Biography of John St John 1st Baronet 1585-1648

On 5th November 1585 John St John 1st Baronet was born to [his father] John St John [aged 33] and [his mother] Lucy Hungerford.

Before 1593 [his father] John St John [aged 40] and [his mother] Lucy Hungerford were married.

In 1594 [his father] John St John [aged 42] died.

Before 1595 [his step-father] Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton [aged 27] and [his mother] Lucy Hungerford were married. They were fifth cousin once removed.

On 3rd April 1601 John St John 1st Baronet [aged 15] commenced his education at Trinity College, Oxford University.

In 1604 John St John 1st Baronet [aged 18] admitted at Lincoln's Inn.

On 9th July 1604 John St John 1st Baronet [aged 18] and Anne Leighton were married.

On 2nd February 1608 John St John 1st Baronet [aged 22] was knighted at Whitehall Palace [Map].

In 1613 [his son] Oliver St John was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 27] and [his wife] Anne Leighton. He married 1648 Catherine Vere Baroness Poulett, daughter of Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere and Mary Tracy Baroness Spencer Tilbury, and had issue.

On 5th November 1614 [his daughter] Anne St John Countess Rochester was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 29] and [his wife] Anne Leighton. She married (1) October 1632 Francis Henry Lee 2nd Baronet, son of Henry Lee 1st Baronet, and had issue (2) 1644 Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester, son of Charles Wilmot 1st Viscount Wilmot and Sarah Anderson, and had issue.

On 24th March 1615 [his son] John St John was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 29] and [his wife] Anne Leighton. He married Dorothy Ayloffe.

In 1616 [his son] William St John was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 30] and [his wife] Anne Leighton.

On 26th February 1617 [his son] Edward St John was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 31] and [his wife] Anne Leighton.

In 1618 [his daughter] Barbara St John was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 32] and [his wife] Anne Leighton.

On 29th March 1620 [his son] Nicholas St John was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 34] and [his wife] Anne Leighton.

In 1621 [his daughter] Lucy St John was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 35] and [his wife] Anne Leighton.

In May 1622 [his son] Walter St John 3rd Baronet was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 36] and [his wife] Anne Leighton. He married 1651 his sixth cousin Johanna St John Baroness St John Lydiard Tregoze and had issue.

In 1623 [his son] Francis St John was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 37] and [his wife] Anne Leighton. He died aged one in 1624.

In 1624 [his daughter] Elizabeth St John was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 38] and [his wife] Anne Leighton. She died aged five in 1629.

In 1624 John St John 1st Baronet [aged 38] was elected MP Wiltshire.

In 1624 [his son] Francis St John [aged 1] died.

In 1625 [his son] Thomas St John was born to John St John 1st Baronet [aged 39] and [his wife] Anne Leighton. He died aged five in 1630.

On 19th September 1628 [his wife] Anne Leighton died in childbirth.

In 1629 [his daughter] Elizabeth St John [aged 5] died.

In 1630 [his son] Thomas St John [aged 5] died.

On 23rd October 1630 John St John 1st Baronet [aged 44] and Margaret Whitmore [aged 54] were married.

In 1631 Cornelius Janssens aka Johnson [aged 37]. Portrait of John St John 1st Baronet [aged 45]. Lydiard House.

In 1632 John St John 1st Baronet [aged 46] was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire.

In October 1632 [his son-in-law] Francis Henry Lee 2nd Baronet [aged 16] and [his daughter] Anne St John Countess Rochester [aged 17] were married. She by marriage Lady Lee of Quarrendon in Buckinghamshire.

Before 24th November 1637 [his wife] Margaret Whitmore [aged 61] died.

On 18th April 1639 [his son] Nicholas St John [aged 19] died.

In November 1642 [his son] Oliver St John [aged 29] died.

In 1644 [his son-in-law] Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester [aged 31] and [his daughter] Anne St John Countess Rochester [aged 29] were married.

In 1648 John St John 1st Baronet [aged 62] died. His grandson John [aged 6] succeeded 2nd Baronet St John Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire.

In 1648 [his son] Oliver St John and [his former daughter-in-law] Catherine Vere Baroness Poulett [aged 35] were married.

[his son] Henry St John was born to John St John 1st Baronet and Anne Leighton. He married his sixth cousin Catherine St John.