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Buckminster Fuller

Author, Architect, and Inventor

John Drake

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Buckminster Fuller — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 904 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1585 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Aug 1659 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
  • 18 Aug 1659 
  • Burial Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lettice Shakespeare
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Jun 1615 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Drake

  Ester Drake

  Job Drake (Ahnentafel No:452 )

  Enock Drake

  • Notes: 

  • of Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire, England

    This John Drake is not the same as that mentioned in the will of Francis Drake of Esher, County Surrey, England dated 1633. That John Drake was a cousin of Francis and son of William Drake of Wiscombe Park.

• Additional marriages for John Drake

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 9 Jan 1624
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire, England

• Sources for John Drake

  • ¹ England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FHL No 4291976, Image 59, Marriage record for John Drak and Lettes Schaxper.
  • ² England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FHL No 4291976, Image 21, Baptism for son John Drake.
  • ³ England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FHL No 4291976, Image 24, Baptism for daughter Elizabeth Drake.
  • ⁴ England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FHL No 4291976, Image 22, Baptism for daughter Ester Drake.
  • ⁵ England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FHL No 4291976, Image 22, Baptism for son Job Drake.
  • ⁶ England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FHL No 4291976, Image 23, Baptism for son Enock Drake.
  • ⁷ England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FHL No 4291976, Image 76, Burial record for spouse Lettice Drake.
  • ⁸ England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FHL No 4291976, Image 27, Baptism record for daughter Mary Drake.
  • ⁹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1851, Vol. 5, p. 167.
  • ¹⁰ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 24.
  • ¹¹ The American Genealogist, 1988, Vol. 63, pp. 193-206.
  • ¹² The American Genealogist, 1990, Vol. 65, pp. 87-88.
  • ¹³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 581.
  • ¹⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 2051.
  • ¹⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 98.
  • ¹⁶ Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Vol. 1, Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, Book and Job Printer (1893), 264.
  • ¹⁷ Gay, Frank B., The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor, Connecticut, Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Company (1933), 1-3.
  • ¹⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 141.
  • ¹⁹ Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 Vols., Hillburn, NY: Privately Printed (1939), Vol. 1, p. 447.