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William Brewster

Male Abt 1535 - 1590  (~ 55 years)


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  • Name William Brewster  [1
    Birth Abt 1535  Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 1590  [2, 3
    Person ID I9652  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN
    Last Modified 27 Sep 2020 

    Father William Brewster,   b. 1510, of Bentley, Arksey, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1558 (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Maud Man   d. 1558, of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5469  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Smythe   d. Aft 1566 
    Children 
    +1. William Brewster,   b. Abt 1567, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Apr 1644, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 77 years)
    Family ID F3775  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2024 

  • Notes 
    • Appointed by Archbishop Sandys, in Jan 1576, receiver of Scrooby and bailiff the manor house belonging to the Archbishop, to have life tenure of both offices. [Lucy Hall Greenlaw, "Early Generations of the Brewster Family", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 53:109, 1899.]

      He was addressed as Mr.

  • Sources 
    1. [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020.

    2. [S548] John G. Hunt, "The Mother of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 124:250, October 1970.

    3. [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982.