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From: "William Garner" <>
Subject: [PETERBRO] Request for Genealogical Research Advice
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:16:54 -0400


Dear Sirs:



I am interested researching a direct ancestor, Captain Robert Gardner
(alternative spellings: Gardinor, Garner, Gyner or Gynar or Gynor, Garnes,
Gaine), who was probably born in England during the period 1575-85 and died
by 1634, and was involved from 1619 onward in transporting settlers from
England to Virginia to a settlement WarwickSqueake (later called Isle of
Wight County) along the southside of the James River (opposite and downriver
from Jamestown). Robert died by 1634 in either England, Virginia or en
route between. He had a least one son, Thomas. Thomas Gardner (Gardinor,
who was born in England around 1600 and married his wife Ann there, with
whom he had a son, John, born around 1624, before they all three moved to
Virginia and took up his father's inherited Virginia land patents of some
500 acres, which had been rented out for a tobacco farm to a James Tooke
after Robert's death in 1634 in order to support the heirs of Robert
Gardner.



Next to this Robert Gardner property in Virginia was another property
belonging to John Styles, a merchant from Peterborough, Northamptonshire who
was licensed to sell tobacco in Northamptonshire in 1633. I hypothesize
that Gardner and Styles were associated and thus Gardner may also have been
from Northamptonshire, England.



Robert Gardner (Gyner) may alternatively have come from Isle of Wight,
England, because the leader of the enterprise of founding the WarwickSqueake
settlement was Sir Richard Worsely, knight baronet of Appuldercombe, who
funded and patented the enterprise, along with Captain Christopher Lawne,
(Captain) Nathaniel Basse, John Hobson, Anthony Olevan, Richard Wiseman,
Robert Newland (merchant) and William Willis. Captain Robert Gardner
(Gyner) somehow later became considered a ship's captain himself, but he may
have been only a first mate or other kind of officer in the early transport
of those settlers. Of those nine persons total, two of them were reported
to already have been "captains", thus one other than Captain Christopher
Lawne, who was the leader on the first ship "Marygold" in early 1619. The
then two Governors of Isle of Wight England, Sire George Carey and Henry
Wriothesley, also had connections to such settlement enterprises in
Virginia.



That same Christopher Lawne was also a radical Puritan separatist
pamphleteer, who had spent time as an elder in one of the two competing
Exiled English Churches in Amsterdam during 1612-13. It is thus also
possible that Robert Gardner (Gyner) was earlier associated with Lawne and
that Amsterdam church, because the 500 acres which he later patented was at
Lawne's Creek on the James River, directly alongside the original site of
the original 1619 Lawne's plantation in the Warwicksqueake settlement.



I would greatly appreciate your kind consideration of this request for any
genealogical advice and research assistance that you might be able to
provide



Respectfully,



William V. Garner, Ph.D.



8899 River Road

Richmond, Virginia 23229





Cell Tel: (1.202) 669-5979





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