Barkstead, John [created Sir John Barkstead under the protectorate] (d. 1662), major-general and regicide, was probably the son of Michael Barkstead, a London goldsmith, and his wife, Anne, daughter of John Downing. His grandfather had lived at Lichfield in Staffordshire and his family was originally from ...
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Blakiston, John (bap. 1603, d. 1649), politician and regicide, was baptized on 21 August 1603 at Sedgefield in co. Durham, the third son of Marmaduke Blakiston (1565–1639) and Margaret James (1575–1636). He was apprenticed to Christopher Shafto of Newcastle upon Tyne, probably in 1613, and became a free burgess, as a mercer, in 1627. Later, royalists described him as either a pedlar, butcher, chandler, or shopkeeper, but such disparaging comments cannot detract from the fact that by 1632 he was one of ...
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Breman [Braman], John (bap. 1627, d. 1703), army officer, politician, and conspirator, was baptized on 27 March 1627 at Alton, Hampshire, the eldest surviving son of Thomas Braman (d. 1661), mercer of Alton. He first appears in 1647 as one of the regimental agitators of the ...
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Chauncey, Ichabod (1635–1691), physician and alleged plotter, was born at the vicarage at Ware, Hertfordshire, the second son of Charles Chauncy (bap. 1592, d. 1672), minister of Ware, and Catherine Eyre (bap. 1604, d. in or before 1672). His father was suspended for his opposition to Laudian altar policy and in 1638 emigrated with his family to ...
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David Scott
Constable, Sir William, baronet (bap. 1590, d. 1655), parliamentarian army officer and regicide, was baptized on 4 March 1590, the only son of Sir Robert Constable (d. 1600) of Flamborough and Holme, Yorkshire, and his wife, Anne, daughter of John Hussey of ...
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Wilfrid Prest
Cook, John (bap. 1608, d. 1660), judge and regicide, was the eldest son of the landowner Isaac Cook (d. c.1658) and his wife, Elizabeth Twigden, of Burbage and Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire; he was baptized on 18 September 1608 at Husbands Bosworth...
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Corbett, Miles (1594/5–1662), politician and regicide, was probably born in Sprowston, Norfolk, where several generations of the Corbett family are buried, the second son of Sir John Corbett, baronet (d. 1628), who married a daughter of Sir Arthur Capel. A pedigree compiled between 1655 and 1659 lists ...
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Deane, Richard (bap. 1610, d. 1653), army and naval officer and regicide, was baptized on 8 July 1610 in the parish church of Guiting Power, a younger son of Edward Deane (d. before 1653) of Temple Guiting, Gloucestershire, and his second wife, ...
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Andrew J. Hopper
Ewer, Isaac (d. 1650/51), army officer and regicide, was a close relation and possibly son of Richard Ewer of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, and may have been related to the Ewers of Pinner, Middlesex, and Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. He was living at Hatfield by 1633, having by that year married ...
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Ferguson, Robert (d. 1714), pamphleteer and conspirator, was the son of William Ferguson of Badifurrow in Aberdeenshire. He received a liberal education in his native land, probably at the University of Aberdeen, where in 1650 the name 'Robertus Fergusone Aberdonensis' is entered in the record ( ...
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Christopher Durston
Goffe, William (d. 1679
William Goffe's date of birth and his place of residence during his early years are unknown. His mother, ...
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Harvey, Edmund (c. 1601–1673), regicide, was the first son of Charles Harvey (fl. 1600–1634), merchant, of London and his wife, Alice, daughter of Ralph Houghton of Houghton, Leicestershire. Harvey's grandfather had moved to London from the west country and his father was a ...
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Timothy Venning
Ingoldsby, Sir Richard, appointed Lord Ingoldsby under the protectorate (bap. 1617, d. 1685), army officer and regicide, was baptized on 10 August 1617, the second son of Sir Richard Ingoldsby (d. 1656) of Lenborough, Buckinghamshire, and Elizabeth (d. 1666), daughter of ...
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Henry Ireton (bap. 1611, d. 1651) attrib. Robert Walker, c. 1650 (after Samuel Cooper and Sir Anthony Van Dyck) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Ireton, Henry (bap. 1611, d. 1651), parliamentarian army officer and regicide, was baptized on 3 November 1611 in the parish church of Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. His father, German Ireton (d. 1624), who had settled in Attenborough about 1605, was the younger brother of ...
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Stephen K. Roberts
Jones, John (c. 1597–1660), parliamentarian army officer and regicide, was the son of Thomas ap John ab Ieuan ap Huw of Maesygarnedd, Llanbedr, Merioneth. His mother, Ellen, was the daughter of Robert Wynn of Taltreuddyn, Llanenddwyn, in the same county. Jones's immediate forebears were modest freeholders, but his mother's family claimed kinship with the important ...
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Lisle, John, appointed Lord Lisle under the protectorate (1609/10–1664), regicide, was the second, but eldest surviving, son of Sir William Lisle (d. 1648) of Wootton, Isle of Wight, and Bridget, daughter of Sir John Hungerford of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire. On 25 January 1626 he matriculated at ...
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Christopher Durston
Okey, John (bap. 1606, d. 1662), parliamentarian soldier and regicide, was the sixth child and second son of William Okey of St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, and his wife, Margaret Wetherley. The Okey family owned property in London and possessed a coat of arms. John...
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