Roger Drake, of Bread Street (in London)

Wealthy mercer of Cheapside. "Roger Drake, son of Richard Drake and Christian Fawcett, clothworker, now living 1633, husband of Margaret, sister of Margery who married his brother John; daughters of John Allyn of Uttoxeter. Children: Roger, 1st son & heir, Master of Arts in Cambridge; Richard, Master of Arts in Cambridge & fellow of Pembroke Hall, 2nd son; John, 3rd son; Willliam, 4th son."

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From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BREWER/2003-01/104328...

Thomas' son John Brewer, of London & Virginia was the Brewer who came to Colonial Va. in the mid 1620's. Earlier Brewer biographies have stated that he came with his father a decade earlier, but the name Thomas Brewer does not appear in any Va. records until the late 1640's and then in connection with another family.
Little is known of his early life, but his later accomplishments suggest he was reasonable well educated. Va. land patents and his will simply identify his wife as "Mary" or "Marie" providing no hint as to her maiden name. Prof. Boyd's Marriage Register of England cites the marriage of John Brewer to Mary Drake in 1615, St. Vedast, London. Earlier biographies of John have confused his marriage with that of his Uncle, John Brewer, who married Mary Grove.. They were married in 1596, the approximate year of the younger John's birth.
John Boodie in his 17th Century Isle of Wight Co, Va. supplies an abstract of John Drake's 1623 London will, in which he makes bequeaths to Margaret Drake, wife of his brother Roger, and to John (John II)and Margaret, the children of john Brewer, grocer of London, and his wife Mary. John Drake was the brother of the Anne Drake who married Thomas Brewer, son of William Brewer the physician. His brother Roger Drake is the same "Uncle Roger Drake" that John Brewer named as guardian to his children in his 1635 will. In all probability, Mary Drake, Brewer was his daughter.

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From link to Visitation of London, Drake, Bread Street Ward

Roger Drake, son of Richard Drake and Christian Fawcett, clothworker, now living 1633, husband of Margaret, sister of Margery who married his brother John; daughters of John Allyn of Uttoxeter. Children: Roger, 1st son & heir, Master of Arts in Cambridge; Richard, Master of Arts in Cambridge & fellow of Pembroke Hall, 2nd son; John, 3rd son; Willliam, 4th son.

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• page 448 of DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. "DRAKE, ROGER, MD (1608-1669)" DRAKE, ROGER, M.D. (1608-1669), physician and divine, came of a family seated at Cheddon, Somersetshire. He was born in 1608, the eldest son of Roger Drake, a wealthy mercer of Cheapside, who died in December 1651 (smyth, Obituarg, Camd. Soc. p. 31; Will reg. in P. C. C. 55, Bowyer).
• page 404 of Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County ... By John Bennett Boddie

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John Boodie in his 17th Century Isle of Wight Co, Va. supplies an abstract of John Drake's 1623 London will, in which he makes bequeaths to Margaret Drake, wife of his brother Roger, and to John (John II)and Margaret, the children of john Brewer, grocer of London, and his wife Mary. John Drake was the brother of the Anne Drake who married Thomas Brewer, son of William Brewer the physician. His brother Roger Drake is the same "Uncle Roger Drake" that John Brewer named as guardian to his children in his 1635 will. In all probability, Mary Drake, Brewer was his daughter.

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From page 404 of Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County ... By John Bennett Boddie

John Brewer of London and Virginia wrote his will in 1631 and mentioned his uncle Roger Drake," citizen and clothworker of London."