1. John¹ Colt was born before 1488, the first event for which there is a recorded date.

John Colt had the following family:

2 i. Jane² Colt was born 1488. Jane died 1511 at 23 years of age. She married Sir Thomas More January 1505. Thomas was born in London, Middlesex, England 7 February 1478. Thomas was the son of John More and Agnes Graunger. Thomas died 6 July 1535 in London, Middlesex, England, at 57 years of age. On the morning of Tuesday, July 6th, 1535, more took his last walk from the Tower to the scaffold on Tower Hill. He was composed and carried with him a small red cross, symbol of the blood of Christ and also of the Crusaders who had perished in the Holy Lands. Sir Thomas had to lie on the scaffold and rest his neck on the small block that was provided. The only member of his family that was present was his ward and adopted daughter, Margaret Giggs Clement. The fact that no more members of his family were there was probably that there was no advanced warning of the event and Sir Thomas had only been told himself that morning.

Following the execution as was the custom in those days, the head of Sir Thomas was skewered on a pike on London Bridge. It was his favourite daughter, Margaret, that secured the release of his head into her custody and supposedly brought the remains back to Canterbury in a lead-lined casket to be placed in the Roper family tomb in St. Dunstan's Church. Following the beatification of Sir Thomas by a nineteenth century Pope, the Church of St. Dunstan's has become the site of an annual pilgrimages by Roman Catholics. (See Sir Thomas More for the continuation of this line.)

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