♂Roberte Doggett

Roberte Doggett was a man of Horsmonden, in Kent, where he and his wife Dennice Aparke brought six children to be christened between 1567 and 1579. He was the twelfth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006) by two separate lines of descent, both through his 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. Roberte is said to have been buried at Horsmonden on 14 May 1604.

Lines of descent

Both lines run through his 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. The burial date is from a compiled genealogy, Dearborn’s Ancestors of David Richard Gergen and Anne Elizabeth Wilson, which writes him Robert Doggett and gives the same marriage.

A second Roberte

The same parish index has a Roberte Doggett marrying Margerete Henburye at Horsmonden on 12 May 1594, with children christened in 1595 and 1599. That was most likely his son Roberte, christened in 1568, not a second marriage of his own.