Ananias Dare

Ananias Dare (c.1560 – June 27, 1597, legal death) Ananias Dare was the husband of Elinor White (c.1563–1597) of Westminster, London, England – whom he married there in the church of St Clement Danes on June 24, 1583 – and father of Virginia Dare (1587–1597), the first recorded child birth to Northern European parentage on the Continent of North America on August 27, 1587. {{ref|2nd_Birth}}

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1560 - June 27 - 1597 - Legal death - Westminster - London, England - St Clement Danes - June 24 - 1583 - Virginia Dare - Northern European - North America - August 27 - 1587

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Very little is known of this person other than this one particular event, but his father-in-law, John White, was appointed the first Governor of Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke colony in the same year, 1587, and was also the first scientific illustrator appointed by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth I, to illustrate everything in particular that he observed was different or foreign to English eyes.

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John White - Sir Walter Raleigh - Roanoke - 1587 - Queen Elizabeth I - English

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As such, John White probably had been educated as a doctor; and the name "Ananias" also does seem to indicate something of a physician's mentality – at least upon that of the father who presumably named him, but not without similarities to other funny sounding names such as Phillip Amidas, Arthur Barlowe, Richard Hakluyt and a number of the other original colonists, which indicates that Sir Walter Raleigh himself seems to have had an affinity for the "strange and peculiar."

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Physician - Phillip Amidas - Arthur Barlowe - Richard Hakluyt

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According to the Index to Acts of Administration in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1596 – 1608, Ananias had a son by the name of John who was placed into the custody of a John Nokes of London in April of 1594 and "decreed" his son in June of 1597. Both John Nokes and a certain Robert Satchfield had originally applied to the Canterbury Court for the guardianship in 1594. This Robert Satchfield may very well be the same Robert Sackville (1561–1609), 2nd Earl of Dorset. The following is an exact quote from the abreviated entry:

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Canterbury - 1596 - 1608 - 1594 - 1597 - Guardianship - Robert Sackville - Earl of Dorset

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:Dare, Ananias, St. Bride, Lond. To Jn. Nokes, k., dur. min. of Jn.D., s. (by Decree), (prev. Gnt. Apr 1594, p. 95), Jun 1597, p. 213

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::Translation ... "dur. min." means: "during minority" and is usually written: "durante minore aetate"; and basically concerns the "minor person of", and then the name. "Aetate", which means "age", is understood and can, as in this case, subtly refer to an a person's estate. Such "double talk" is typical in Latin with things alluded to having an outward meaning as well as an additional "subtle" meaning "reserved" for those of an ominous "inner circle".

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Double talk - Latin - Inner circle

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So that immediately the children of the missing persons from the Colony were placed into respective guardianships, and all of them were eventually declared dead by the Prerogative or other appropriate court.

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The external link below indicates that Virgina Dare's parents were married in the same above Church of St Bride's, London and a carving of her bust is situated above the font of the church. However, exhaustive checking did only turn up the above-stated Church of St Clement Danes located nearby, and with an exact marriage date.

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St Bride's, London - Font - St Clement Danes

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The name Ananias itself is of Jewish or Hebrew origins, and one of the same name was both a friend to Daniel the prophet and was cast into the "firey furnace" by the Babylonian King Nabuchodonosor. The name is also associated with both Paul and Peter the Apostles in the Bible where one or the same had sent a Jewish messenger to Paul and another or the same was cursed to death by Peter for backing off of a monetary promise. The Ananias of Daniel is alternately refered to as Sidrach.

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Ananias - Jewish - Hebrew - Daniel - Babylonian - King Nabuchodonosor - Paul - Peter - Apostle - Bible - Sidrach

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It has been conjectured that the name Dare is possibly a mispelling of Darre or Darr or possibly even Darte, Darke or Drake, but nothing has been proven. If the name Darr is correct, then the name is of Jewish origins and Ananias Dare was probably a Jew. The name Dare is common from Devonshire, Sir Walter Raleigh's homestead, and it seems probable that this is where Ananias came from. In her book, Hilliard and Oliver (1972) Mary Edmond relates that a certain Leonard Darr (1554–1618), subject of a Nicholas Hilliard miniature painting and wealthy merchant of Tavistock, was quite possibly a close relative of Ananias. Leonard and his goldsmith relatives were mostly Jewish.

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Drake - Jewish - Devonshire - Oliver - Nicholas Hilliard - Miniature painting - Tavistock - Goldsmith

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In Frances Rose-Troup, John White, the Patriarch of Dorchester and the Founder of Massachusetts (1930), the author mentions a Rev John White (1575–1648) who appears to be the son of the same above-mentioned John White. There, the author also gives mention of a certain George Dier (1579–1672) and his relationship to the Rev John White. In Charles Edward Banks, The Planters of the Commonwealth (1930, 1st edition) there is an important mention of a vessel by the name of Mary & John that the same above-mentioned Rev John White sponsored from Plymouth, Devonshire, England to Dorchester on March 20, 1630. On that vessel's ship's list is both mention of a John Drake, close relation of Sir Francis Drake, as well as that of a George Dyer – the same George Dier that is mentioned in Rose-Troup.

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Dorchester - John White - Plymouth, Devonshire, England - March 20 - 1630 - George Dyer

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A relationship between George Dyer of Dorchester and Ananias Dare, therefore, appears also to be obvious given: that the name Dare had been "mispelled" by the people of Plymouth, and George never bothered or cared to change this.

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More research is necessary, however.

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