Person:Joan Jordan (4)

Joan Jordan's Marital Career

"A … significant record is the marriage at All Hallows, Bread Street, London, on 17 Oct. 1610, of one Mr. Edmonde Sheafe of Canterbury, gent., to Joane Lake of Shoram, Wydowe, in the same county. The date is exactly suitable for the marriage of our Edmund Sheafe to Joan (Jordan) Kitchell, who … probably married a second time and had one son after the death of John Kitchell in 1602. If this is the marriage of our Edmund Sheafe, as it well may be, Joan's second husband was named Lake. At Hayes, Kent, Thomas son of Richard Lake was baptized 13 Mar. 1607/8. This may refer to the son and second husband of Joan (Jordan) Kitchell who lived in Hayes at least until her first husband's death."^[1]

Alexander Weller (which one?) m. at Cranbrook 14 Aug. 1620 Joan Lake, and this couple are evidently the Alexander and Joan Weller to whom reference is made in Donald Lines Jacobus, 'The Kitchell, Sheafe and Ruck Connections in England, ante, vol. 15, pp. 72, 72, 77, 80.

Note by Donald L. Jacobus: The last discovery confirms the belief expressed in my article that the Joan Lake who married Edmund Sheafe on 17 Oct. 1610 was his third wife and identical with Joan (Jordan) Kitchell, which would mean that she had an interim husband named Lake. Her four Kitchell children were Robert the emigrant, Frances who m. George Nash, Elizabeth who m. Thomas Ruck (also emigrants), and Joan. Since the three witnesses of Edmund Sheafe's will were George Nash, Thomas Ruck and Alexander Weller, of whom the first two were husbands of step-daughters, it was therefore surmised that Weller might be husband of Joan Kitchell. It now seems probable that she died, but that Weller's wife Joan Lake was daughter of Joan (Jordan) Kitchell by her second (Lake husband). Probably there was also a Lake son, to account for the five children mentioned.^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Kitchell, Sheafe and Ruck Connections in England. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Oct 1938)
   (at 15:72-73).
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Coddington, John Insley. Weller Notes. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Oct 1950; Jan, Jul 1951)
   (at 27:192).
3. ↑ Talcott, Alvan. Chittenden family : William Chittenden of Guilford, Conn., and his descendants. (unknown: unknown, 1883)
   12.

   Joanna Sheaffe, widow of Dr. Edmund Sheaffe, emigrated with the family from England and died in Guilford, August 1, 1659.