William Brewster

Abt 1535 - 1590  (~ 55 years)

• Name	William Brewster  [1]
  Born	Abt 1535	Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1590  [2, 3]
  Person ID	I9652	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TNH
  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)
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2021
  Family ID	F3775	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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.