A Compendium of Quaker (Nordic) Calverts: (Recognitons & Forward - Part 1)

A Compendium of the Quaker (Nordic) Calvert’s

 

Whose origin is found at Morsham Near Guisbrough, Yorkshire

 

 

(A genealogical and Historical View)

Compiled by David Edwin Bell

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            1610 Map of Yorkshire, a copper engraving by William Hole

 David Bell

RECOGNITION

Contributors: Jim Ray, Jim Calvert whose intent care and detailed research began the effort of Calvert Genealogy to examine and trace the Quaker Calvert’s. Much credit is deserved by Jim Ray (now deceased) and it is to him that I wish to add this special recognition. These are just a few of the many Calvert’s who contributed tons of information and assistance. More are recognized below.

Lynn Howser(descendant of John Irving Calvert), Sylvia Sine Whitaker(related in many different family ancestries but a wonderful researcher who helped me while on the ground in Greene Co PA, and Wetzel, Marshall, Tyler and Mon Counties WV).

Daphne Toomey(now deceased),Barbara Joseph(Dorthey Lee Calvert Bell, my mother worked a lot with Barbara).

Kathleen Calvert Skinner, Mary Pearl sisters of Arthur), Virginia Taylor Ballard, Eloise Baker, and so many others working jointly or contributing research, material and records.

Especial thank to Jim Ray and Jim Calvert for their diligence in digging through count, court and genealogy records from which this work has been organized and built. Jim Ray is now deceased. He was a very important member of the Calvert Research and DNA project Descended from Robert Calvert as well as the Ray’s of county Armagh. His focus, dedication and indefatigable work led to many magnificent discoveries and he was an important instigator of starting the Calvert Surname Project at Family Tree, DNA.

Other Recognitions: Dorthey Lee Calvert Bell, my mother, who encouraged my taking over the research and was the instigator of travels to WV, PA and TN early in her own genealogical meanderings. We first made a “genealogy” trip in 1969 to Wetzel County, WV. To get a view of that trip see the article: “Traipsing on the Uncut Hair of Tombs”. I took the research over in 2000 after my father passed away and began in earnest in 2001.

Unfortunate tragedy struck my family when in May 22, 2011 A tornadic Storm struck Joplin. Dorthey lost her life in this tragic storm. She was b 16 October, 1922, daughter of Arthur Clay Calvert and his fourth wife, “Vesta” Amanda Silvesta Rose.

Edwin Bell, my father who was dragged along by Dorthey all over the country doing on the ground Genealogical and historical research for perhaps 15 years While Dad did research on the Bells at the same time, Dragging Dorthey to Mooers, Clinton County, NY and up into Quebec. When my father became ill they stopped research. This was 1997. Ed passed away 29 Sep 2000. The next year I began taking over the research. This is a work then, dedicated to my parents.

Virginia Taylor Ballard, welcomed me into their home on Fairview Ridge, Wetzel County WV. She and her husband, Anglo Ballard, took me to every possible site in four West Virginia Counties, and pointed the way to other locales in WV, OH and finally Greene and Washington Counties, PA.

Laree McDaniel Lee who mentored my budding “genealogy” experience, guiding me over hurdles, aiding in research and providing a sounding board for particular related and unrelated rants and raves. She still is tops in reseach for Calvert Genealogy(all family lines) and is admin for Calvert Genealogy at Facebook, manages the website and blog as well as handling co-admin duty for the Surname Project at Family Tree DNA.

Lynn Hauser who provided information on the John Irving Calvert lineage – he was the younger brother of my ancestor of Tyler Co VA (later Wetzel Co, WV), Albert Gallatin Calvert. The family Cemetery is just off Macedonia Church Road in Wetzel County. Some detail of finding that Cemetery is documented for Lynn in my Article on Cemetery research(Uncut Hair of Tombs).

Lynn LeFlore who did significant work in arranging photos, labels and material.

Gloria Wertz who provided information on the descent of Ezekiel Calvert, younger brother of my ancestor Thomas both sons of Isaac Calvert.

I want to add a very special thanks to Sylvia Whitaker who worked with me for three years off and on and was the person who made the discovery of records which proved 4 generations of Calvert’s going back to Isaac Calvert of Chester and Greene Co PA. I regard Sylvia as a superb researcher and my “mentor” as well.

There are many other contributors who dedicated their time and energy and they are too numerous to mention. If I leave them out, I will hurt feelings but if I fail to mention one of the many who deserve more credit than myself, I will hurt feelings.

Thank you, all of you and this goes for those too numerous to include specifically. You are the best!

