Historical Biographies!

Origin & Ancestry

Medieval Foundations

• Generation 1: Ralph St. John (1036-1122) & Emma de Lacy, of Stanton-St. John
• Generation 2: John St. John (1095-1149) & Hawisia Plugenet, of Headington
• Generation 3: Thomas St. John (1121-1176)
• Generation 4: Roger St. John (1165-1214) & Cecily de Lucy, of Lageham
• Generation 5: John I St. John (1196-1230) & Emma Harcourt, of Ashleigh
• Generation 6: John II St. John (1222-1308) & Petronilla de Clare, of Instow
• Generation 7: John III St. John (1263-aft. 1316) & Isabella de Courtney, of Tapley
• Generation 8: Alexander St. John (1286-1345) & ____ Arundel
• Generation 9: Oliver St. John (1320-1373) & Elizabeth de Luccombe
• Generation 10: John I St. John (1339-1374) & Elizabeth de la Bere (1), of Weobley Castle
• Generation 11: John II St. John (1363-1428) Lucy Basset, of Highlight
• Generation 12: Alexander St. John (1396-1480) & Johanna Craddock

Tudor Transition

• Generation 13: William St. John () &
• Generation 14: Oliver St. John
• Generation 15: William St. John & Jane Mathew (1)
• Generation 16: Christopher St. John (1547-1616) & Elizabeth Bawdrip, of Odyn's Fee

Colonial Period  

Tudor Conflicts & Irish Campaigns (1570s-1656)

• The St. Johns in Ireland: Nine Years’ War (1594–1603) and Aftermath

The Virginia Company

• Generation 17: Colonial Adventurers
• Jamestown & The Virginia Company of London
• First Africans brought to Jamestown
• Popham Colony & The Virginia Company of Plymouth
• Disaster in the Atlantic: Thomas St. John taken Captive by the Spanish
• England's Forgotten African Colony (1618) and Sir William St. John's Governorship
• Tragedy in the Caribbean: Nicholas & Alexander St. John on St. Lucia (1605)

Puritan Migration & New England

• St. Johns of the Massachussetts Bay Colony
• Founding of the Connecticut Colony