Dear Calvert Study Group:
These "Wills" Vicki has given us are absolutely
fascinating. The following 4 paragraphs discuss a
Charles Calvert who was Gov. Calvert of Maryland
and yet apparently unrelated to the Lord
Baltimore line of Calverts. These paragraphs
appear to have been written by a close relative
in the 1700's.
"The identity of Gov. Charles Calvert of Maryland
(1688-1733/4) still remains a mystery and this
writer has found not the slightest suggestion as
to his origin. His mother, Countess Henrietta
Calvert, followed her s. to America and d. here
circa 1728 (Md. Hist. Mag., Vol. II, pp. 220,
321).
His aunt's death is recorded thus in the Register
of St. Ann's Church, Annaplois: " 8 Aug., 1722:
Madame Margaret Lazenby, aunt to our presetn
Governor, Charles Calvert, Esq." She was
presumably the mother of that Charles Calvert
Lazenby to whom land was granted in Maryland in
1701.
There were Lazenby's who survived her in
Maryland, who were probably her kinsfolk.
Charlotte Calvert Brerewood calls Gov. Charles "
our cousin the Captain" and he may conceivably
have been a Calvert cousin from the North
Country, who will be identified when the
Yorkshire family background or Sir George is
eventually clarified. There was a family of
gentry named Lazenby in Catterick Parish,
Yorkshire, close by the village of Kipling
(Victoria Youkshire, North Riding; Md. Hist.
mag., Vol.I pp. 289-90)."
I didn't even realize that we had a Gov. Charles Calvert
of Maryland in the early 1700's. He apparently
immigrated from England to America in the early
1700's. Has anyone traced this line of the family.
Also if it is helpful to other Study Group
Members, I have broken the "Wills" into distinct
paragraphs. This helps me read them and if it helps
you, I can republish them. A sample follows this
message.
George Calvert
cybercat(a)ntr.net
*WILL OF REV. THOMAS CALVERT (Aug. 3, 1638)
(Rector of Parish Church of Heysham, Lancashire,
England)
The Will of Rev. THOMAS CALVERT *5* of Heysham,
Lancashire, dated 3 Aug., 1638. (Abstract; copy of
will in full in Md. Hist. Soc. Mss. Coll. )
THOMAS CALVERT, Masters of Arts, Rector of parish
church of Heysham; "my great age"; to be buried in
the said church of Heysham; leases in Cockerham
and Pillinge or elsewhere in Lancashire;
wife ELIZABETH; son JOHN; youngest son THOMAS;
youngest daughters "yet unproffered, " CLEMENCE
and GRACE;
to GEORGE CALVERT, f20;
to son OLIVER CALVERT;
to son WILLIAM CALVERT;
to grandchild THOMAS GARDNER;
"loving friend and ancient acquaintance" NICHOLAS
WILLIAMSON;
Referee, THOMAS CARUS;
Executrix, wife ELIZABETH;
Overseer, son OLIVER;
Witnesses, THOMAS CARUS, RICHARD DANIELL, ROB;T
ATKINSON, NICHOLAS WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM WEST."
(Archdeaconry Court of Richmond, Kendal Deanery;
filed at Somerset House, London. No Probate
Act).
*5* The Rev. Thos. Calvert ( -1638), father
of John Calvert of St. Andrews Holborn
(1609-1689), was admitted to Trinity College,
Cambridge, 1586.
Trinity held the advowson of Heversham,
Westmoreland, and Thomas Calvert was its vicar
(1604-1638)
as was he rector of nearby Heysham, Lanc.
(1606-1638_.
The Rev. Oliver Calvert of Christ's College,
Cambridge, presented unsuccessfully as the
Rector's successor at Heysham in 1638 and vicar
of Heacham, Norfolk, from 1638 to his death in
1661, was quite possibly the son Oliver named in
the will above.
Rev. Thos. Calvert had a son, Rev. Wm. Calvert,
bapt. Heversham, 8 May, 1612, admitted to
Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1631, ae. 19, who
was vicar of Cockerham from 1649.
His daus. Grace and Mary are named in their uncle
John Calvert's will, 1688.
One of the Rev. Thos. Calvert's daus. had m.,
before 1638, a Gardiner and was then already the
mother of Thomas.
The Gardiners of Lancashire were a well-known
family, some of whom settled in Norfolk and were
prominent there.
Another daughter of Rev. Thomas Calvert m. a
Caton, which is interesting in view of the fact
that Richard Caton, founder of the Maryland
family, is said to have come from Heysham,
Lancashire (Md. Hist. Mag., Vol. XVI, p. 300).
