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The following is an assortment of data regarding our Calvert connection, via Jesse Calvert Hamrick's mother, Mariah Adams.....
The Calvert/Hamrick Genealogy Connection
Having recently discovered my connection to the Maryland Calvert Family was an exciting discovery for my neverending quest
for interesting and additional family history.
One of my many 10th Great Grandfather's is Sir George Calvert, Knight, 1st Lord Baltimore and Maryland colonizer.
George was the son of Leonard and Alicia (de Crossland ) Calvert and George was born around 1580 in Kiplin Hall, Bolton-on-Swale.
At 14 he was at Oxford this was in 1594 and he graduated in 1597. He became secretary to a leading gentleman in English government,
Robert Cecil. With Robert as a mentor and with encouragement from King James 1, George attained a seat in Parliament, became
a member of Privy Council, and became secretary of state. This much responsibility brought obvious difficulties however, and
it became necessary for him to defend James 1's unpopular Continental diplomacy. He also actively examined Irish grievances
and acquired knighthood in 1617. He converted to Catholicism, and resigned as secretary of state. As a reward for his services
the King titled him Baron Baltimore, and he became the First Lord Baltimore.
Baron Baltimore had been interested in the American colonies for years and had invested in the Virginia Company, located
in Jamestown. He was a member of the Council for New England. In 1623 he obtained a charter from to be a founder of a new
private colony in Newfoundland, and had feudal control over this land, a medieval authority. This allowed him to award titles
of nobility, in his new colony, which he called Avalon. In 1627 he visited Avalon and his wife, Anne Mynne, daughter of George
Mynne, Esquire of Herfordshire, went on to Virginia, later her ship was lost at sea. Baron Baltimore, George Calvert found
Newfoundland to be a struggling colony and he decided to invest further in Virginia, he was not well received in Virginia
and applied for a land grant for an area north of Virginia and he received the land grant for Maryland via his son Cecilius
Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore because George had died. Maryland was named after the new King's wife, Henrietta Maria, Maryland
was settled by the Calvert's in 1634 by Cecilius' brother Leonard Calvert who became one of the first settlers of Maryland.
Leonard Calvert is my 9th great grandfather.
The Maryland Charter.... Charter.
For a photo of a young Cecilius go to:
Cecilius Calvert.
Charles Calvert, son of Cecilius can be found at:
Charles
Alot about Calvert Royalty Lines:
Royal Ancestry
For information and a photo of Leonard Calvert, Maryland's first Governor please go here:
Leonard Calvert
For the lineage line of the Calvert/Hamrick families please go to:
Calvert/Hamrick Lineage Connection.
A great site to browse for all family historian's:
Delaware Genealogical Society
| Replica of ship 'The Ark" circa 1634 |
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| Settelers arrived aboard, the Ark and the Dove |
| In Living History Museum...... |
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| "The Calvert House" |
The Ark is docked at St. Mary's City, Maryland near where the Calvert's first arrived in the colonies in 1634, when I
visited I enjoyed the many Calvert related exhibitions, inclucing the ship, remnants of the original Calvert house and museums
in the surrounding area.
George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, was the son of Leonard and Alicia (de Crossland ) Calvert
and George was born around 1580 in Kiplin Hall, Bolton-on-Swale.
At 14 he was at Oxford this was in 1594 and he graduated in 1597. He became secretary to a
leading gentleman in English government, Robert Cecil. With Robert as a mentor and with encouragement from King James 1, George
attained a seat in Parliament, became a member of Privy Council, and became secretary of state.
This much responsibility brought obvious difficulties however, and it became necessary
for him to defend James 1's unpopular Continental diplomacy. He also actively examined Irish grievances and acquired knighthood
in 1617. He converted to Catholicism, and resigned as secretary of state. As a reward for his services the King titled him
Baron Baltimore, and he became the First Lord Baltimore.
Baron Baltimore had been interested in the American colonies for years and had invested
in the Virginia Company, located in Jamestown. He was a member of the Council for New England.
In 1623 he obtained a charter from to be a founder of a new private colony in Newfoundland,
and had feudal control over this land, a medieval authority. This allowed him to award titles of nobility, in his new colony,
which he called Avalon. In 1627 he visited Avalon and his probable wife, Anne Mynne, daughter of George Mynne, Esquire of
Herfordshire, went on to Virginia, later her ship was lost at sea.
Baron Baltimore, George Calvert found Newfoundland to be a struggling colony and he decided
to invest further in Virginia, he was not well received in Virginia and applied for a land grant for an area north of Virginia
and he received the land grant for Maryland, his plantation essentially, via his son Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
because George had died.
Maryland was named after the new King's wife, Henrietta Maria, 'Mary Land', and was settled
in 1634 by Cecilius' brother Leonard Calvert who the leader and eventually governor of the first settlers of Maryland. Leonard
Calvert is my 9th great grandfather.
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| Model of the first landing of settlers, lead by Leonard Calvert. |
| Maryland Crabs |
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| I ate 13 of them! Oh my GOODNESS! |
Calvert Royal Ancestry
Here are three Calvert Royalty Lines...........
