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Jane Clark

b. ABOUT 1590 · England  |  d. 2 Dec 1661 · Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

Most distant known ancestor in this line

Events

Birth
ABOUT 1590 · England
Death
2 Dec 1661 · Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

Family

Spouse: William Collier (1582–1670) · m. 16 May 1611 · St. Olave, Southwark, and London

Children:

  1. Mary Collier (–BEFORE 8 Dec 1662)
    m. Thomas Prence (1600/01–29 Mar 1673) · 1 Apr 1635 · Plymouth, Massachusetts
    Children: Jane Prence (1637–1712); Mary Prence (–1672); Sarah Prence (1643–1707); Elizabeth Prence (–1673); Judith Prence
  2. Hannah Collier (–31 Aug 1625)
  3. Rebecca Collier (–29 Dec 1698)
    m. Job Cole (–BEFORE 29 Dec 1698) · 15 May 1634 · Plymouth, Massachusetts
    Children: John Cole; Job Cole; Daniel Cole (1650–1713); Rebecca Cole (1654–); Samuel Cole (1655–1717)
  4. Sarah Collier (–26 Apr 1691)
    m. Love Brewster (1611–BEFORE 10 Feb 1651) · 25 May 1634 · Plymouth, Massachusetts
    Children: Wrestling Brewster (–1697); Sarah Brewster (1635–1668); William Brewster (1645–1723); Nathaniel Brewster (–1676)
    m. Richard Parke (–1665) · AFTER 1 Sep 1656
  5. John Collier (–BEFORE 23 Mar 1620)
  6. Elizabeth Collier (–1682)
    m. Constant Southworth (1614–1679) · 2 Nov 1637
  7. John Collier (–1625)
  8. Catherine Collier (ABOUT 1621–1622)
  9. William Collier (ABOUT 1622–12 Aug 1625)
  10. James Collier (–24 Aug 1624)
  11. Martha Collier (–30 May 1625)
  12. Lydia Collier (–12 Mar 1626)

Notes

Verne Chambers gives her maiden name as Jane Clarke in a letter of Aug 1997. The marriage record at St. Olave parish records the marrige of William Collier to Jane Clark. [MFIP, Wm Brewster, p.43] claims she the mother of Thomas Clarke, based on Gov. Prence's will calling Thomas Clarke his "brother". I don't buy that interpretation -- there are other possibilities for that reference. On 2 March 1649/50 [PCR 12:182], William Collier transfers land to "my kinsman William Clark". There is good evidence for a theory (suggested by John Insley Coddington in TAG 51:92-3) that she William Collier was her second husband, and by her first husband she had a daughter that married William Walker. Consider these facts: *William Collier's wife was Jane Clarke. Their marriage is recorded at St. Olave parish, Southward, England on 16 May 1611. *Sarah Walker, the daughter of William Walker, was baptized at St. Olave's on 10 Nov 1622. *Sarah Walker married Nathaniel Warren (son of the Mayflower Richard Warren) in Plymouth on 19 Nov 1645. *In the Plymouth court on 7 June 1653, "Mrs. Jane Collyare in behalf of her grandchild the wife of the said Nathaniel Warren" petitioned the court in a land dispute. The wife of William Walker would have been born circa 1600, thus predating her marrige to William Collier. This suggests an earlier marriage, in which case Clarke would be her married, not maiden, name. It would also push Jane's birthdate estimate back about 10 years, to circa 1580, rather than the oft cited circa 1590. It has been suggested that her parents were John Clarke and Elizabeth Hobson. I don't know where that theory originated, or what evidence there is to support it. There is a marriage between John Clarke and Elizabeth Hobson on 17 Aug 1589 at St. Olave's parish, Southwark. There is also another connection between William Collyare an the Clarks. William Collier apprenticed to John Arnold, dyer, of St. Olave's, Southward. His will, dated 16 Mar 1617/8, was witnessed by William Collier, and named the testator's late sister, Joyce Clark, dec.d. Another theory out there is that she was a daughter of John Clarke and Mary Morton of London, making her a brother of Thomas Clarke. This conjecture, no doubt, comes from the reference in which William Collyare calls Thomas Clarke his "kinsman". But otherwise, I don't know of any direct evidence for this one.