Jane Martiau

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Nicholas Martiau, born 1591 in France, will dated 1 March 1656, proved 1657 in VA.

Martieau’s French wife and children probably did not survive the “seasoning period”

He married 2nd, in 1625 Jane Berkeley, widow of Edward Berkeley.

In 1639 he obtained a patent for land at Yorktown due him on account of importing himself, Nicholas Marlier, wife Jane, Michlas, his son, Elizabeth Marlier, his daughter, and Jane Berkeley her daughter and several others “the first year to Chiskiack

Jane (Unknown) (Berkeley) Martiau died before 1640, and according to Stoudt, found in the County Court Records is the subsequent marriage of Nicholas to Isabella Beech, who is not mentioned in his will, so also must have predeceased him.

Children:

• Jane Berkeley, and after 1625
• A Martiau son died young
• Sarah Martiau, married William Fuller
• Mary Martiau, married John Scarsbrook
• Elizabeth Martiau, married George Reade .

origins

Name seen as Elizabeth Jane Page with no supporting evidence.

Nothing is know of the ancestry of Nicolas Martiau's wife, who was the widow Jane Berkeley at the time of her marriage to him. Her first husband, Lieutenant Edward Berkeley, was a member of the Berkeley family which founded the first iron works in the colony at Falling Creek; and he was living at the time of the Muster of 1624; but no record of his marriage exists, and there is no other evidence of Jane Martiau's maiden name or origin. She came to Virginia in the ship "Seaflower", as shown by the Muster of 1624, arriving in February 1622. It has been said that she may have been one of the "Doves" who were imported to Virginia to become wives to the colonists; but a thorough survey of the facts shows this to have been an impossibility. The minutes of the Council and General Court of Virginia for July 5, 1627 relate that "at this court Mrs. Jane Martiau delivered in an Inventory of the Estate of Lieutenant Edward Berkeley, deceased, upon her oath."
1656-57: will of Nicholas Martineau dated March 1, 1656 - 7, and proved April 4, 1757, names three daughters:

• Elizabeth, his eldest daughter was the wife of George Reade;
• Mary married John Scasbrook, of York County; and
• Sarah married Captain William Fuller, distinguished Puritan governor of Maryland.

These daughters were probably by the second wife, Jane, widow of Edward Berkeley. Martieau's French wife and children probably did not survive "the seasoning period." Nicholas was the common ancestor of George Washington, Robert E. Lee and many other eminent Virginians.

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Elizabeth Jane (Page) Martiau [SIC: no support for maiden name]

• Birth: 1593
• Death: 1640 Yorktown York County Virginia, USA
• Burial: Grace Episcopal Churchyard Yorktown York County Virginia, USA Plot: E13

She arrived on 22 Feb 1621 at age 30, from England to Virginia on the ship 'Seaflower (Seafloure)' with first husband Lt. Edward Berkeley and daughter Sarah. (Ref: About Virginia Prominent Families, Vol 1-4 compiled biography of prominent families of Virginia).

The National Park Service (NPS) exhumed her body in May 1936 from the original grave on Buckner Street in the family cemetery. The NPS identified her body as in grave number 7. (Ref: The Huguenot Publication No. 12, 1943-45)

Family links:

• Spouse: Nicolas Martiau (1591 - 1657)*

Children:

• Elizabeth Martiau Reade (1615 - 1686)*
• Sarah Martiau Fuller (1625 - 1694)*
• Calculated relationship

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Created by: Thomas Record added: Jan 14, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 103549785

Links

• http://www.glenncourt.com/genealogy/fam_martiau.php
• http://www.jamestowne-ksmo.org/Monthly-Ancestor.html
• http://kentuckykindred.wordpress.com/tag/edward-berkeley/
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103549785/elizabeth-jane-martiau

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103549785

Jane widow of Lieut. Berkeley http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7831230

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From Ancestry citing Find a Grave records--see sources

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Life Sketch

The first name of Nicholas' 2nd wife was Jane, she being the widow of Edward Barkley (aka Bartlett, Berkeley) as seems proven in York Co. documents. Her maiden surname is claimed in some secondary sources to be Page or Eggleston, in others as Boykin. Have yet to see evidence to back up any of these claims, although there is one "Ellins Boykin" named as one of the 14 headrights of Nicholas Martiau in his 1639/40 land patent. Which could possibly indicate some connection between he & the Boykin family. Can anybody provide us with documentation to establish her birth identity?

