William Brewster

Abt 1535 - 1590  (~ 55 years)

• Name	William Brewster  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1535	Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England   [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 d. 1558 (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Maud Man   d. 1558, of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England
  Family ID	F5469	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Smythe   d. Aft 1566
  Children	+ 1. William Brewster,   b. Abt 1567, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England d. 10 Apr 1644, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts (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

  [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S548] John G. Hunt, "The Mother of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 124:250, October 1970. [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982.