Yes, apparently a large proportion of the English can trace their ancestry back to Edward I!
Back to your Fleetwood ancestry:
John Fleetwood bap. 2 May 1706 Charterhouse Chapel, Finsbury, also recorded in St Botolph Without Aldgate register, spent a lot of time in Italy, inherited Tadworth Court in 1725 and lived there until he died in 1752. He was buried Banstead, Surrey, 27 February 1752 - not a weaver!
John Fleetwood bap. 4 January 1700/1701 St Andrew, Holborn - his father, William, was a carpenter, so I doubt that John would have been a weaver.
John Fleetwood bap. 4 December 1707 St Anne & St Agnes, London, son of Robert and Mary is a mystery as I have no further information about him or his parents. One to chase up!
Good luck!
So the one baptised in 1706 is definitely not mine.
I will chase up the ones baptised in 1700 and 1707:
It could still be the one baptised in 1700, but he just went into another occupation, although he would have been 42 when he married Mary. I think that John's mother was an Elizabeth. John went onto have children called William and Elizabeth. I know that's not saying much at all but at least it's a start, haha!
When I briefly looked up the 1707 baptism, that was the only baptism between a Robert and a Mary
of a child of theirs that I could find. They may possibly have come from another county.
If it is not either of those two, I will probably have to look for baptisms outside the area of London.
But there is another alternative: He could have been possibly born illegitimate, and then adopted the name of Fleetwood later in life.
As I mentioned earlier, there was a John, son of a John Fleetwood who was baptised a few days old in 1729, in Wapping right near to Stepney. He was baptised John Eaton Fleetwood. His father was also a Weaver. If it were not for his age being so young at marriage, I may have plumped for that one. Also if it was him, would he have been put down as a "minor" at the time of marriage?
Regarding a burial for John Fleetwood:
A search result on Ancestry gives two burials for a John Fleetwood:
One in 1763, and one in 1780. I have a family tree on Ancestry, but do not subscribe to it. So I can't view it to view the area where those burials took place, unless I go to the library and view it on their edition for free. I viewed the Clandestine marriage of John in 1742, on Find My Past.
I downloaded the image from Ancestry, from the Library of Elizabeth Fleetwood, and Charles Stanley. They were married in 1770 in Shoreditch. They were both put down as being: "of the parish."
A John Fleetwood, who may have been Elizabeth's older brother/ Elizabeth's father, left his mark.
So there is a POSSIBILITY that John Fleetwood was buried in Shoreditch/ in the area of Shoreditch.
P.S. I since looked into the John Fleetwood baptism in 1706: I think that the John Fleetwood baptised in 1706, may POSSIBLY have been descended from Oliver Cromwell's oldest daughter Bridget: Bridget Cromwell married Henry Ireton. Henry Ireton died, and then Bridget married a Charles (I think his name was Charles), who was a general in the Civil War. This is all according to "hints and suggestions" on Ancestry.com anyway, haha! He may have been Oliver Cromwell's grandson/ great grandson. There was some link with Clerkenwell anyway. And Finsbury is in the area of Clerkenwell also.
Thank you.
