Researching John Gerard
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 511 people with the Gerard surname? In that year Gerard was ranked number 3068 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Gerard on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Gerard and the Gerard Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 563 people with the Gerard surname in the UK? Gerard is now ranked number 3509 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called John Gerard
John Gerard
John Gerard (also John Gerarde, c. 1545–1612) was an English herbalist with a large garden in London. His 1,484-page illustrated Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597, became a popular gardening and herbal book in English in the 17th century. Except for some added plants from his own garden and from North America, Gerard's Herbal is largely a plagiarized English translation of Rembert Dodoens's 1554 herbal, itself highly popular in Dutch, Latin, French and other English translations. Gerard's Herball drawings of plants and the printer's woodcuts are mainly derived from Continental European sources, but there is an original title page with a copperplate engraving by William Rogers. Two decades after Gerard's death, the book was corrected and expanded to about 1,700 pages.
Source: John Gerard, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
John Gerard (Jesuit)
John Gerard (4 October 1564 – 27 July 1637) was an English Jesuit priest who operated covertly in England during the Elizabethan era, during which the Catholic Church was subject to persecution. He was the second son of Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn, in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire.
Gerard notably not only successfully hid from the English authorities for eight years before his capture but also endured extensive torture, escaped from the Tower of London, recovered and continued with his covert mission. After his escape to the Continent, he was instructed by his Jesuit superiors to write a book about his life in Latin. An English translation, published in 1951 as The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest, is a rare first-hand account of the dangerous cloak-and-dagger world of a Catholic priest in Elizabethan England.
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