William Drake

Generation 14 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Anna Frances Brown ← Isaac Horace Brown ← George Ellison Brown ← John Brown ← Isaiah Brown ← John Brown ← John Brown ← Sarah Barsham ← Anabel Smith “Bland” ← Isabel Drake

In brief

Born about 1550 in Elmstead Parish, Essex, England. He married October 12, 1578, in Halstead, Essex, England. He died about November 1616 near Elmstead, Essex, England in Elmstead Parish, Essex, England.

Family

Spouse

Joan Merrylls

m. 1578

Children

Isabel Drake · in this line
b. c. 1579
d. Abt. October 1639 near Watertown, Massachusetts
Robert Drake
b. Abt. July 1581 near Halstead, Essex, England
d. January 14, 1667[1668], in Hampton, New Hampshire
Thomas Drake
b. Abt. December 1582 near Halstead, Essex, England
m. Margery ____
Joshua Drake
b. Abt. November 1584 near Halstead, Essex, England
Joseph Drake
m. Rebecca Fairchild in 1610 at St. Botolph’s, Colchester, England
Joan Drake
m. Francis Cocke
Alice Drake
Ellen Drake
Elizabeth Drake

Sources (2)

Robert Charles Anderson, “John Smith of Watertown, Massachusetts,” The American Genealogist 61 (January/April 1985): 18-31; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12790/18/144273857 : accessed 24 August 2026).
Alice Smith Thompson, The Drake Family of New Hampshire (Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1962); image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/drakefamilyofnew00thom : accessed 24 August 2026).