John Hethersey ¹¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• History: Local - Calverton - Stocking Frame, 1589, Calverton, Nottingham, England. Calverton's most famous son is undoubtedly William Lee, the inventor in 1589 of the stocking frame. His influence can still be seen in some of the old stockinger's cottages-with windows specially designed to give maximum light to the stocking frame.

• History: The Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes, 1605, London, Middlesex, England. The Gunpowder Plot. James was a firm protestant, and in 1604 he expelled all Catholic priests from the island. This was one of the factors which led to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. A group of Catholic plotters planned to blow up Parliament when it opened on November 5. However, an anonymous letter betrayed the plot and one of the plotters, Guy Fawkes, was captured in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament with enough gunpowder to blow the place sky high. Most of the plotters were captured and executed.

John married Elizabeth Wylkinson, daughter of Robert Wylkinson and Helen Ironshaw, on 3 Aug 1606 in Calverton, Nottingham, England. (Elizabeth Wylkinson was born in 1586 in ?? Calverton, Nottingham, England.)