John Ferrar (merchant)
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John Farrar the elder of London, Esquire[edit]
John Ferrar the elder of London (1544-1627) was a wealthy London Merchant, the first member of the Ferrar family to be granted the right to bear Coat pf Arms, which passed to his son Henry. [1]:50 These pedigrees were recorded in the Visitation of Surrey [2]:157-158 and Visitation of Hertford.[3]:58He would not be notable otherwise than he was granted this right, and his wealth financed the adventure or his 3rd Son Councillor William Farrars voyage to Virginia, enabled him to establish himself as a councillor and member of the House of Burgess,pay transport for persons to Virginia, as well as his place in the history of the Colony and the representative form of Government..[1]:13-15,28,49-50
John Ferrar father of William Farrar (settler)[edit]
John Ferrar, who was executor of his father William’s will in 1573, married Cecily Kelke on 24 August 1574. She was the daughter of William Kelke, mercer of London and granddaughter of Christopher Kelke of the manor of Barnetby, Lincolnshire and Great Kelk, Yorkshire..[4]:473
John Ferrar the Elder was a cousin of Nicholas Ferrar and his brother John Ferrar, deputy treasurer of the Virginia Company, Their common ancestor was Henry Ferror of Little Ewood, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire.
It was the wealth of John Ferrar that enabled him to endow his son William Farrar’s adventure to Virginia, and enabled him to pay passage for 40 persons from London to Virginia, for which he was posthumously granted a patent of 2,000 acres.[1]:14-15.28.51
The source of John Ferrars' wealth[edit]
From his father William Ferror (sic) John Ferrar inherited a number of messuages and tenements in what is now West Riding Yorkshire, United Kingdom [5]:53
He owned Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, which he left to his son Willliam, then in Virginia, who returned to England to claim and sell his inheritance in 1631.[6]:291
And he owned as well the Westwood Estate, formerly Westwood Hunting Lodge, County Surrey, UK, which was sold in 1643 .[7] .[8]
The Coat of Arms is described as Arms-Argent on a bend Engrailed Sable three horse-shoes of the field for the crest, on a wreath of the colours a horse-shoe Argent between two wings Or (heraldry).
The Arms and crest were exemplified under the hand of William Camden, Clarenceux, King of Arms, College of Arms to John Farrar of Croxton Armorial bearings granted in 1609 [1]:50
These Coat of Arms are quoted in the the Visitations of the King’s Herald for 1623 Surrey County and 1634 Hertfordshire County, England and [3]:58
Note: The name Ferrar is a derivation of Ferror, and is spelled variously in English records as Farrar, Ferrar, Farrer, Farrow, Farrowe, Fairer, Fareher, Farher, Fawher, Pharo, Farra see for instance the will of Henry Ferror of Halifax, Jun 25, 1548 and that of Henry Farher of Halifax 1542 Origin of Farrar name.[9]
Indication of variation in spelling of name[edit]
Will of Henry Ferror of Halifax 1548[10]:40
Will of Henry Fareher of Halifax 1542 [11]:136
Death and Will of John Ferrar[edit]
John Ferrer the elder of London, Esquire of Aldermanbury Parish in his very long will date 14 November 1627, proved 28 May 1628 by his son Henry, gave to Henry, his eldest son many properties in West Yorkshire including Greater Ewood and Little Ewood, to his son John 20 Nobles (a Gold coin), he had previously conveyed other properties, to his son Humphrey other properties in West Yorkshire and to his son William his third son:
“All those messauges, lands, etc., in Hoddesden, Bloxbourtne and Amwell or elsewhere in the countie of Hertford theretofore….conveyed to Henry and John Farrer (which they were to relinquish to William”
(Public Record Office, Close Roll C54/2715) [12][13]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Holmes, Alvahn (1972). The Farrar's Island family and its English ancestry. Gateway Press. Retrieved 23 November 2018. Search this book on
- ↑ The Visitations of the County of Surrey: 1530, 1572, 1623. London: Ye Wardour Press. 1899. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The visitations of Hertfordshire, 1572 and 1634. London. 1886. Search this book on
- ↑ Foster, Joseph (1887). London Marriages 1521-1869. Bernard Quaritch. Search this book on
- ↑ Farrer of Abinger, Lord (1936). Farrer(and some variants) Wills and Administrations. Dorking [Surrey]: Tanner and Son. Search this book on
- ↑ McCartney, Martha W. (2007). Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635. ISBN 9780806317748. Search this book on
- ↑ "Westwood Estate".
- ↑ Farrer, Lord (1936). Farrer and some variants Wills and Administrations. Dorking [Surrey]: Tanner and Son. Search this book on
- ↑ "Origin of Farrar Name".
- ↑ Will of Henry Ferror of Halifax, 1548. [Halifax] Privately printed for the Editors. 1904. Search this book on
- ↑ (England), York (1904). "Will of Henry Fareher of Halifax".
- ↑ Bruce, Philip Alexander; Stanard, William Glover (1914). "Vol 22, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography".
- ↑ Farrer of Abinger, Lord Thomas (1936). "Farrer (and some variants) Wills and Administrations". Archive.org. Retrieved Jul 20, 2019.
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