Richard Gardiner, of St. Mary’s

NOTE: The parents of Richard Gardiner/Garnett, Maryland colonist, are UNKNOWN. There is no primary evidence to support the contention that he was the son of Sir Thomas Gardiner of Basing in Peckham (nor is there any evidence to support the contention that this Sir Thomas Gardiner is a descendant of Helen Tudor, bastard of Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford).

According to [GARDINER], [SKORDAS, pp175-176] and LDS records, a family of Gardiners came into Maryland in 1637. The parents' names were Richard Gardiner (b. 1590 in England-d. c. 1648 St. Mary's, MD) who in 1614 in England married Elizabeth Hame (b. 1595 in England-d.? St. Mary's, MD). They arrived in St. Marys MD in 1637. They had children all of whom were born in England, Mary (b. 1615 in Surrey ENG- d. after 1693 in Oxfordshire ENG) who stayed in England, Richard (b. 1616 in Surrey ENG d. 1693 in Mechanicsville, St. Marys, Oakley MD), Jone (b. 1617 in Surrey ENG-d. in Oxfordshire ENG) who stayed in England, Elizabeth (b. 1618 in Surrey ENG -d.c. 1642 St. Marys MD), Luke (b. 1622 in Oxfordshire ENG- d. 1674 St. Mary's, MD), Juliana (b. 1630 in - d.?) and John? (b. 1633 in Surrey ENG? d. ?). These Garners were concentrated in St. Mary's, Maryland, which is immediately across the Potomic River from Lewisetta, Virginia. St. Mary's is the oldest settlement in MD. The LDS records point out that Luke married in 1649 in St. Mary's, MD an Elizabeth Hatton (b. 1/1/1663 in London ? d. abt.1702 in MD). Elizabeth Hatton's father, Richard (born in Shropshire, England) and mother, Margaret, were landowners in the Northern Neck as late as 1652. Luke's son, Richard Gardiner , whose house the White House was copied from, married Virginian Elizabeth Wiere, daughter of John Wiere and Honoria Jones, of Rappahannock Cty. Garners were present in abundance in St. Mary's through the years. Recall, Thomas Keene, Susannah's father, also lived in St. Mary's. According to an article in [Bull. Northumb. C. Hist. Soc., 1998, page 30] as well as [Hist. Atlas Westm. C.] many of the original inhabitants of both Northumberland and Westmoreland Counties came over from St. Mary's MD. In addition, we know from [GARDINER, pg. 30] that Luke Gardiner, his sister Juliana Gardiner , and possibly his brother John traveled from St. Mary's to Virginia to avoid Richard Ingle's raids on St. Mary's in summer 1645. It is probable that Richard and Elizabeth died at the hands of Ingle since there are no records of them after 1645 and we know that St. Richard's Manor was sacked by Ingle. The daughter Elizabeth and her husband Richard Luslick also have no records after 1642, so they were likely dead. Luke and Juliana returned to St. Marys in 1647 with Leonard Calvert but no mention is made of John. Looking back a couple pages, you will notice quite a number of the 1654 patentees of Mr. Hobkins came over from St. Marys, MD.

The present genealogy makes extensive use of several sources: The Garner-Keene Families of the Northern Neck of Virginia by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood [abbreviated GK] and Southern Garners by Sam Garner, MD [abbreviated SG]. GK was published in 1952 and SG was published in 1978 and updated in 1998. Another source for this work is Dunkin-Reid and Garner-McGraw-Mobley Families of South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama by Dean Smith Cress [CRESS]. Janie Dooley [JD] also provided invaluable information in her entry F197 Garner Family in The Lafayette County Heritage, Mississippi (1986). Finally, I must acknowledge the helpful data given to me by my Aunt Gene Moore and Uncle Duke Garner taken from the family Bible records, [AGUD].

http://www.unf.edu/~jgarner/garnergeneaology.html

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gardiner-949

Richard Gardiner (1592-c.1650) in St. Mary's County by 1640. http://firstfamiliesofmaryland.com/qualifying-ancestors

Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61175/images/colon..., page 443

https://archive.org/details/kinnearstheirkin00whit/page/331/mode/1u..., texts The Kinnears and their kin; a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy, with revolutionary and civil and Spanish war records; including manuscript of Rev. David Kinnear (1840), page 331-332.

https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/000400/...

https://archive.org/details/msa_sc_5881_1_61/page/n19/mode/1up, page 19-28

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Richard%27s_Manor

https://baltimoresun.newspapers.com/clip/21202569/key/

https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc2600/sc2685/genassem/html/ga...

https://books.google.com/books?id=pPZom7xkp3gC&pg=PA515&lpg=PA515&d..., Balitimore: Biography, page 515