Sir John Kirke b. Abt 1605 Dieppe, archev. Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Normandie, France d. 23 Jun 1685 St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England

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Name	Sir John Kirke [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Born	Abt 1605	Dieppe, archev. Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Normandie, France
Gender	Male
Military	1628
	Took part in the expedition with his brother James that captured Port Royal and Pentagouët on the Penobscot River
Military	19 Jul 1629
	Took part in the expedition with his brothers that captured Québec (war had however ended on 24 April without his knowledge)
Occupation	14 Sep 1629
	Left Tadoussac for England with 6 685 pelts belonging to Émery de Caën (6 253 beaver and 432 elk skins)
Occupation	20 Oct 1629
	Arrived at Plymouth (Émery de Caën would later be awarded £14.300 in damages by the Admiralty Court)
Occupation	27 Oct 1629
	Arrived at Dover where the French (including the Jésuite and Récollet priests) were released
Occupation	29 Oct 1629
	Disembarked at Gravesend, arriving in London by way of the Thames with Samuel de Champlain and Claude de Saint-Étienne de La Tour
Occupation	21 Jan 1650
	Sustained a loss of £12.500 by the depredations of the French and seizure of his ship "Marie Fortune" at Tadoussac in 1633
Occupation	1654
	Petition to Oliver Cromwell concerning £48.383 claimed from the French for the restitution of Canada
Occupation	1656
	Helped Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour in getting from Cromwell a share of Acadia jointly with Sir Thomas Temple & William Crowne
Occupation	1656
	La Tour gave him £5.000 sterling
Occupation	19 Jul 1660
	Petition to the Committee for Foreign Relations whereby his legitimate rights to Acadia had been committed to the benefit of Thomas Temple
Occupation	11 Dec 1660
	Petition to the King: £60.000 sterling due to him by articles of agreement with the French at the surrender of Québec 1632
Occupation	11 Dec 1660
	Prays that Nova Scotia and Canada may not be put into the hands of any other until his grievances are heard
Occupation	12 Sep 1661
	Letter from Charles Hill in Ferryland concerning "Lord Baltimore's interest in Newfoundland"
Occupation	1664
	Inherited Lewis' sinecure
Occupation	1669
	Part of the limited group whose members financed the solo expedition that Pierre-Esprit Radisson undertook
Occupation	1672
	Allowed Pierre-Esprit Radisson to marry his daughter Mary
Occupation	1674
	Knighted by King Charles II
Occupation	1670-1676
	Member of the Hudson's Bay Company steering committee
Residence	12 Jun 1685	St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England
Will	12 Jun 1685	London, Middlesex, England
Died	23 Jun 1685	St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England
Buried	23 Jun 1685	St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England
Probate	24 Jun 1685	Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Person ID	I6064	Godbout
Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

Father	Gervase Kirke, b. 1568, Norton, North Derbyshire, England , d. 17 Dec 1629, Basin Lane, London, Middlesex, England (Age 61 years)
Mother	Élizabeth Gaudin, b. Abt 1575, France , d. Aft 1638 (Age ~ 64 years)
Married	1596	Dieppe, archev. Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Normandie, France
Family ID	F3455	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Children

1. Mary Elizabeth Kirke, b. England

, d. Bef 1685

Last Modified 18 Apr 2017

Family ID F3114 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Sources

[S186] Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, Gouverneur en Acadie, 1593-1666, au tribunal de l'histoire, L'abbé Azarie Couillard-Després et Louis Riboulet, (Le Courrier de St-Hyacinthe, Saint-Hyacinthe, 1932), 30.
In 1627, a war arising, Sir David Kirke, his brethrens and relations, by his Majesty's Commission sent nine ships to expel all the French from the river Canada, and seized 18 French ships, with 135 pieces of ordinance, designed for the relief of Royal Fort (Port Royal, sic) and Quebec, under command of M. de Rochmond and the La Tour, father of the Governor of Royal Fort, whom with said ships and guns they brought to England. (Representation of Sir Lewis Kirke and John Kirke, concerning Acadia and Nova Scotia, Calendar State Papers, vol. XVI, N° 1, British Museum, London).
[S606] Histoire du Canada, huitième édition, revue et augmentée par Hector Garneau, François-Xavier Garneau, (Éditions de l'Arbre, Montréal, 1944), Tome I, Livre premier, chapitre 3, pp. 183-188.
David Kirke [s'empara de l'établissement de Miscou (1628) ; il captura un navire appartenant à la nouvelle Compagnie qui conduisait Claude de La Tour et un Jésuite, le P. Noyrot, en Acadie ainsi que] plusieurs bâtiments occupés à la traite et à la pêche. [Pendant ce temps ses frères (John et James) se rendaient maîtres de Port-Royal et du fort (Pentagouët) que La Tour avait construit à l'entrée de la rivière Penobscot (1614)]. (p. 184).
[S644] Dictionnaire général du Canada, Louis Le Jeune, (Université d'Ottawa, Canada; Imprimé en France, Firmin-Didot et Cie., Mesnil, Eure, 1931), Tome 1, pp. 859-860 & Tome 2, p. 492.
Dictionnaire général de biographie, histoire, littérature, agriculture, commerce, industrie et des arts, sciences, moeurs, coutumes, institutions politiques et religieuses du Canada. Pendant ce temps (1628), les frères (John et James) Kirke s'emparaient de Port Royal et du fort que Claude de La Tour avait bâti à l'entrée de la rivière Pentagouët en 1613-1614.
[S586] A History of Nova Scotia, or Acadie, Beamish Murdoch, Esq., Q. C., (James Barnes, Halifax, N. S., 1865-1866), Volume I, p. 72.
Pentagoët and Sainte Croix appear to have been captured by the English in 1628.
[S643] Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB/DBC), (University of Toronto Press & Les Presses de l'université Laval, 1966, 1969, 1974, 1979 & 1982), Volume II, p. 538.
[S3] Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes, Cyprien Tanguay, (Éditions Eusèbe Sénécal, Montréal, 1871-1890), none., Volume 1, p. 507.
Également: À travers les registres, Librairie Saint-Joseph, Cadieux & Derome, Montréal, 1886, pp. 15-16 : Prise de Québec avec 600 hommes (90 y demeurèrent pour occuper la place).
[S742] France and England in North America, Francis Parkman, (The Library of America, Library Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, 1983), Volume I, pp. 323-324.
Before me is a copy of the original agreement for the restitution of Quebec and Port Royal, together with ships and goods taken after the peace. It is indorsed, Articles arrestés entre les Députés des Deux Couronnes pour la Restitution des Choses qui ont été prises depuis le Traité de Paix fait entre elles; 24 avril, 1629 (à Suze).
[S740] Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1660, Volume 1, Preserved in the Public Record Office. Edited by W. Noël Sainsbury, Esq., (Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London, 1860), 333; 415; 484 & 494.
[S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 40 (1886), p. 177.
Minutes from the Records of the Privy Council at Whitehall relating to Nova Scotia, dated 26 Feb. & 7 March 1661 and 23 April 1662, referring to petitions of Sir Lewis Kirke Knight John Kirke Esq. and others on the one part, and Col. Thomas Temple in his own behalf. The business of the last meeting was a grant of the Government of Nova Scotia &c. to Col. Thomas Temple during life. Egerton MS., No. 2395, British Museum.
[S741] Pierre-Esprit Radisson: Merchant, Adventurer, 1636-1710, Martin Fournier, translated by Mary E. Brennan-Ricard, (Les éditions du Septentrion, Sillery, Québec, 2002), 175.