David Bell – Rockport, TX - 10 July 2020

FORWARD

The Immigration of the Irish Quaker Calverts to Ulster Plantation

The first record of the Armagh Quaker Calverts is John Calvert, born at Moore Soome ("neere Gisborough") Yorkshire, England, as recorded in Lurgan register transcripts of the Society of Friends in a record of the marriage of his son,Thomas Calvert. Buckey claims a birth date of 1578/9, and a migration to County Armagh, Ulster Province, Ireland in 1617. Myers claims that same year for his migration.(1) According to Lewis' Topographical Dictionary published in 1831, Great Moorsham was a township in the parish of Skelton, East Division of Langbaurgh 6 miles from Guisbrough, containing 338 inhabitants(circa 1830).

Guisbrough Priory Ruin Today -- Robert de Brus did more than simply provide and money for the new priory; he named his brother William as its first prior. William's successor was Prior Cuthbert (1145-1154). 

The occasion for the presence of our Calverts in Ulster Province of Ireland was the forced removal of the native Irish tenants from their lands, and the subsequent plantation(2) of these lands by Scottish and English colonists. Henry VIII and his daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, had initiated this policy in the latter part of the 16th century, their purpose to tighten the English hold on Catholic Ireland, mindful of the defense of the newly Protestant state of England against a possible Irish linkage to France, Spain, and other Catholic states . But "plantations" began in earnest in the reign of the Stuart king, James I of England (ca. 1609), facilitated by the "flight of the Irish Earls" who left the northern Irish leaderless.

Not unsurprisingly, acts of retaliation by the native Irish followed, mostly exaggerated, but one most bloody in 1641. In the meanwhile, a strong divergence arose between the English crown and the English Parliament, mainly on religious grounds, which ended with the beheading of Charles I, son of James, and the anointing of Oliver Cromwell as "Lord protector of the realm." Cromwell's genocidal policies ended the Irish retaliation during the 1650's; with the Irish further removed by eviction, exile, or execution.

Specifics for John Calvert coming to Ireland with his family before 1617 are not yet known, nor do we know what religion they then professed. We know that John married a Grace [--?--], 1599/1600, thus John would have been born before 1580 and hence a birth date of c 1580 is used by this author. We know that John's son, Thomas, was born in 1617 at County Armagh due to Quaker Church records. 

 

Because of such records we also know that John Calvert must have been alive in 1654/55 and after because he is buried at the Quaker Burying grounds. John then, either converted or was allowed to be buried in this cemetery having a wife who was Quaker. Due to the strict rules of the faith it is believed that John thus converted to the Quaker faith and that he died after 1654-1655 since the Quakers became established in Ireland at this time frame hence, From the Quaker records we can also establish that John's family became converts to the Quaker faith in the latter part of the century, probably between the early dates of foundation of the faith and before 1670. This religion, first preached by George Fox in England in the late 1640's, had by 1654 spread all about England and across to Ireland to where the first meeting of the Society of Friends was held at Lurgan, Co. Armagh in 1654. Thus John Calvert was b circa 1580(probably shortly before) and died after 1654/55.

Since the strong growth of Quakerism that followed in the next two decades probably brought our Calverts into the fold. Life for the Quakers and the Scottish Presbyterians was difficult during this period. Aside from the earlier native Irish raids, they were subject to a ruling class who belonged to the Church of England, and who oppressed not only the native Irish, but also those of other religions. Among other things, they demanded and took excessive tithes to maintain their own church, with harsh penalties for those not conforming. A hoped for cessation of the oppression with the return of the Stuarts (Charles II) to the Crown in 1670 did not occur, and a result was the 17th and 18th century migrations of Ulster Scots and our own Quakers to the colonies in America.. Quakers were granted land in William Penn's colony of Pennsylvania which at that time included the lower three counties that became colonial Delaware, the site of our Calvert's first home in America.

Myers provides an interesting view of events as they relate to the settlement of Quakers into the Colonies and the relationship between the Hollingsworths and Calverts which took a turn for the worse as identified in the following recording of the Monthly Meeting at

Chester where notice is made of a difference between John Calvert(Grandson of John Calvert c 1580 and Thomas Hollingsworth who was the stepson of Ann Calvert, daughter of Thomas Calvert of Lurgan who was Valentine Hollingsworth's second wife. (3)

This disagreement was over land division between the families in Upper Providence. Valentine Hollingsworth, son of Henry, of Belleniskcrannel, Parish Segoe, Co Armagh, Ireland, and Catharine born about the 6th month of 1632 at Balleniskcrannel. Valentine Hollingsworth married in the 4th Month, seventh day of 1655, Ann Ree, dau of Nicholas Ree of Tanderagee, Co Armagh. Ann was born around 1628, at Tanderagee, and d 2m 1, 1671. He then married a second time 4m 12, 1572, to Ann Calvert, dau of Thomas Calvert of Dromgora(h), Parish Segoe, Co Armagh, and Jane his wife.(4)

(1). Albert Cook Meyers. Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, With their Early History in Ireland. Swathmore, 1902, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994.

