Jane Yates (mtDNA)
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Status summary
Completed as of May 6, 2021:
- Recruiting additional matrilineal (direct female-line) Jane Clarke descendants for full mtDNA testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact Raymond T. Wing (email: wing.genealogist AT gmail DOT com)
Biography
First Generation
The Winter 2021 Mayflower Descendant has published an article on the Cole family. It states Jane's maiden name was Yates, she was baptized St. Olave, Southwark 5 Feb 15867, daughter of Henry Yates and Alice _____. She married twice, first St. Benet's Gracechurch, London 27 Sep 1603 Thomas Clarke[1] and second St. Olave, Bermondsey, Surrey, England 16 May 1611 to William Collier. By her first husband she had: Margaret (1605), Thomas (1606/7), Joyce (1608) and Henry (1610-1610). By her second husband Jane is said to have had thirteen children: Mary (bp 18 Feb 1611/2), Hannah (1613-1625), Rebecca (1614/5), Sarah (1616), John (1616/7-1618), Elizabeth (1618/9), John (1619/20-1625), Catherine (bur. 1621/2), James (1622/3-1624), Martha (1624-1625), William (1625-1625), Lydia (1625/6-1625/6) and Ruth (1627).
Second Generation
Joyce Clarke was bp St. Olave, Bermonsey 30 Aug 1608, married William Walker and they had at least one child: Sarah (bp 1622).
Mary Collier was bp. St. Olave, Bermondsey 18 Feb 1611/2 and died Eastham abt. 1644. She married Plymouth 1 Apr 1635 (Gov.) Thomas Prence and they had two children (Duxbury): Jane (1637) and Sarah (c1639).
Rebecca Collier was bp. St. Olave, Bermondsey 10 Jan 1614/5 and died Duxbury 29 Dec 1698. She married Plymouth 15 May 1634 John Cole and they had two children (?Eastham): Rebecca (1654) and Samuel.
Sarah Collier was bp. St. Olave, Bermondsey 30 Apr 1616 and died Duxbury 26 Apr 1691. She married twice, first Plymouth 15 May 1634 Love Brewster and second Duxbury 1 Sep 1656 Richard Parke (no children). By her first husband Sarah had four children: Sarah (1635), Nathaniel (1637), Wrestling (1644) and William (1645).
Elizabeth Collier was bp. St. Olave, Bermondsey 9 Mar 1618/9 and died Duxbury aft Feb 1679. She married Plymouth 2 Nov 1637 Constant Southworth and they had nine children: Mercy (1638), Priscilla (c1642), Edward (1644), Nathaniel (c1646), Alice (1648), Mary (c1654), Elizabeth (c1656) and William (1659).
Ruth Collier was bp. St. Savior's, Bermondsey 5 Aug 1627 and died Eastham 15 Dec 1694. She married bef 1644 Daniel Cole and they had
Third Generation
Sarah Walker was bp. St. Olave, Bermondsey 10 Nov 1622 and died Plymouth 24 Nov 1700. She married Plymouth 19 Nov 1645 Nathaniel Warren and they had twelve children: Richard (1646), Sarah (1649), Hope (1651), Jane (1652), Elizabeth (1654), Alice (1656), Mercy (1658), Mary (1659), Nathaniel (1661), John (1663), James (1665) and Jabez (c1667).
Jane Prence was born Duxbury 1 Nov 1637 and died Harwich in Jun 1712. She married Eastham 9 Jan 1660/1 Mark Snow and they had eight children: Mary (1661), Nicholas (1663), Elizabeth (1666), Thomas (1668), Sarah (1671), Prence (1674), Elizabeth (1676-1677) and Hannah (1679).
Mary Prence was born abt 1639 and died Eastham aft 1697. She married abt 1661 John Tracy and they had four children: John (c1661), Apphia (c1663), Stephen (c1673) and Susannah (1676).
Rebecca Cole was born Eastham 26 Aug 1654 and died Yarmouth in 1710. She married Robert Nickerson and they had at least: Rebecca (1670).
Sarah Brewster was born 1635 and died Duxbury bef 21 Jan 1679. She married Duxbury aft 4 Apr 1654 Benjamin Bartlett and they had three children (Duxbury): Benjamin (1658), Samuel (c1662) and Rebecca (b1664).
Mercy Southworth was born Duxbury 11 May 1638 and died Eastham 25 Nov 1712. She married Eastham 12 May 1658 (Dea.) Samuel Freeman (II) and they had nine children: Apphia (1659-1660), Samuel (1662), Apphia (1666 m Isaac Pepper), Constant (1669), Elizabeth (1671 m Abraham Remick & Joseph Merrick), Alice (c1673 m Nathaniel Merrick), Edward (c1675), Mary (c1676 m John Cole) and Mercy
Priscilla Southworth c1642
Alice Southworth 1648
Mary Southworth c1654
Elizabeth Southworth c1656
- ↑ Jane petitioned the Plymouth court in 1653 "in behalf of her grandchild the wife of the said Nathaniel Warren." Nathaniel married Sarah Walker.
DNA results H13a1a
Previous Y-DNA testing
According to wikitree there is one mtDNA descendant who has taken a mtDNA test and has published his results: Haplogroup H13a1a.
Line:
Jane ______ Elizabeth Collier Mary Southworth Priscilla Alden Mary Chesebrough Hannah Hewitt Lucinda Wheeler Betsey Main Elmira Burrows Arrilla Vannatter Lucy Jennie Burrows Margaret Augusta Clemens mother of tester tester
References & External Links
- Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633), New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 1995
- Cole, William E., "Jane Clarke: A Strong Woman[.] The English Origins of William Collier's Wife, The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 69 (Winter 2021) pp. 45-60