Thomas Croker

Parents unknown. Not the son of Geoffrey Croker & Alice Croker

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Croker-41

"ALICE DORMER... married THOMAS CROCKER (or CROKER), of Faringdon, Berkshire. They had one son, John, Esq. Thomas was presumably closely related to Richard Crocker, of Faringdon, Berkshire, Merchant of the Staple of Calais, who left a will dated 8 March 1519, proved 14 March 1519, naming his wife, Ellen, but no children (P.C.C. 27 Ayloffe)."[1]

Croker arms: argent a chevron engrailed gules between three ravens sable three mullets or

Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dormer-27

"[Note: In 1570 John Dormer, of Steeple Barton, Oxfordshire, younger son of Sir Michael Dormer, Mayor of London above, stated in a letter that he had spoken with his “Cousin Croker” about a potential land sale. “Cousin Croker” is doubtless Sir Gerard Crocker, also of Steeple Barton, Oxfordshire, who was the grandson of Alice Dormer, wife of Thomas Crocker above [References: Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive: Archer of Tanworth, DR 37/2/Box 87/8, DR 37/2/Box 87/9; abstract of documents available online at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp; see also Lee Hist., Description & Antiquities of …Thame (1883): 504– 516 (Dormer pedigree); Stapleton Three Oxfordshire Parishes: Hist. of Kidlington, Yarnton & Begbroke (Oxford Hist. Soc. 24) (1893): 73–75; VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 59–75; ]. In 1587 John Crocker, of Steeple Barton, Oxfordshire, son and heir of Sir Gerard Crocker, conveyed a one-fifth part of the manor of Kidlington, Oxfordshire to Brasenose College, Oxford. Joining him in the conveyance were his cousin, Michael Dormer, of Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire, son of Ambrose Dormer, and grandson of Sir Michael Dormer, Mayor of London above; Edward Hawten, of the Lea (husband of his aunt, Margery Crocker); and John Bonner, of Swarford (husband of his aunt, Margaret Crocker).

Croker Pedigree from Oxford Visitation < archive.org >

Comments

The Parish of West Wycombe lies on the western verge of Bucks, adjoining Oxfordshire. So it is possible that he married into the Dormer family from West Wycomb. But there is no "Alice" Dormer in the will of William, and Geoffrey II would be pretty old to have fathered Alice.

References

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1. “Ancestry of Edward Howell, of Southampton, Long Island (died 1655).” Douglas Richardson et al, 26 February 2009. < GoogleGroups >
2. Turner, William Henry, ed., The Visitations of the County of Oxford, Vol. V, (London: Harleian Society 1871), p. 185. “Crocker, of Hooknorton.” < archive.org >
3. “Will of William Dormer of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (1506).” < PDF >