Nicholas Babbs, Mayor of Guildford

Bef 1515 - Bef 1550  (< 35 years)

• Name	Nicholas Babbs
  Suffix	Mayor of Guildford
  Birth	Bef 1515  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 4 Oct 1550	Guildford, Surrey, England   [2]
  Burial	4 Oct 1550	Guildford, Surrey, England   [2]
  Person ID	I20569	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2017

  
  

  Family	Helen Parkhurst,   b. Abt 1516, Guildford, Surrey, England
  Children	+ 1. Helen Babbs,   b. Bef 15 Sep 1546, Guildford, Surrey, England d. Bef 31 Oct 1614, Beccles, Suffolk, England (Age < 68 years)
  Family ID	F12717	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2017

  
  

• Notes

  "Nicholas Babbs is first heard of in 1539 when he appears on the list of 'Harnes appoyntd within the towne of Guldeford'; Constable in 1541, Flesh and Fish Taster in 1542, along with another man, 1544 on the jury, 1545 on the list of approved men indicating he had been a bailiff, same year named as an Affeerer (an official who assesses fines and fees not already standardly fixed), 1545 bailiff again, and same year listed as a fishmonger for the whole of Lent for which privilege he was assessed 6d. His burial record says he had been Mayor of Guildford." [Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1559] Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, With a Genealogy of the Ancestors of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Tyler, prepared by Cornelius B. Tyler. 1912. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990.