Eleanor Dare
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Eleanor Dare of Westminster, London, England, was a member of the English Roanoke Colony in North America and the daughter of John White, the colony's governor. While little is known about her life, m
St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London, where Eleanor Dare was married.
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Virginia Dare
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Virginia Dare was the first English child to be born in an American English colony. She was born to members of the Roanoke Colony.
Eleanor Dare
…other women who left England in 1587 as part of the Roanoke expedition. She married Ananias Dare. It is known that she gave birth to their daughter Virginia Dare on Roanoke Island, in what is now North Carolina. The girl was the first child of English parents to be born in North America, on 18 August 1587, shortly…
US postage stamp issued in 1937, the 350th anniversary of Virginia Dare's birth
Baptism of Virginia Dare, wood-engraving, 1880
The return of Governor White to the "Lost Colony"
Memorial to Virginia Dare at St Bride's Church, Fleet St, London