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Gervase Kirke

Male 1568 - 1629  (61 years)


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  • Name Gervase Kirke  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Born 1568  Norton, North Derbyshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1587  Dieppe, archev. Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Military 1627 
    The Letters of Marque commissioned by Charles I allowed them to displace the French from "The River of Canada" 
    Occupation Englishman of Derbyshire who had long lived (40 years) at Dieppe where he married a Frenchwoman 
    Occupation 1627 
    Dieppe importer and London merchant (wine was the core business) 
    Occupation 1627 
    Formed the Company of Adventurers to Canada with William Barkeley to secure the fur trade of Acadia and the St. Lawrence River 
    Property Son of Thurston Kirke of Greenhill (Derbyshire) 
    Residence 1629  Basin Lane, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 17 Dec 1629  Basin Lane, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 22 Dec 1629  All Hallow's Church, Bread Street, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6788  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Family Élizabeth Gaudin,   b. Abt 1575, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1638  (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Married 1596  Dieppe, archev. Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Sir David Kirke,   b. Abt 1597, Dieppe, archev. Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1654, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years)
     2. Sir Lewis Kirke,   b. Abt 1599, Dieppe, archev. Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1663, London, Savoy Parish, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years)
     3. Thomas Kirke,   b. Abt 1603, Dieppe, archev. Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1642, England (shortly after the Battle of Edgehill) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 39 years)
     4. Sir John Kirke,   b. Abt 1605, Dieppe, archev. Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jun 1685, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years)
     5. James Kirke,   b. Aft 1605, Dieppe, archev. Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1656, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F3455  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [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), 114 & 130.

    2. [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. 316-317.

    3. [S762] The History of Canada, William Kingsford, (Rowsell & Hutchison, Toronto, Trübner & Co., Ludgate Hill, London, 1887-1888), Volume I, p. 142.

    4. [S644] Dictionnaire général du Canada, Louis Le Jeune, (Université d'Ottawa, Canada; Imprimé en France, Firmin-Didot et Cie., Mesnil, Eure, 1931), Tome 1, p. 859.
      Dictionnaire général de biographie, histoire, littérature, agriculture, commerce, industrie et des arts, sciences, moeurs, coutumes, institutions politiques et religieuses du Canada.

    5. [S643] Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB/DBC), (University of Toronto Press & Les Presses de l'université Laval, 1966, 1969, 1974, 1979 & 1982), Volume I, p. 404.

    6. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 40 (1886), p. 176.

    7. [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, p. 183.