Source: Allen Ackley 

Sources: Barbara J. Thompson LCSW; Allen Ackley 

Source: My Family Tree- Waddell, Logsdon, Davidson, Carpenter; Darre ll G.
Waddell ; Index to Bedfordshire, http://home
.clara.net/williamlack/indices/beds.htm

Some sources list her surname as Acworth

Per: Horton Clopton Root Ancestors and Descendants,  Tina Lamb 

Joan was the daughter of George Acworth of Luton, Bedfordshire, heir of h er
mother Margaret Wilberforce. Joan married William Bulmer, son of Sir Jo hn
Bulmer, but it was not a happy marriage and there were no children. S he left
her husband and joined the boisterous throng. She and Katherine fo rged a
friendship which was almost the undoing of the family.

Two young gallants, Francis Dereham and Edward Waldegrave, who was a gentl
eman in waiting on the Duchess, wooed the girls. And young people being yo ung
people in a huge house boasting halls and closets, and chambers both l arge
and small, found ways to meet secretly at night. Dereham and Waldegra ve would
lie on the girls’ beds in the night hours up to dawn. Love toke ns were
exchanged and nature took its course, of course.

By the time Katherine was appointed to the household of Queen Anna of Clev es
as one of six maids-in-waiting, she had transferred her affections to a
nother, Thomas Culpeper, a distant Howard cousin. She was eighteen or nine
teen by then. Before that little romance could go very far, however, Clopt on
kinsman King Henry VIII saw her and fell instantly and completely in lo ve
with her.

After efficiently and with surprising ease divorcing Queen Anna, King Henr y,
roughly thirty years older than Katherine, took her as his fifth wi fe on July
28, 1540. A few days before the marriage, Joan,[8] her partn er in the
nighttime romantic extravaganzas at Lambeth, wrote her a lette r. She confided
that her marriage had brought her “into the utmost mise ry of the world and
most wretched life,” and urged Katherine, to send f or her, pleading: . . .
not to be forgetful of this my request, for if y ou do not help me, I am not
like to have worldly joys. Desiring you, if y ou can, to let me have some
answer of this for the satisfying of my min d; for I know the Queen of Britain
will not forget her secretary, and favo ur you will show.

And what a cozy arrangement this turned out to be. Brought to court were h er
merry companions, and at the urging of Duchess of Norfolk, Francis Dere ham
was made her secretary. The king was old and grossly overweight and Ka therine
was young and healthy and filled with a lusty love of life. She a nd Thomas
Culpeper recklessly renewed their involvement, although just h ow involved
will ever remain one of history’s secrets. It was only a matt er of time
before the King was made aware of the affair. Dereham was haul ed off to the
Tower and tortured. Culpeper, Joan and Edward soon joined hi m. Taken, too,
were the children belonging to the prisoners. The Tower w as so crowded the
Royal Apartments were opened to house the unfortunate pr isoners.

From documents regarding the conviction of Thomas Culpeper and Francis Der
eham of High Treason in committing adultery with Queen Katherine Howard a nd
of the others of concealment in December 1542, we read: The Jurors furt her
find that the said Katherine Tylney, Alice Restwold, wife of Anthony Restwold,
of the same place, Gentleman; Joan Bulmer wife of William Bulme r, of the same
place, Gentleman; Anna Howard, wife of Henry Howard la te of Lambeth, Esq.;
Robert Damporte late of the same place, Gentleman; Malena Tylney late of the
same place, widow; and Margaret Benet, wife of Jo hn Benet, late of the same
place, Gentleman; knowing the wicked life of t he Queen and Dereham, did
conceal the same from the King and all his Counc illors. And that this said
Agnes, Duchess of Norfolk, with whom the que en had been educated from her
youth upward; William Howard, late of Lambet h, uncle of the Queen and one of
the King’s Councillors; Margaret Howar d, wife of William Howard; Katherine,
Countess of Bridgewater, late of Lambeth, otherwise Katherine the wife of
Henry, Earl of Bridgewater; Edward W aldegrave late of Lambeth, Gentleman; and
William Asheley, late of Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, knowing that
certain letters and papers had be en taken from a chest and concealing the
information from the King.

