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Samuel CRANMER
(1580-1640) |
Samuel CRANMER 3
Notes: He was the only son. Samuel was sent to London to learn the brewing trade, and after completing his apprenticeship became a Citizen and Brewer of London. At the age of 34 he married Margaret Alford, the widow of Philip Alford who had been a joint owner of the Swan Brewery in Whitechapel. Samuel soon became the sole proprietor of the Brewery, used the profits to purchase estates in Warwickshire and Buckinghamshire, was made Alderman of Cripplegate Ward in 1631, and was appointed one of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. He did not have any children with Margaret, and soon after she died in 1633 he married Mary Wood (qv). Samuel married Margaret SYMONS on 8 Mar 1614 in St Martin Pomeroy, London.1 (Margaret SYMONS died on 4 Mar 1633 8 and was buried on 22 Mar 1633 in St Mary, Whitechapel, Middlesex 9.) Samuel next married Mary WOOD, daughter of Thomas WOOD and Susanna CRANMER, on 4 Jul 1633 in St Margaret, Westminster.2 (Mary WOOD was christened on 2 Aug 1604 in St John, Hackney, Middlesex 10 and was buried on 24 Apr 1684 in St Peter, Astwood, Buckinghamshire 7.) |
1 Church Register, St Martin Pomeroy, FHL ref 0374481.
2 Church Register, St Margaret Westminster, FHL ref 2452388.
3 Church Register, St Gabriel Fenchurch St, FHL ref 0394830 (baptism of daughter Mary).
4 Waters R.E.C. (1878), "Memoirs of the Chesters of Chicheley Vols 1 and 2", London: Robson and Sons, p451.
5 Church Register, Alcester, FHL ref 557289.
6 Waters R.E.C. (1878), "Memoirs of the Chesters of Chicheley Vols 1 and 2", London: Robson and Sons, p455.
7 Church Register, BTs of Astwood, FHL ref 1999027.
8 Waters R.E.C. (1878), "Memoirs of the Chesters of Chicheley Vols 1 and 2", London: Robson and Sons, p453.
9 Church Register, St Mary Whitechapel, FHL ref 0094691.
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Church Register, Transcript of St John Hackney, FHL ref 0569924.
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