William Collier

William Collier (c. 1583–1670/1)

Jane Yates (bp. 1587–aft. 1666)

English Ancestry of Jane Yates [1]

Henry Yates, a dyer, was buried at St. Olave on 8 August 1593. He married Alice ___. She was buried on 29 March 1626 at St. Olave. She married second John Arnold on 14 January 1593 at St. Olave. He was buried on 5 November 1620 St. Olave.

Henry and five of his children died during the outbreak of the plague in London in 1593 to 1593. His posthumous daughter Margaret died during the outbreak of 1602 to 1603. His widow Alice died during the outbreak of 1625 to 1626.

Children of Henry and Alice Yates, all baptisms and burials at St. Olave, order uncertain:

i. Samuel Yates was buried on 15 April 1592.

ii. [John?] Yates was buried on 10 October 1592.

iii. Alice Yates was buried on 5 August 1593.

iv. Thomas Yates was buried on 24 August 1593.

v. Nathaniel Yates was baptized on 24 November 1583. He was buried on 9 August 1593.

vi. Henry Yates was baptized on 8 November 1584.

vii. Jane Yates was baptized on 5 February 1586/7.

viii. Ursula Yates was baptized on 2 March 1588/9. She was buried on 30 May 1589.

ix. Margaret Yates was baptized on 14 October 1593. She was buried on 25 July 1603.

William Collier was born about 1583. [1] He died between 29 May 1670 and 5 July 1671. [2] He married Jane (Yates) Clark on 16 May 1611 at St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey. [1][2]

Jane Yates was baptized on 5 February 1586/7 at St. Olave. [1] She died after 28 June 1666. She married first Thomas Clark by a license of 27 September 1603 at St. Benet’s Gracechurch Parish, London. [1] He was buried on 16 September 1610 at St. Olave. [1]

William testified that he was about 85 in 1668. [1]

William was a grocer in England. [2] He was apprenticed to William Russell for eight years and was sworn in the Grocers Company of London on 16 August 1609. [2]

William and Jane lost five children and Jane lost a daughter by her first marriage in 1625 and early 1626—during an outbreak of the plague that killed about 35,000 people in London.

William and Jane migrated in 1633 and settled in Plymouth. [2] They moved to Duxbury after 1639. [2]

William was admitted a freeman on 1 January 1633/4. His name appears in the Duxbury section of a 29 May 1670 list of freemen, but it is crossed out and it is annotated that he was deceased. [2]

Given the offices William held, he was apparently well educated. He was an Assistant in 1635–1637, 1639–1651, and 1654–1665. He was a Plymouth commissioner to the United Colonies in 1643. He was a member of many important committees, including the committee to review laws on 3 June 1657. [2]

Children of Thomas Clark and Jane Yates, baptized at St. Olave: [1]

i. Margaret Clark was baptized on 27 September 1605. She was buried on 24 July 1625 at St. Olave. [1] She married Alexander Wilding on 28 October 1623 at St. Olave. [1]

ii. Thomas Clark was baptized on 17 February 1606/7. He was living on 3 February 1625/6. [1]

iii. Joyce Clark was baptized on 30 August 1608. She was living on 3 February 1625/6. [1]

iv. Henry Clark was baptized on 22 July 1610. [JC] He was buried on 27 July 1610 at St. Olave. [1]

Children of William Collier and Jane Clark, i.–vii. and xii. baptized at St. Olave [1] [2]

i. Mary Collier was baptized on 18 February 1611/2 in St. Olave, Southwark, co. Surrey. She died before 8 December 1662. She married Thomas Prence.

ii. Hannah Collier was baptized on 14 September 1613. She was buried on 31 August 1625 at St. Olave. [1][2]

iii. Rebecca Collier was baptized on 10 January 1614/5. She married Job Cole on 15 May 1634 in Plymouth. [2] Job, the son of John and Francis Cole, was baptized on 6 May 1608 at Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire. [1] He died between 1683 and 20 December 1698, probably in Eastham. [1]

iv. Sarah Collier was baptized on 30 April 1616. She died on 26 April 1691 in Plymouth. [1] She married first Love Brewster on 15 May 1634 in Plymouth. [1][2] She married second Richard Park between 1 September 1656 and 12 July 1665. [1] He was born about 1602 in England and died between 12 July and 4 August 1665, probably in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [1]

v. John Collier was baptized on 18 March 1616/7. He was buried on 24 August 1618 at St. Olave. [1][2]

vi. Elizabeth Collier was baptized on 9 March 1618/9. She died after 20 February 1678/9, possibly in Duxbury. [1] She married Constant Southworth on 2 November 1637 in Plymouth. [2] He died on 11 March 1678/9 in Duxbury. [1]

vii. John Collier was baptized on 29 March 1619/20. He was buried on 7 August 1625 at St. Olave. [1][2]

viii. Catheren Collier was buried on 13 January 1621/2 at St. Olave. [1][2]

ix. James Collier was baptized on 16 March 1662/3 at St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey. [JC][2] He was buried on 24 August 1624 at St. Olave. [1][2]

x. Martha Collier was baptized on 28 March 1624 at St. Mary Magdalen. [1][2] She was buried on 30 May 1625 at St. Olave. [1][2]

xi. William Collier was buried on 12 August 1625 at St. Olave. [1][2]

xii. Lydia Collier was baptized on 8 March 1625/6. She was buried on 12 March 1625/6 at St. Olave. [1][2]

xiii. Ruth Collier was baptized on 5 August 1627 at St. Savior’s Parish, Southwark. [1] She died on 15 December 1694 in Eastham. [1] She married Daniel Cole, the brother of her sister Rebecca’s husband. [1] Daniel was baptized on 26 December 1614 in Weeden Bec and died on 21 December 1694 in Eastham. [1]

Endnotes

1. William E. Cole, “Jane Clarke: A Strong Woman: The English Origins of William Collier’s Wife,” Mayflower Descendant (2021): 45–60.

2. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 446–40.

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07-Sep-2023