Born: 1645?, baptized 6 January 1645 and died 21 September 1703
aged 58.
Son of: Robert Spearman
Esq (1623?-1657?) of Preston and Dorothy Spearman nee Pattison.
Brother of:
1. Thomas Spearman (1647-1647).
2.
Robert Spearman (1650-1654).
3. Robert Spearman (1657-1728) who
married Hannah Webster.
4. Dorothy Spearman
5. Ester Milburne nee Spearman who
married John Milburne of Chirton in Northumberland.
John
married: 3 November 1663, Elizabeth Whitfield, daughter and co-heiress
of Richard Whitfield, Esq, junior alderman of
Durham.
John and Elizabeth had
issue:
1. George Spearman (1664-1664).
2.
Michael Spearman (16??-1686?).
3. Francis Spearman (1669-1678).
4.
John Spearman (1672- ) who married
Ann Bromley (16??-1702) daughter of Robert Bromley of Nesbett in Durham.
5. Robert
Spearman (1673-1673?).
6. Gilbert Spearman
(
7. Elizabeth Mickleton nee Spearman
(1667-????) who married Michael Mickelton Esq of Crook Hall near Durham.
8.
Dorothy Cuthbert nee Spearman (1670-1754?) who married John Cuthbert
(1675-1724), Recorder of Newcastle Upon Tyne, lived at
Herrington in Sunderland.
John Spearman: An Overview
We know about John from the following sources:
1. Noted in the
book 'Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry' by John
Burke.
John Spearman Esq of the city of Durham, baptized 16 Jan 1645, a sound and judicious lawyer and antiquary, and thirty years under-sheriff of Durham. In 1678, he purchased the manor of Thornley, and in 1686, a motely of the manor of Hetton-le-Hole, in Durham. He married 3 November 1663 Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Whitfield, Esq, junior alderman of Durham, and had issue.
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