1. Edward III, King of England, d. 1377 m. Philippa of Hainault
2. John of Gaunt,
Duke of Lancaster m. Catherine Roet
3. Joan Beaufort m. Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmoreland
4. Richard
Neville, 1st Earl of Salisbury, m. Alice Montagu
5. Catherine Neville, m. William Bonville, Baron Harington and
Bonville
6. Cecily Bonville, Baroness Harington and Bonville, m. Thomas
Grey, 1st Marquess of
Dorset
7. Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset m. Margaret Wotton
8. Anne Grey m. Sir Henry Willoughby
9. Margaret Willoughby m. Sir Matthew Arundell. Matthew was son of
Sir Thomas Arundell and Margaret Howard.
Sir Thomas Arundell was
son of Sir John Arundell and Eleanor Grey. Eleanor Grey was
daughter of
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset and Cecily
Bonville above, making Margaret Willoughby and Matthew
Arundell
cousins
10. Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour m. Anne Philipson
11. Hon.
Anne Arundell m. Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore,
proprietor of Maryland
12. Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron
Baltimore (1637-1715), colonial gov.
of MD, m. (2) Mrs. Jane Lowe Sewall of MD
13. Benedict Leonard Calvert,
4th Baron Baltimore, proprietor of MD.
Now, #6 above, Cecily Bonville and Thomas Grey had a daughter, Dorothy
Grey. she married William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy. They had a
daughter, Mary Blount, who married Sir
Robert Dennis. Mary is 8
generations from Edward:
8. Mary Blount m. Sir Robert Dennis
9. Anne Dennis m. sir John Chichester
10. Sir Robert Chichester m. Ursula Hill
11. Sir John Chichester m.
Mary Colley
12. Sir Arthur Chichester m. Elizabeth Drewe
13. Anne Chichester m. Francis Fulford
14.
Francis Fulford m. Ellen Edgcombe
15. Mary Fulford of NY m. Joseph Lovecraft
16. George Lovecraft m. Helen
Allgood
17. Winfield Scott Lovecraft m. Sarah Susan Phillips
18. Howard Phillips (H.P.) Lovecraft, science
fiction writer (b. 1890)
Here's another Calvert Line:
1. Henry I, King of England, d. 1135 (father was
Wm Conqueror) m.
Matilda of Scotland
2. (illegitimate by Sybil Corbet) Reginald FitzRoy or de Mortain,
Earl of Cornwall, m. Mabel FitzWilliam
3. Maud FitzReginald m. Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, great-
great-grandson of Henry I, King of France d. 1060
4. Maud de Beaumont m. William de Vernon, 5th Earl of Devon
5. Mary de Vernon m. Sir Robert Courtenay
6. Sir John Courtenay m. Isabel de Vere
7. Sir Hugh Courtenay
m. Eleanor le Despencer
8. Eleanor Courtenay m. Henry Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Codnor
9. Richard Grey, 2nd
Baron Grey of Codnor m. Joan FitzPayn
10. Robert FitzPayn (formerly Grey), Baron FitzPayn m. Elizabeth
de Brian
11. Isabel FitzPayn m. Richard Poynings, 3rd Baron Poynings
12. Joan Poynings m. Sir Richard Camoys
13. Eleanor Camoys m. Sir Roger Lewknor, son of Sir Thomas Lewknor
14. Elizabeth Lewknor m. John Wroth
15. Thomas Wroth m. Joan Newdigate
16. Robert Wroth m. Jane Hawte
17. Sir Thomas Wroth m. Mary Rich
18. Elizabeth Wroth m. George Mynne
19. Anne Mynne m. George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (c. 1578-1632)
promoter of MD
20. Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, m. Hon. Anne Arundell
Another Calvert Line:
1. Charles II, King of England, d. 1685 m. Catherine of
Braganza
2. (illegitimate by Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland)
Charlotte Fitzroy m. Edward Henry
Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield
3. Lady Charlotte Lee m. (1) Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron
Baltimore
4. Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, colonial gov. of MD m.
Mary Janssen
5. Hon. Caroline Calvert
m. Sir Robert Eden (1741-1784), colonial
gov. of MD.
#4 charles calvert also had an illegitimate
son:
5. (illegitimate by ???) Benedict "Swingate" Calvert m. Elizabeth
Calvert, dau. of Charles
Calvert alias Lazenby alias Butler,
colonial gov of MD and Rebecca Gerard. Among the children of
Benedict and Elizabeth, Eleanor Calvert married firstly John
Parke Custis, stepson of George Washington, and
son of Daniel
Parke Custis and Martha Dandridge. According to an article in
the New England
Hist. Gen. Reg., the mother of Benedict "Swingate"
Calvert was Melusina de Schulenberg, Countess of Walsingham
and
illegitimate daughter of George I, King of Great Britain d. 1727
and Ermengarde Melusina de Schulenberg,
duchess of Kendal.
William the Conqueror
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