William Tothill, of Exeter

Was born ABT. 1500 in Exeter, Devonshire, England, and died 1591 in Exeter, Devonshire, England. He married Elizabeth Mathew. She was born ABT. 1510 in Wales, and died 1584.

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• The descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came from old to New England in 1635, and settled in New Haven in 1639, with numerous biographical notes and sketches : also, some account of the descendants of John Tuttle, of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill, of Hingham, Mass. (1883)
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• 36 children not from one wife. ELIZABETH MATHEW of Vorganwg, dau. of Geoffrey Mathew of Glamorganshire, mother of Geoffrey, John, Robert, Richard, and perhaps several more.
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• Of the 36 children of WILLIAM TOTHILL, the names on record of only 12 are known to us, and the order of these not certain: 1. Joan, m. John Hulse, (2) Richard Hokeley. 2. Grace. 3. Geoffrey, m. Joan Dillon. 4. John. 5. Alice, m. William Parsons. 6. Juliana, m. Richard de Burnbury. 7. Amy, m. ___ Hill. 8. Elizabeth, m. Thomas Stukeley of Pulam. 9. Richard, m. Joan Grafton. 10. Robert. 11. Daughter, m. Thomas Walker (2) Thomas Cranston. Katharine, m. William Kingsley; (2) Nicholas Drake. _____________________
• Richard Tottel (died 1594) was an English publisher and influential member of the legal community. He ran his business from a shop was located at Temple Bar on Fleet Street in London. The majority of his printing was centered around legal documents, but he is most known for a collection he edited and published in 1557 called Songes and Sonnettes
• Early life
• Son of WILLIAM TOTHILL (the more common spelling of the family name) and ELIZABETH MATTHEW, Richard Tottel’s early life is not one easily deciphered. Tottel’s father was a wealthy citizen of Exeter, England and held many public offices in his life span including bailiff in 1528, sheriff in 1529, and eventually mayor in 1552. Tottel was the third child of eleven, having three brothers and seven sisters.[1][2]
• At some point, approximately 1540, Tottel was indentured to a William Middleton, a printer of law books in London. Towards the end of Tottel’s indentureship, in 1547, William Middleton died. Middleton’s wife remarried within seven months to William Powell, another printer of Law books. The new Mrs. Powell and William Powell freed Tottel, who then went on to take over the printing house of Henry Smithe at the Sign of the Hand and Star after Smithe’s death in 1550. Sometime after, Tottel married Joan Grafton who bore him one son, William, and several daughters.[2]
• References
• 1.^ Byrom, H. J. "Richard Tottell—His Life and Work." Library 4th ser. VIII.2 (1927): 199. Print.
• 2.^ a b c d Kinney, Arthur F., and David W. Swain, eds. "Tottel, Richard." Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 2001. 699-700. Print.
• 3.^ a b c Stephen, Leslie, and Sidney Lee, eds. "Tottel, Richard." The Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. XIX. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1973. 1001-002. Print.
• 4.^ a b c Knott, Christopher A. "Richard Tottell." The British Literary Book Trade, 1475-1700. Ed. James K. Bracken and Joel Silver. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 170. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Web. 5 Oct. 2009.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tottel