639, and was made a freeman May 6, 1646. He died at Sudbury June 18, 1653. His widow, Mary (Draper), survived many years. She bought a house and lot from the executor of the estate of Robert Best in 1654, and appears to have been living in Sudbury as late as 1697. A widow, Elizabeth Loker, who died at Sudbury May 18, 1648, may have been the mother of John, Henry, Bridget, who married (1) Robert Davies, (2) Thomas King, and another sister (Anne?) who probably married Richard Newton.[1]

Birth

John Loker, born about 1607, at Bures St. Mary, Essex, England, was the son of Henry Loker alias Riddlesdale and his wife Elizabeth.[2]

Because the birth town can be either Suffolk or Essex - a Wikipedia passage is include: The village is sometimes known as Bures and is on the border between South Suffolk and North Essex, in the heart of Constable Country and in the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Immigration

John, his siblings and widowed mother traveled to New England about 1639.[3] [4]

Marriage

He married Mary Draper about probably in Sudbury.[2] [5]

Death

John died in 1653 between 17 Jun (date of will) and 18 Aug (probate) in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.[2]

One sketch on the Loker's says John died 18 June 1653, citing the Sudbury Vital Records p. 314.[3] However the printed Sudbury records do not support this date.[6]

Will

"I John Loker of Sudbury beinge sicke in body but of perfect minde and memory (blessed be God) doe make this my last will and testament as followeth:
"I beinge by Gods providence posessed of a house and certayne lande in Sudbury, I beinge maryed and haveing one childe beinge a Sonne his name John Loker and consideringe that the law here established doth allow a wife after the death of her husband to enjoy a third parte of his house and lande during her naturall life, for the settinge of things in order, my will is that my wife shall enjoy my house and all my lande to her use if she remayne a widow untill my sonn come to the age of one and twenty yeares, but if she be maryed then shee shall enjoy the house and all the lande but untill my sonne comes to the age of eighteen yeares, and from that tyme two third parts of the rent of the house and lande shall bee to the benefit and particular use of my sonne and one third parte to the use of my wife untill my sonne come to the age of one and twenty yeares, but if my wife remaine a wyddow then my will is that shee should enjoy one third parte of my house and lande soe longe as shee soe continues, but if shee be married then my will is that my house and lande shall bee wholly surrendred unto my sonne John Loker when hee is one and twenty yeares old, and my will is that my wife shall kepe the house and fences in good reparations and soe leave them.
"And because my sonne is younge and in probability my wife may bee with child againe my will is, that my wife shall bringe up my sonne and that child or children with who shee now goes unto full age if she soe longe live, And in consideration thereof, I give unto my wife after my debts and funerall is discharged, All my goodes and cattle whatsoever (except my gunn and sword) and I give my gun and my sword unto my sonne John Loker and in case he dye before he come to age then I give my gun and sword to my brother Henry Loker Provided alwayes that if my wife dye before my children are brought up then my will is that my brother in law Robert Davies and my sister Bridget his wife livinge shall take up my sonne or children to bringe them up, And shall have the use of the lande and house to their use untill my sonne come to the age of eighteene yeares, And then the house and lands to returne wholly to the use of my sonne.
"And further if my sister Bridgett davies shall dye then my will is that my brother Henry Loker shall take my sonne or children to bringe them up And hee to have the use of my house and lands, As my brother and sister davies were to have it till my sonnne come to the age of eighteene yeares, And then it is to be surrendred to the use of my sonne John Loker. But in case my sonne John dye and there remayne another child of mine alive, then the house and land to bee to him or her surrendred when such child shall come to the age of eighteene yeares, but in case my child or children dye and that I have noe issue, then my will is that my wife shall enjoy my house and land to her proper use whether she bee maryed or a widdow duringe her naturall life. And then after her decease my will is that my house and lande shall bee equally divided betweene my brother henry Loker my sister davies and my sister Newton.
"And I doe hereby make my wife my brother henry Loker and my brother in law Robert davies to bee my executors desiringe them to see this my will and testament performed.
"In wittnes whereof I have hereunto sett my hand the 17th day of June 1653. (mark) the marke of John Loker sett with his owne hand in the presence of
John Parmeter
Hugh Griffyn"[7]

Children[2]

John b. by 1653
Mary b. posthumously 28 Sep 1653

Sources

1. Gilbert O. Bent, Who Begot Thee? Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an effort to trace the American progenitors of one individual living in America in 1903 (?, ?,1903.)
2. Holman, Mary Lovering. Winifred Lovering Holman, and Helen Pendleton Winston Pillsbury. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens And His Wife Frances Helen Miller. Concord, N.H.: Privately printed at the Rumford Press, 1948.
3. Richardson, Douglas. "The Riddlesdale alias Loker Family of Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England and Sudbury, Massachusetts.," in NEHGS Register, volume 143 (1989), pp 325-331. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11712/329/235396739 pp 329, 330 at AmericanAncestors ($)
4. "The Great Migration Directory" Anderson, Robert Charles; page 210
5. New England Marriages prior to 1700; page 470
6. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. New-England historic genealogical society, 1903 p. 314
7. Will of John Loker, (1653) Packet #14283, Middlesex County, MA, Probate File Papers, transcription courtesy of Randall J. Seaver, online Will of John Loker See Also
8. NEHGS Register; April 1863; page 172; Sudbury Records.
9. Savage, James; "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England". Volume 3. page 90 (Marriage).
10. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19020115&id=zJ4-AAAA...
11. http://www.mybalefamily.com/FamilyTree/Prescott-p/p632.htm#i8161