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New genealogical info on wife Jane.
Please see Mayflower Descendant vol 69 No.1 Winter 2021 pages 45-60 by William E. Cole. He has solved the mystery... Jane's maiden name is Yates and she was first married to Thomas Clarke.
Please also see Mayflower Descendant vol 71 no. 1 Winter 2023 pages 27-33. Bill Cole gives a possible identification of Jane's granddaughter Sarah (Walker) Warren M3ZT-B3J.
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Granddaughter Sarah Walker?
On 19 November 1645 Nathaniel Warren, son of Richard Warren, married at Plymouth Sarah Walker. On 7 June 1653 "Mrs. Jane Collyare in behalf of her grandchild the wife of the said Nathaniel Warren" petitioned Plymouth Court in a land dispute.
John Insley Coddington has suggested that when William Collier married her, Jane Clark was a widow, and that by her Clark husband she had a daughter who married a Walker. Coddington further suggests that the Sara, daughter of William Walker, who was baptized at St. Olave’s, Southwark, on 10 November 1622 was the grandchild of Jane Collier who married Nathaniel Warren. If this solution proves to be correct, it would also explain the 1650 land transaction in which William Collier granted to "my kinsman William Clark"
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https://archive.org/details/greatmigrationbe0001robe/mode/2up
The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Vol 1, Robert Anderson, The New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 2012, pp. 448-449.
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Summary of research prior to 2021 article
From an article in "The American Genealogist", vol 42, pg 121: "What of the Clarke ancestry? A clue may lie in the will of John Arnold, dyer, of St. Olave's, Southwark, dated 16 Mar 1617/18 (PCC Soame no. 1228). In it the testator referred to Richard, Hugh and William Clarke, sons of testator's late sister Joyce Clark, decd, and to the children of his brother Thomas Arnold. Of this will a witness was William Collyer, doubtless the man who in 1633 came to New England, for note that the latter was in 1612 obligated to John Arnold, dyer, for acting as his surety, and 1612 is the year after Collier married Jane Clark, perhaps kinswoman to John Arnold's sister Joyce. It is worth also stating that a John Clarke married Elizabeth Hobson on 17 Aug 1589 at St. Olave's, Southwark, the parish in which the Colliers are found. While this is very inconclusive as to the Clarke line, it is hoped that these data will permit researchers into that family to gain further insight into its possible origin." Duane Josephson said there is a record of Mrs. Jane Collier making a claim on 7 June 1653 on behalf of her granddaughter, the wife of Nathaniel Warren, who has been identified as Sarah Walker, daughter of William Walker, baptized at St. Olave, Southwark, 10 Nov 1622, who married Nathaniel Warren in 1645. I have not found this record. It may be in an article in "The American Genealogist" of Apr 1975 titled "Sarah Walker, Wife of Nathaniel Warren" by John Insley Coddington. Duane referred to this article saying there is a statement "Jane Clark, wife of William Collier, grocer, evidently must have been a widow at the time of her marriage in 1611 in order to explain her relationship to her grand-daughter Sarah Walker, who was married in 1645". "The Great Migration..." says "On 19 Nov 1645 Nathaniel Warren, son of Richard Warren, married at Plymouth Sarah Walker [PCR 2:94]. On 7 June 1653 'Mrs. Jane Collyare in behalf of her grandchild the wife of the said Nathaniel Warren' petitioned Plymouth Court in a land dispute [MD 3:14]. John Insley Coddington has suggested that when William Collier married her, Jane Clark was a widow, and that by her Clark husband she had a daughter who married a Walker [TAG 51:92-93]. Coddington further suggests that the Sara, daughter of William Walker, who was baptized at St. Olave's, Southwark, on 10 November 1622 was the grandchild of Jane Collier who married Nathaniel Warren. If this solution proves to be correct, it would also explain the 1650 land transaction in which William Collier granted to 'my kinsman William Clark" [PCR 12:182]. It is evident that if William Collier of Duxbury, Mass, is the same as the William Colliar who married Jane Clarke in Southwark in 1611, it could not have been gr-daughter of that marriage (born only 11 years after). Could Jane Clark have been married before and had a grandchild born in 1622? It is possible, even if she were born as late as 1586, married at age 17 in 1603, had a son or daughter born 1604 who married at age 17 in 1621 and had Sarah in 1622. From apprentice and guild records it has been estimated that William Collier was born about 1585. Also, it is possible that the Jane Clarke who married William Collier could have been older than he. But there was no indication that the Jane Clarke in the Southwark record was a widow. In fact, there is evidence that Clarke was her maiden name. (See above and notes of her husband for further about the Clarke connection) Also, this poses a question about the child claimed by Torrey's "Mass. Marriages" to have been born in Duxbury in 1635. To have been grandmother of Sarah (Walker) Warren and also mother of the child born in 1635 would be stretching probability. Following maternal line assumption, if the grandaughter were born 1622, the mother born 1605 (17 yrs old at birth of the daughter) and the grandmother born 1588 (17 yrs old at birth of the one born 1605) she would be 47 yrs old in 1635. It would seem more likely that the Jane he married in England was mother of the child born 1635 in Duxbury, (if in truth there was such a child), the mother dying soon after, and he then married the other Jane, she being the grandmother of Sarah (Walker) Warren. This needs further research. Duane's sources are "Plymouth Colony" by Eugene A. Stratton; "The Children of William Collier" by Robert S. Wakefield; "Origin of Three Early Plymouth Families..." by John G. Hunt, (found in "American Genealogist" vol 42 pg 119); "Saints and Strangers" by George F. Willison; "Moore and Allied Families" by L. Effingham DeForest; "A Gen. Dict. of First Settlers of N . E." by James Savage; "New Eng. Marriages Prior to 1700" by C. A. Torrey.
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! Name from The Complete Mayflower Descendant, disk 1, The Mayflower Descendant, Vol II, Pilgrim Notes and Queries (disk 203 FTM). !See PCR 3:152.
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!arrived 1633 on "Mary & James". First
!arrived 1633 on "Mary & James". First husband a CLARK, married abt 1608, he died abt 1610
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!NOTES: See biographical notes in "Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691," by Eugene Aubrey Stratton, 1986, p. 268.
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Jane Clarke information
December 26, 2019
I used the following resource to validate this ancestors information;
https://gw.geneanet.org/elizabethbidez?lang=en&p=jane&n=clarke
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Jane's Maiden Name is not Clarke that was her first husbands last name.See description!
May 15, 2021
Please see Mayflower Descendant vol 69 No.1 Winter 2021 pages 45-60 by William E. Cole , M.A. has solved the mystery... Jane's maiden name is Yates and she did have a 1st marriage she was 16yrs 7mos per article, to a Thomas Clarke 9/27/1603 at St Benet's Gracechurch Parish, London Eng. by special license and they had 5 children...so looks like the currently attached parents need to be changed as Clarke is not her maiden name! Later she married William Collier as is known!
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