There is no proof for her to be a Scarsbrook nor is there for her to be a Berkeley (except by marriage). But this is such a convenient Jane at this connection that it is hard not to consider her. The Berkeleys are certainly aquainted with the Scarsbrooks. This would make Edward Berkeley and her to be 2 cousins.there is also the Boykin name as Jane's sirname connection that is unproved. Nor disproved.That Jane Boykin is supposedliy baptized 27 dec 1610 and died 1640...per Founders and first families of Colonial Virginia.

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Widow of Edward Berkeley.

Widow of Edward Berkeley.

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Notes

1625 Married Jane Berkeley/Barkeley, widow of Lt. Edward Berkeley. Became step-father to her daughter Jane Berkeley. (Martiau) letter Lord Hastings filed in Huntington Museum, Manuscript Archives, San Marino, California.

Nicholas Martiau was from a family of French Protestants that had taken refuge in Belgium, because of their religious beliefs, sailed from England in the Spring of the year 1620 on the vessel "Francis Bona Venture". He settled upon a tract of land 1,300 acres along the York river. Nicholas Martiau was an ancestor to General George Washinton (1st president of the United States) who commanded the continential army, General Nelson, who commanded the Virginia forces at the seige of Yorktown. Information from "Tyler's quarterly historical genealogical magazine vol 1" pg 53. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgess in 1624 and took part in laying the foundations of the Rupublicon an enduring basic. pg 55. Nicholas Martiau married Jane Berkeley widow of John Berkeley having lost his life in the Indian Massacre of 1622. Nicholas Martiau raised his step daughter Jane, and had four children of his own wit Jane. His son Nicholas Jr. died before reaching maturity. One daughter Sarah, married Captain William Fuller, the Governor of Maryland another daughter, Mary, married Colonel John Scasbrook, a leader in the Bacon Rebellion. The third daughter Elizabeth, married Colonel George Reade who in 1637 was Secretary of the Colony and in 1638 was acting Governor. It is through Elizabeth and George Reade that Washington traces his ancestry to Martiau, for the Reade daughter Mildred, married Augustine Warner II; the Warners daughter Mildred married Lawrence Washington; the Washingtons son, Augustine, married Mary Ball who was the mother of George Washington. Captain Nicholas Martiau thus became the great-great-great-grandfather of the First president. Information from "Colonial Yorktown" by Clyde f. Trudell pg 41.

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!From Lewis of Warner Hall History of a

!From Lewis of Warner Hall History of a Family by Sorley, p. 33: Nothing is known of the ancestry of Nicolas Martiau's wife, who was the widow Jane Berkeley at the time of her marriage to him. He first husband, Lieutenant Edward Berkeley, was a member of the Berkeley family which founded the first iron works in the colony at Falling Creek' and he was livin g at the time of the Muster of 1624 (Feb. 16, 1623/4) (Hotten, p. 184); but no record of hismarriage exists, and there is no other evidence of Jane Martiau's maiden name or origin. She came to Virginia in the ship "Seaflower" ("Seafloure"), as shown by the Muster of 1624, arriving inFebruary 1621/2. It has been said that she may have been one of the "Doves" who were imported to Virginia to become wives to the colonists; but a thorough survey of the facts shows this to have been an impossibility (Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 42, p. 145). The minutes of the Council and General Cout of Virginia for July 5, 1627 relate that "At this court Mrs. Jane Martiau delivered in an Inventory of the Estate of Left. Eduard Bartley, deceased, upon her oath".

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just to correct & elaborate on the the first note:

Jane was not the widow of John Berkeley as Clyde Trudell stated. Her husband was Edward Berkeley/ Barkley/ Bartley/ Bartlett, known to be alive as late as May, 1625. The letter that Martiau wrote to the Earl of Huntingdon 12 Dec 1625 says, "I am now both a husband and a father, & so constrayned to staye a while longer...untill my little ones can rise & follow mee." First recorded proof that he had married to Jane Barkley was i 5 Jul 1627 as given in their marriage record above. But he obviously was married to somebody and had at least a couple children before 1625 ended & these children seem not to have born in VA but in England since no children are listed with him on the 1624/5 muster and, indeed, his patent for 1300 acres in Charles River [York] County, 14 March 1639/40 recites that 700 of those acres were due him "for transportation at his own expense of 14 persons into the Colony, [including]: Cpt Nicholas Martiau, Mrs Jane his wife, Nicholas Martiau his son, Elizabeth Martiau his daughter, Jane Barkeley her daughter..." (His other 2 daughters named in his will are not named as head rights here, they having been born in Virginia as the children of Mrs Jane Barkeley, who is evidently, as we analyze all these facts, his 2nd wife).

