Name |
Oliver de Port-St. John |
Suffix |
Esquire of Marlborough; 'Black Oliver' |
Birth |
Jul 15, 1561 |
St Martin Orgar and St Clement Cheapside, London, England |
Gender |
Male |
Fact |
Nov 14, 1580 |
Lincoln's Inn (Age 19 years) |
Oliver St. John, Wilts. Late of New Inn admitted to Lincoln's Inn
https://archive.org/details/recordshonorabl05englgoog/page/90/mode/2up?q=%22St.+John%22 |
CAUS |
Oct 11, 1614 |
Marlborough, England (Age 53 years) |
Author of the letter to the Mayor of Marlborough. Lord Bacon describes him as a gentlemen of ancient house and name, and as being a principal person and a dweller in that town (Marlborough), and one whom the mayor considered likely to give both money and good example. In this public letter, Oliver declared, to the Mayor of Marlborough, that the King, in asking his people for a free gift of money, was violating his oath, commiting a perjury more gross than that for which an English monarch has lost his crown. (St. John to Mayor of Marlborough, Oct. 11, 1614, R.O.) Imprisoned in the tower in 1615 and 1616. |
Name |
"Black Oliver"
- Clarendon states of the "latter" (assuming he was the Lord Chief Justice?) that Oliver "was a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn, reserved and of a dark and clouded countenance, very proud, and conversing with very few, and those men of his own humour and inclinations." -- a swarthy complexion seems to have been hereditary in this family. Leland, Itinerary, vi. 27, speaking of "Olyver Saynt John, sonne to the excellent duchesse of Somerset" (as he is designated in his will, printed in Nicolas's testaments Vetusta, and in Jacob's Peerage, and which will is dated in 1494), describe him as "a black and big felow that died at Fonterabye in Spayne, when the late Marquise of Dorset was there." This Oliver was the founder of the family of Lydiard Tregoze. (Letters from George Lord Carew to Sir Thomas Roe, ambassador to the court of the Great Mogul. 1615-1617 - George Carew Earl of Totnes, Sir Thomas Roe Edited by John Maclean, F.S.A.) |
Death |
aft. 1615 |
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Siblings |
2 Siblings |
+ | 1. Oliver de Port-St. John, Esquire of Marlborough; 'Black Oliver', b. Jul 15, 1561, St Martin Orgar and St Clement Cheapside, London, England d. aft. 1615 (Age 54 years) ▻ Jane de Port-St. John, Nicholas, de Port-St. John, m. Feb 14, 1606 ; Margaret Love, m. Jun 02, 1588 | | 2. John de Port-St. John, b. 1563 d. 1563 (Age 0 years) | | 3. Oliver de Port-St. John, b. abt. 1565 | |
Origins |
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Patriarch & Matriarch |
Oliver de Port-St. John, of Fonmon (ANCESTRY NOT CERTAIN BEYOND THIS POINT), b. 1300-1326, Fonmon Castle (Welsh: Castell Ffwl-y-mwn), East Aberthaw, Glamorgan, Wales d. aft. 1372, Fonmon Castle (Welsh: Castell Ffwl-y-mwn), East Aberthaw, Glamorgan, Wales (Age 47 years) (4 x Great Grandfather) Joan / Jane Skynner, Henbury, Smallwood, de Port-St. John, b. abt. 1530 d. Oct 29, 1562, St Mary, Lambeth, Surrey, England (Age 32 years) (Mother) |
Headstones |
Submit Headstone Photo |
Person ID |
I10020 |
St. John Origin and Ancestry DNA Database | St. John Generation One - Raoul de Sancto Johanne |
Last Modified |
May 20, 2022 |
Father |
Oliver de Port-St. John, of Lambeth, Surrey, b. abt. 1508, Lydiard Tregroze, Wilshire, England d. Apr 19, 1571, St Marys, Lambeth, Surrey, England (Age 63 years) Other Partners: Anne Stokes (?) m. bef. 1559; Alice Roydon m. Aug 03, 1563; Eleanor Burbage m. Jul 10, 1567 |
Relationship |
Birth |
Mother |
Joan / Jane Skynner, Henbury, Smallwood, de Port-St. John, b. abt. 1530 d. Oct 29, 1562, St Mary, Lambeth, Surrey, England (Age 32 years) Other Partners: William Henbury m. abt. 1547; Robert Smallwood m. Apr 16, 1554 |
Relationship |
Birth |
Marriage |
Jul 03, 1559 |
St Margarets, Westminster, England |
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Family ID |
F743 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 2 |
Margaret Love, b. abt. 1561, Of Winchelsea, Sussex, England d. Sep 19, 1606, St Mary's, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England (Age 45 years)
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Marriage |
Jun 02, 1588 |
England |
Children |
| 1. Nicholas de Port-St. John, Esquire, b. abt. 1589, Wiltshire, England d. aft. 1660, Wiltshire, England (Age 72 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth]
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+ | 2. Oliver de Port-St. John, m. Millicent Parker of Virginia Company, b. abt. 1590 d. Oct 29, 1626, Lydiard Millicent, Wiltshire, England (Age 36 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth]
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| 3. John de Port-St. John, b. abt. 1591 d. aft. 1615 (Age 25 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
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Family ID |
F744 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
Jul 22, 2023 |