Draft:John More

John More (called John More II to distinguish him from his grandfather, Sir John More the Judge) was the only son of Sir/St. Thomas More (1478-1535), one-time Chancellor to King Henry VIII. Sir Thomas had begun his married life in part of a property named the 'Old Barge', in Bucklersbury, where John was born in 1509, which had access to the Thames river by a waterway.

John More II married Anne Cresacre (a Ward of Sir Thomas More), (and brought up basically as his sister) and the only child of Edward Cresacre of Barnborough, Yorkshire, and his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Basset of Fledborough, Nottinghamshire, in December 1529. They had eight children. Their eldest son and heir was Thomas More II (so numbered to distinguish him from his grandfather), 1531-1606.

The year date is given as 1547 in Martin Wood's book, with their last child Francis More given the specific birth date 29 December 1546, which does allow another death date for John of 15 March 1546 but no credible source given. That has his death and burial place as Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England, in All Saints Churchyard