Nicholas Ferrar (spelling of London) was a skinner and gent of London; Deputy of the Virginia Company of London
Nicholas Farrar was born in 1544/5 (75 years old in 1619/20) at Harford [Hertford].[1]
Nicholas was the son of John Farrar or Ferrar of Hertford.[2] John Farrar of the town of Hertford was taxed on £60/6/8 in 1570.[2] Administration of the goods of John Ferrar of Hertford was granted to his widow, Mary Unknown, on 13 August 1590.[2]
The books of the Skinners' Company record Nicholas Ferrar, son of John Ferrar of the town of Hertford, was apprenticed to John Harvey, skinner and merchant adventurer, at Michaelmas, 1564; took up his freedom in December 1574; became a member of the company and was a master in 1613.[2]
Nicholas married Mary Woodenoth[2] in 1580 at London, London, England.[3][4] Mary was the daughter of Lawrance Wodenote, Lord of Shavington, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of John Roepe [Rope} of Stapely, Esq.[5]
Nicholas and Mary were the parents of:
Nicholas was a leading member of the Virginia Company, purchasing on 1 June 1608, from William Allen of London, Esq, for £20, a chamber for the meetings of that company.[2] In 1624, his son Nicholas wrote a critical account of the efforts of Thomas Smythe. The treatise argued that Smythe was unfit to continue in any role of management for the fledgling Virginia Colony.[citation needed]
In May 1624, the Charter of the Virginia Company was rescinded.
When "Nicholas Farrar, citizen and skinner of London" made his will on 23 March 1619 (now 1620), he was aged "three score and fifteen" and living in a house purchased from William Allen at St Sythe's Lane, St Bennett Sherehogge parish, London.[1] In his will, Nicholas left bequests to:[1]
Nicholas Farrar's will proved at London on 4 April 1620.[1]
Note: The will of Henrie Ferror, names John Feror of Averods as a witness https://archive.org/details/farrerandsomevar00farr/page/32/mode/2up?id=pk9HAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA19&q=%22henrie+ferror%22. Ferror is an occupational name and it's spelling was subject to the interpretation of the scrivener and the translator, depending on class and regional accent, and there is no Feror, only Ferrors. And Henry (Henrie) had distributed his estate to his heirs before he made the will, which only mentions his wife and daughter Agnes). This John Ferror of Averods would be his brother as John Ferror of Elphaborough (Elfaborough) hall is his son.With that in mind,the grandson of Henry,John Ferrar-24, bought land in Hertford, named Great Amwell which he left to his son William Farrar-393 https://archive.org/details/farrerandsomevar00farr/page/126/mode/2up?id=pk9HAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA19&q=amwell
In 1892, portraits of Nicholas Ferrar, the elder, and his wife, Mary Woodenoth, by Janssen, hung in the Master's Lodge of Magdolen College, Cambridge.[2]
Parents: A user generated family tree says Nicholas' parents married in 1568, at Hertford, Hertfordshire, England.[6] This is not correct as Nicholas states in his will, made in March 1620, that he was 75 years old, therefore his parents married in or before 1544.[1]
Hertford: Some sources state this Harford/Hertford is in Yorkshire[6] while others believe it is in Hertfordshire.[2] There is a place called Hartforth, also known at times as Herfort and Hertford, in Gilling Parish, in the Wapentake of Gilling West, North Riding of Yorkshire, England.[7]
Wife: The article on the Farrar Family in volume VII of The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography says Nicholas' wife, Mary, was the daughter of George Woodnoth of Shavinton, Cheshire, and gives a condensed version of the pedigree of the Woodnett family from the Visitation of Cheshire.[2] The article follows the 1580 Visitation of Cheshire,[8] which the 1613 Visitation's pedigree for Woodnoth of Shevington notes omits the generation containing Lawrence Woodnoth and his wife, Margaret Rope, who were the parents of Mary who married Nicholas Ferrer of London.[5]
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