Katherine Tylney, Alice Restwold, Joan Bulmer, Anna Howard, Malena Tylne y,
Margaret Benet, Margaret Howard, Edward Waldegrave, and William Ashel ey are
brought to the Bar by the Constable of the Tower, and being several ly
arraigned as well upon the Surrey Indictment, as the Indictments for Ke nt,
and Middlesex, they pleaded guilty.

JUDGEMENT: they shall be severally taken back by the Constable of the Towe r,
and in the same Tower, or elsewhere, as the King shall direct, be ke pt in
perpetual imprisonment and that all their goods and chattels sha ll be
forfeited to the King, and their lands and tenements seized into t he King’s
hands.

Joan and Edward were released and pardoned within ten months as were so me of
the others. But their old friends met with horrifying ends. Dereham ’s death
was accompanied by disemboweling and castration while still consc ious.
Culpeper had his head striken off And Katherine Howard was execut ed on the
same block in the same place as her cousin Anne Boleyn not qui te six years
previously.

After the death of her husband Joan married Edward about 1556.

The past “unpleasantness” involving Edward and Joan evidently did not prec
lude the general opinion that by marrying their daughter, Margery Waldegra ve,
William Clopton consolidated his status and rank. He built Castlings H all, a
large rambling house in Groton, County Suffolk. There they rais ed a big
bustling family of six boys and six girls.

Castelyns, or Castlings, Hall is a lovely old Manor House overlooking Cast
ling’s Heath. In 1294 the manor is recorded as being in the Lordship of S ir
Gilbert Chastelyn. In the 15th Century it was held by the Knyvett fami ly from
whom it was passed by the marriage to the Clopton family. Willi am Clopton
built the manor in the late 16th century, undoubtedly replaci ng an earlier
house. He became the first Clopton to reside there. In 16 15 John Winthrop,
the future governor of Massachusetts, wooed and won Thom asine Clopton as his
second wife. There is on the property an oak tree tho ught to be 500 years
old. In 1984 Clopton descendants planted a new Clopt on Oak, as it was dubbed,
from the rooted cutting from the ancient tree.

With a sharp eye the couple made good marriages for their children. The Sa
mpson, Winthrop, and Doggett families would all send forth their offspri ng to
settle in the new American colonies. Through intermarriage the Clopt ons would
be connected to the Josselyns, Gosnolds, Bradfords.

Doggett: Members of this family were well represented at Jamestown..
Bradford: Dorothy May, the wife of William Bradford, Governor of Plymou th
Colony, Massachusetts, a descendant of William Clopton’s sister, Franc es
Clopton and her husband, Martin Bowes. Dorothy’s place in history was a ssured
the day she fell into the Cape Cod Harbor from the Mayflower and dr owned
while her husband was absent on an exploring expedition on shore. Wh ether it
was an accident, or suicide, or murder, no one has ever known.

Source: My Family Tree- Waddell, Logsdon, Davidson, Carpenter; Darre ll G.
Waddell 

Sources: Published in The Oklahoma Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volu me 9,
Number 2, 1964; Family information from J. O. Adair, 1721 S Ave C, P ortales,
NM 88130-7269

1880 Census [CN]: Tahlequah, 11
1890 Census [CN]: Tahlequah, 2110
1902-07 Dawes roll: card# 5783, roll# 28848
1906-09 Miller roll: Tahlequah, OK, ap# 7000, roll# 3220
Biography: 1892, O'Beirne, Indian Territory, page 371
Blood: 1/16 Cherokee
Occupation 1: 1880, Teacher
Occupation 2: 1890, Carpenter

One additional child was born to him in 1889, and was apparently dead before
birth and was not named to my knowledge. JCT 10/22/2007

1851 Siler roll: Murray Co., GA., fam# 3, roll# 1828
1852 Chapman roll: Murray co., GA., fam# 3, roll# 1958

Added to family lines per: June Hines,  Cherokee Heritag e,
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2243840&id= I52
8469234

1851 Siler roll: Murray Co., GA., fam# 3, roll# 1829
1852 Chapman roll: Murray Co., GA., fam# 3, roll# 1959

Edward was elected Clerk of Sequoyah District August 3, 1885.
Elected Councilor from the same district August 1, 1887 and August 5, 1895 .

Source: Starr's History of the Cherokee Indians, pg. 545