Thanks for the info on Kenton. As far as his son in London is concerned, there is very little info to be had and that's the brick wall I'm working on. Here's what I know about John Kent, the London Merchant Taylor. Born approx 1575. Started first of two apprenticeships in London 1589. Finished second apprenticeship and admitted to Merchant Taylors Co Feb 1599/1600. The second apprenticeship was just down the street from St Sepulchre. Presumably married sometime before 1602 but wife's name has eluded all Kent researchers. St Sepulchre parish records have long since gone up in smoke in major fire.
The only documented child was Humfrey, but many amateur family trees list several siblings without sources or proof of any kind. From the above it can be inferred but not proven that John and his wife lived near St Sepulchre and it is a reasonable guess that they met somewhere in that neighborhood during his apprenticeship or shortly after. There are no records for John after his admission to the livery and no conclusive record of his death.
His 5-yr old son Humfrey was admitted from St. Sepulchre to Christ's Hospital (grammar school for orphans) in Mar 1606/07. If, indeed, Humfrey was fatherless, John's death would have been sometime between 1602-1606. But there COULD have been other reasons to place him in the school. Humfrey petitioned to leave the school in 1617 to join his mother in Virginia. She most likely had remarried and mother and son may have made the trip together. There is no mention of anyone in Virginia as being Humfrey's mother or any record of a female Kent in what few Jamestown records exist (except for Humfrey's wife Joane). Humfrey lived out his life in Jamestown.