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Info and short Bio from Find-a-grave.com

Birth: 1593 Death: 1640 Yorktown York County Virginia, USA

She arrived on 22 Feb 1621 at age 30, from England to Virginia on the ship 'Seaflower (Seafloure)' with first husband Lt. Edward Berkeley and daughter Sarah. (Ref: About Virginia Prominent Families, Vol 1-4 compiled biography of prominent families of Virginia).

The National Park Service (NPS) exhumed her body in May 1936 from the original grave on Buckner Street in the family cemetery. The NPS identified her body as in grave number 7. (Ref: The Huguenot Publication No. 12, 1943-45)

Family links: Spouse: Nicolas Martiau (1591 - 1657)*

Children: Elizabeth Martiau Read (1615 - 1686)* Sarah Martiau Fuller (1625 - 1694)*

• Calculated relationship

Burial: Grace Episcopal Churchyard Yorktown York County Virginia, USA Plot: E13

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!The Widdow Jane Berkeley had one daught

!The Widdow Jane Berkeley had one daughter, Jane, by her husband Edward Berkeley. She married Nicholas Martieu after her first husband died. Nicholas and Edward were close friends and served in the King's Militia together. Nicholas and Jane had three daughters, Elizabeth, Anne, and Mary and probably one son, Nicholas. The Son probably died young and unmarried because his sister Elizabeth inherited the bulk of her father's estate.

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THat book is simply done from the Royal

THat book is simply done from the Royal records, such as BURKE's and the other (my brain just died, I think) Here are some of the sources on that line of READE: Some Prominant VA Families, duBellet, p 8; The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of VA, membership 2541 ibid;, Pedigree V The Descent of HM Queen Elizabeth, Americans of Gentle BIrth=Pittman Vol II; Natl Society colonial Dames #12805, William and Mary 14, p 117. (the Colonial Dames and Hug. Soc. numbers are my cousin's) Landed Gentry of Great Britain. Genealogies of VA Families, Vol IV, Reade Family.

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Elizabeth Jane Page She arrived on 22 Feb 1621 at age 30, from England to Virginia on the ship 'Seaflower (Seafloure)' with first husband Lt. Edward Berkeley and daughter Sarah. (Ref: About Virginia Prominent Families, V

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"Nicolas Martiau the Huguenot" by Stroud

"Nicolas Martiau the Huguenot" by Stroudt (enc 77) "Families of Virginia" (enc 82) "Early Va Immigrants" by Green (enc 94) Composites of above are filed with enc 74- Irene Hover Anderson Correspondance . A French Huguenot who came to US in search of religious Freedom. 1621 came to Va on the "Seaflower" Mrs Jane (Edward) Bartley or Berkley dau Jane (or Mary). Husband Edward Bartley still alive Jan 1624 1639 Immigrants listed with Charles River Co: Jane Martiau sponsored by her husband Capt Nicolas Martiau Elizabeth Martiau sponsored by her father Capt Nicolas Martiau Nicholas Martiau sponsored by his father Capt Nicolas Martiau (#94) 1648 Immigrants listed with Gent. Co: Capt Nicolas Martin sponsored by George Read Elizabeth Martin sponsored by George Read (her husband) Mrs Jane Martin by George Read (#94) Naturalized in Northampton Co England, emigrated to Va abt 1620, settled in Yorktown Va. Justice for York Co 1632-1657 Member of the House of Burgess Will made 1 Mar 1657 York Co Va, recorded 4 Apr 1657. Children named were Elizabeth (md George Read)- Could be my ancester according to family rumor; Jane (md Col John Scarbrooke) could be Mary dau of his first marriage who md John Searsbrook; and Sarah (md Capt William Fuller) (#82)