Individual Details
Leonard Calvert
(1550 - Aft 1611)
a country gentleman
Notes for Leonard Calvert: from Paul Tobler
According to Descendants of Virginia Calverts:
...Leonard, son of John and Margerie Calvert. This Leonard Calvert, father of George, was born about 1550 (Estimated). He was a country gentleman, apparently in easy circumstances, who owned land and raised cattle. He married about 1575 (estimated) Grace (or Alicia) Crossland, daughter of Thomas and Joanna (Hawksworth) Crossland of Crossland Hill, Yorkshire. (See Foster's Visitations of Yorkshire) and descended from Roger de Crossland, of the time of Henry III.
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More About Leonard Calvert:
Fact 7: Member of Flemish family long settled in Yorkshire, England
From the book "George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert, Barons Baltimore of Baltimore" by Wm. Hand Browne, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1890.
"He acquired the estate of Kiplin, in the same valley [Swale-near the town of Danby Wiske], in the latter part of Elizabeth's reign."[Brøderbund Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction, Date of Import: 31 May 1999, Internal Ref. #1.17.1.5287.29]
Individual: Calvert, Leonard
Birth date: Abt. 1550
Birth place: ENG
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Notes for Leonard Calvert: from Paul Tobler
According to Descendants of Virginia Calverts:
...Leonard, son of John and Margerie Calvert. This Leonard Calvert, father of George, was born about 1550 (Estimated). He was a country gentleman, apparently in easy circumstances, who owned land and raised cattle. He married about 1575 (estimated) Grace (or Alicia) Crossland, daughter of Thomas and Joanna (Hawksworth) Crossland of Crossland Hill, Yorkshire. (See Foster's Visitations of Yorkshire) and descended from Roger de Crossland, of the time of Henry III.
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More About Leonard Calvert:
Fact 7: Member of Flemish family long settled in Yorkshire, England
From the book "George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert, Barons Baltimore of Baltimore" by Wm. Hand Browne, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1890.
"He acquired the estate of Kiplin, in the same valley [Swale-near the town of Danby Wiske], in the latter part of Elizabeth's reign."[Brøderbund Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction, Date of Import: 31 May 1999, Internal Ref. #1.17.1.5287.29]
Individual: Calvert, Leonard
Birth date: Abt. 1550
Birth place: ENG
CD# 100
Not all information verified and/or documented. Not all are my direct line (only those denoted by *). Please use this as a guide and contact the source for more information. I am actively making updates and corrections and reposting the information. With
Events
| Birth | 1550 | Danby Wisk, North Riding, Yorkshire, England |  | ||
| Marriage | Bef 1579 | Alicia Grace Crossland |  | | |
| Death | Aft 1611 | England |
Families
| Spouse | Alicia Grace Crossland (1557 - ) |
| Child | Samuel Calvert ( - ) |
| Child | Helen Calvert (1571 - ) |
| Child | George Calvert (1579 - 1632) |
| Child | Christopher Calvert (1582 - ) |
| Child | Robert Calvert (1585 - 1632) |
| Child | Mary Calvert (1586 - ) |
| Child | John Crossland Calvert (1587 - ) |
| Father | John Calvert (1515 - 1566) |
| Mother | Dorothy Leonard (1527 - 1611) |
| Sibling | Thomas Calvert (1546 - ) |
| Sibling | Robert Calvert (1553 - ) |
Notes
Marriage
These two families' coat-of-arms, the Calvert's and Crossland's, are used in the design of the Maryland State flag.Endnotes
1. Paul Tobler e-mail tobler@hctc.net.
2. Paul Tobler e-mail tobler@@hctc.net.
3. from will of Peter Johnson, where he names wife's childrent from John Mattingly: James, Joseph and Luke. Presume others d, p. 3.
4. from will of Peter Johnson, where he names wife's childrent from John Mattingly: James, Joseph and Luke. Presume others dead, p. 3.