- Robert Sr. Whitaker [His grandson immigrated to America]
Birth: circa 1604
Padiham, Lancashire, England
2. Robert Whitaker, Il MP
Birth: March 29, 1637
North Yorkshire, England
Death: February 6, 1741 (103)
Grindletown, York, England
Immediate Family:
Son of Robert Sr. Whitaker
Husband of Margaret Whitaker
3. Joshua Whitaker, Sr. MP Immigrated to America
Birth: December 22, 1675
London, Middlesex, England
Death: September 26, 1719 (43)
Lexington, Rowan County, Province of North Carolina
4. William Whitaker MP Also Immigrated
Place of Burial: Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery, Davidson County, North Carolina, United States
Birth: February 10, 1701
Grindleton, Yorkshire, England
Death: 1789 (87)
Rowan County, North Carolina, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Joshua Whitaker, Sr. and Jane Whitaker
[Although the previous Whitakers died in Rowan County, Mark Whitaker was born in Pennsylvania. From that fact, I deduce that the family lived in Pennsylvania in between the times that they lived in England and North Carolina. They probably sailed into the Port of Philadelphia:
5. Mark Whitaker – Born in USA
Birth: circa 1726
Kennett Square, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: March 2, 1780 (50-58)
Lincoln, Tennessee, United States
[In like fashion, Mark Whitaker was born in Pennsylvania and he died in Tennessee, but in between, he lived in Rowan County, where William Whitaker died.]
6. John Whitaker [Pegleg]
Place of Burial: Mulberry Cemetary, Tennessee, United States
Birth: 1760 or 1761
Rowen, North Carolina, United States
Death: June 13, 1837 (77)
Mulberry, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Mark Whitaker and Tabitha Ann Whitaker
Husband of Martha Whitaker and Nancy Whitaker
[Note: Pegleg’s brother Mark married Catherine Boone, who was a first cousin of Daniel Boone.
In order to pass from Rowen County, NC, to Lincoln, TN, the family would have passed through the Cumberland Gap, and they traveled along the Wilderness Road. Daniel Boone is famous for his connection o both the Cumberland Gap and the Wilderness Road.
Daniel Boone was born in 1734 in Pennsylvania.
John Pegleg’s grandfather, an older Mark Whitaker, was born in Kennett Square, PA, in 1726.
Both the Boones and the Whitakers were Quakers in Pennsylvania and both would eventually move west to Kentucky via the Cumberland Gap and the Wilderness Road.
Catherine Boone married Mark Whitaker in Rowan County, NC, and my branch of the Whitaker family also lived in Rowan County, North Carolina, before they moved west. Daniel Boone lived longer in North Carolina than in any other state.
In short, there is a connection between my Whitaker family and Daniel Boone and/or his family.
7. Daniel Whitaker
Birth: 1795
His parents are John Pegleg Whitaker and Martha Wilcoxson.
Woodford, Kentucky, United States
Death: 1882 (87)
Obion, Tennessee, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of John Whitaker and Martha Whitaker
Husband of Nancy Whitaker
8. Milton James Whitaker
Birth: September 18, 1832
Mulberry, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States
Death: March 3, 1908 (75)
Clarkton, Dunklin, Missouri, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Daniel Whitaker and Nancy Whitaker
Husband of Sarah Elizabeth Godsey Whitaker
Father of Emma Lee Whitaker; Nancy D. Whitaker; Coldonia Olive “Callie” Whitaker; Elizabeth Almeda Capshaw; Rev. Robert N. Whitaker Mayme Lena and 6 others
9. Mayme Lena Whitaker
My Great Grandma=other
Birth: January 1, 1879
Tennessee, United States
Death: September 4, 1963 (84)
Clarkton, Dunklin, Missouri, United States