(2) Plantation as used here relates to the huge tract of land of Northern Ireland. The term plantation is used to define the settlement of the Colony if you will, with defense again the incursions of the unruly native Celtic peoples. Plantations or grants were made and the wilds outside of Dublin to the West and North was accomplished and the resulting turmoil of the Irish people related to governance and religious differences was met due to this settlement and various other grants, such as that to George Calvert which he was knighted by King James and granted lands for Baltimore in Ireland - deb.

(3). J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope. History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881. In a brief biography of Valentine Hollingsworth, this source lists his first wife as "Catherine Cornish, daughter of Henry Cornish, high sheriff of London, who was unjustly executed during the reign of James II. It is noteworthy that Cahterine has died and Valentine remarries Ann Calvert. Of even greater import this first marriage illustrates the dangerous times of the era where aligned politics and religion and the import of these Quakers and their heritage is demonstrated. "

(4) Marriage book of the Quaker Monthly Meeting at Lurgan, County Armagh Ireland.

In 1687, Henry Hollingsworth, he himself having immigrated to the new world, returned to Ireland and married a 2nd time, on the 8 mo 22 day of 1688, Lydia Atkinson who was born and lived in the Parish of Segoe, County Armagh. They returned to New Castle now Delware. Valentine had arrived in the Colonies and settled on a a large plantation of nearly 1000 acres near the present city of Wilmington in Delaware. This Planation was named "New Worke" and here was held the Newark Monthly Meeting of the Quakers and here was located the burying ground for this Quaker group and it is also here that Valentine Hollingsworth is interred. You can see in this the working of etymology and the Americanization and modernization of language was performed on simpling the title of a land, the name of a meeting, etc, where "New Worke" emerges as Newark. (1)

Note to the reader: From time to time, new records are found. When they are added, they will be Highlighted in red script-deb.

Fifteen Generations of Ancestry from John of Yorkshire

For myself and for other family members, here I provide 15 generations of Calverts:

I have researched most of these family lines. William, #1 IS NOT PROVEN. John, Gen. 2 is our ancestry using primary records, DNA, secondary records etc. I need the will of William. Thomas, and others in Yorks of the right era to be John’s father. I actually have more descents to add to this – it is what I can recall off the top of my head and a few notes in front of me.

David

1 William Calvert 1554 + Elizabeth {–-?--] THIS IS PROPOSED not Proven as Generation 1.
...2 John Calvert c1580 + Grace [–-?--]
.....3 Thomas Calvert 1710 + Jane Glasford
.........4 John Calvert 1648 + Judith Stamper 

…............5 Joshua Calvert 1680 Armagh m Deborah Harlan

                   (To #6 Thomas b 1710 m Sarah Williamson)

             5 John Calvert 1689 PA m Jane McMahan

….............6 Thomas Calvert(1710 m Sarah Williamson(Chester)

….............6 Joshua Calvert c1715 (*Current Research)

…...............7 Isaac Calvert 1742 m Eliz. Gart

                                     m2 Fanny Bulet

…...............7 William Calvert b ? moved to Mt Holly NJ

     …...............7 Joshua Calvert (*current research)

     …...............7 Daniel Calvert Patriot (current research/DAR)

…...............  8 John Calvert 1737 m Widow Jane Mercer

     ….................8 Thomas Calvert 1769 m Anna Ewing m2 Johann
                         Margaret Lemmons
     ….................8 Job Calvert m Chloe Binn     

     ….................8 Isaac Calvert Jr m ?             

     ….................8 Ezekiel Calvert b 1773 m Rhoda Debolt

     ….................8 John Calvert m ? removed to Guernsey Co, 
                        OH(many descendants removed to Tulsa OK area

     ….................8 Francis Calvert m ? removed to Guernsey Co.

     ….................8, 8, 8, three daughters all traced:                                         Margaret, Elizabeth and Mary Ann

     ….................8 Sarah Hannah b 1785 m George Dye

    …................. 8 Robert Calvert b 1774 m Alice(both d young

                        Hiram found Hiramsburg OH to NE, Jabez,                             lost in history, Isaac moved to Beaver                               PA and Reason(Rezin) move to Cass Co Mo, 
                        Deepwater twp near my father's farm which   
                        known as Amerugia in Civil War order #11)
     .....................9 Thomas 1808 m Elizabeth Johnson

     …........................10 Albert G. b 1830 m Mary Ann Cain

     …............................11 John Ewing 1856 m Martha 
                                     Lemasters

     …............................12 Arthur Clay m4 Vesta Rose

     …............................... 13 Sam Calvert 1916 m Esther 
                                         Lowen

     …................................   14 Thomas Calvert m Rosalee 

 

A. Tommy I knew as Sailor boy Tommy. He was a "hero" of mine when I was young and I really liked him as I knew him late in life. The male children of Thomas would comprise the 15^th generation of Calverts. My Uncle Sam, I recall with great fondness. He would rise from a meal at my grandparents and would frequently say to his mother(Vesta Calvert), “Them's good groceries, Mom”. My mother was aunt to Thomas, sister of Sam. Other siblings of Tommy I want to note are Deborah and Beki Calvert.