William Cann, of Bristol and Compton Greenfield

Mayor of Bristol 1648

William Cann, merchant, of Bristol and Compton Greenfield, married Margaret, sis. of Robert Yeamans, merchant, of Wine Street, Bristol.

Notes

From History of Parliament:

William Cann, 1st Bt., was alleged to have persuaded his father not to jeopardize his estate by joining in his uncle’s plot to betray Bristol to Prince Rupert in 1643. His father continued to hold municipal office till his death; as mayor he proclaimed the Commonwealth in 1649 and served on the assessment commission during the Interregnum. Cann inherited or acquired land both in the Bristol area and in the West Indies, where he owned a sugar plantation.

From Samuel Rudder, A New History of Gloucestershire (1779), p.801:

There is a handsome seat, and a large estate in this tithing, formerly belonging to the Canns. William Cann, of Compton, alderman of Bristol, married Margaret, sister to sir Robert Yeomans.

Links

• http://www.pcez.com/~bigshoe/du/Stub/stump.html
• http://www.trinity-bris.ac.uk/cann-family-tree
• http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/ca...
• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CANN/2001-09/0999537363
• http://www.trinity-bris.ac.uk/sir-robert-cann-bt