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| Kirke Family 16th-17th Century | ||||||||||||||||||
| a.k.a. Kerth, Kertk, Querque, Guer | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 Sons were born to: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gervase (Jarvis) Kirke, Derbyshire a London merchant, | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Elizabeth Gowding (Goudon) who may have been a daughter of the English merchant established in Dieppe. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Their Sons were: David, Lewis, Thomas, John, and James (aka Jarvis) |
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| DAVID KIRKE was the Eldest child, born in 1597, Dieppe and he died in 1654 near London). When war between England and France erupted in 1627, David led an expedition with 3 ships to bring some inhabitants to Port Royal for the colony of Sir William Alexander. Though he was planning to "take" New France that year and he prevented the French ships to bring the foodstuffs expected by the French colony, he changed his mind after he successfully took the 4 French ships from Admiral Roquemont de Brison, after a brief squirmish. |
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| The Company of Adventures to Canada was created and in March 1629, a second fleet of 6 ships and 3 "pinasses" left Gravesend with Jacques Michel, a French desertor who served as pilot on the St.Lawrence Gulf. He again succeeded in taking the French fleet commanded by Emery de Caen who was bringing news of the new peace Treaty signed at Suze and also some much needed food for the starving colony. David Kirke took Tadoussac where Nicholas Marsolet was residing and he sent his brothers Lewis and Thomas to Quebec, to take "Canida". Champlain and his colony, starving, surrendered on July 19 1629. Eventually, when the dowry of Henriette de France, Sister to the French King (LOUIS XIII) was paid to her new husband, the King of England (Charles 1st) then, New France was given back to France, in 1632, by the Treaty of St-Germain-en-Laye. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Later David became Governor of NewFoundland. His brother John's daughter, Mary, would marry the famous Radisson. |
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| STORY OF THE KIRKE's (1628-29) "Taking New-France" will be posted here - Danielle |
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