♀Dennice Aparke

Dennice Aparke was a woman of Horsmonden, in Kent, where she and her husband Roberte Doggett brought six children to be christened between 1567 and 1579. She was the twelfth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006) by two separate lines of descent, both through her son Thomas Doggett (christened 1572/3).

Horsmonden

Roberte Doggett and Dennice Aparke are said to have married at Horsmonden on 20 July 1566. Their children Olyfe, Roberte, Phylepe, Thomas, Marye and Elizabethe were christened there between 1567 and 1579. Her parents are not known.

Lines of descent

Both lines run through her son Thomas, Thomas’s daughter Mary Doggett (christened 1600), her son James Lewis (1631–1713) and James’s daughter Sarah Lewis (1661–1732). They meet again in Wesley Blanchard (1844–1908), whose parents, Joseph Knapp Blanchard (1820–1885) and Elizabeth Trueworthy Blanchard (1825–1884), were both descended from Roberte Doggett and Dennice Aparke. From Wesley the descent to Nancy Jane Blanchard runs as one, through George Wesley Blanchard (1868–1939) and Kenneth Blanchard (1897–1975).

Notes

Sources

The marriage at Horsmonden on 20 July 1566, written Roberte Dogget and Dennice Aparke, and the christenings of the six children, each to a father written Roberte, are from an index of the English parish registers. A compiled genealogy, Dearborn’s Ancestors of David Richard Gergen and Anne Elizabeth Wilson, gives the same marriage.