*CALVERTS OF COCKERHAM PARISH, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND
The Calverts had been in Cockerham parish,
Lancashire, since 1363, at least, when the Abbot
complained that one Adam Calfherd had cut down
some of his trees.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the
parish was divided among many small proprietors,
the Daltons of Thrunham and the Calverts of
Cockerham being the principal residents.
The name is invariably Calvert, spelled in a
variety of ways, but none of them approaching
Calverley.
John Calvert of Cockerham, Esq., however (whose
relationship to the Rev. Thomas has not been
traced by the writer) gave St. George, the Herald
an elaborate pedigree in 1613, claiming descent
from the important family of Calverley of the
north of England, whereupon he was given
permission to use the Calverley arms. Indeed he
went so far as to sign the pedigree "John
Calverley."
Careful writers seem never to have taken this
claim seriously, however, and the names are
indexed quite separately. Benedict Leonard
Calvert (1700-1732), the antiquarian Governor of
Maryland, did some research pon his family and
told Hearne that he believed himself descended
from the "Calverts or Calverleys of Lancashire.
" Considering the pronouncement of St. George that
the Kipling Calverts were recently out of
Flanders, this surmise of the Governor's is
interesting. It would not be surprising if
historians were obliged in time to discredit this
tradititon of a Flemish descent for the founders
of Maryland, perticularly as the name is an
ancient one throughout the North Counties of
England.
Father Charles Calvert (1620-1651) was of the
Cockerham family who believed themselves to be
Calverleys, but just how these converts to
Catholicism were related to the foregoing
clergymen of the Established Church does not
appear ( English Province of S.J., General
Statistics, Vol. I, pp. 110, 661).
Father Calvert's mother was Jane Pershall, a
sister of Mrs. Richard Brent of the Maryland
connection.
The Dict. of Nat. Biog. describes a gifted family
of North Country Calverts, one of whose members
was Frederick Baltimore Calvert, the actor
(1793-1874). They seem to have descended
maternally from the German family of Raiseley
which settled in Coniston, Lanc., and they were
long in the employ of the Howards, Dukes of
Norfolk (Trans. Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Arch.
soc., new series, Vol X, pp. 375, etc.).
Rev. John Calvert (1671-1739), said by the Gent.
Mag., 1739, to have been a " near relative of
Lord Baltimore, " was a s. of George Calvert and
Johanna Meale of Colebrook parish, Bucks. Gyll
(Hundred of Wanting) says they were of the
Hertfordshire family (Victoria Hertfordshire
Families, pp. 53, et seq).
Some of the existing accounts make Ann Calvert
Rolt a daughter of this house. She was, however,
the daughter of the fourth Lord Baltimore (Md.
Hist. Mag., Vol. XXII. pp. 14,15; Hearne, Diary,
Vol.IX,p. 272; Gibbons and Davey, Wantage, p.
119; Clarke, Hist. of Wanting, p. 197).
Cecilius, Lord Baltimore, had some connection
with Samson Calvert of St. Dunstans in the West,
London in 1645. Samson had entered Oxford, 1623
ae. 20, and was the s. of one George Calvert and
a bro of Thomas Calvert of All Hallows in the
Wall, London, whose estate was administered 1637
by his widow Judith and his brother Samson. This
George Calvert may have been of the Cockerham
family in which the name George sometimes appears
(Cal. State Papers, Comm. for the Advance of
Maney, Vol. I ,p. 514; Year Books of Probates,
P.C.C., Vol.II, p. 142).
*Samson Calvert and his wife Mary immigrated to
Virginia where he died in 1658.
The identity of Gov. Charles Calvert of Maryland
(1688-1733/4) still remains a mystery and this
writer has found not the slightest suggestion as
to his origin. His mother, Countess Henrietta
Calvert, followed her s. to America and d. here
circa 1728 (Md. Hist. Mag., Vol. II, pp. 220,
321).
His aunt's death is recorded thus in the Register
of St. Ann's Church, Annaplois: " 8 Aug., 1722:
Madame Margaret Lazenby, aunt to our presetn
Governor, Charles Calvert, Esq." She was
presumably the mother of that Charles Calvert
Lazenby to whom land was granted in Maryland in
1701.
There were Lazenby's who survived her in
Maryland, who were probably her kinsfolk.
Charlotte Calvert Brerewood calls Gov. Charles "
our cousin the Captain" and he may conceivably
have been a Calvert cousin from the North
Country, who will be identified when the
Yorkshire family background or Sir George is
eventually clarified. There was a family of
gentry named Lazenby in Catterick Parish,
Yorkshire, close by the village of Kipling
(Victoria Youkshire, North Riding; Md. Hist.
mag., Vol.I pp. 289-90).
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http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/p/e/Vicki-K
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