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

Born

Abt. 1550 · Elmstead Parish, Essex, England

Died

Abt. November 1616 near Elmstead, Essex, England · Elmstead Parish, Essex, England

Married

October 12, 1578, in Halstead, Essex, England

Migration

not recorded

Family

Child in this line

Isabel Drake

Children

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

Siblings

In brief

Born Abt in Elmstead Parish, Essex, England. He married October 12, 1578, in Halstead, Essex, England and worked as husbandman. He died Abt in Elmstead Parish, Essex, England.

At a glance

Work

Husbandman

Lived

Elmstead Parish, Essex, England

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).