Thomas Drew, Sr.

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1. Thomas Drew, often quoted as coming from Exeter, on the sole basis of a namesake being recorded in the Visitation of Devon. He was more likely to have been the Thomas Drew, bapt. May 7, 1594 (son of Robert) in Stocklinch Ottersay, 30 mls. fom Dunster, Somerset, manor of the Lutterell family. Thomas Drew apparently m. (as her third husband) Frances Ward, relict of (1) William Barker, mariner, (2) Robert Letherland. William Barker, mariner, was a partner of Francis Derick: E 115/117/162. Certificate of residence showing Francis Derricke to be liable for taxation in Gloucestershire, and not in the hundred of Winterstoke, etc., Somerset, the previous area of tax liability. 1621 E 115/124/59. Certificate of residence showing Francis Derricke to be liable for taxation in Gloucestershire, and not in the half-hundred of Portbury, etc., Somerset, the previous area of tax liability. 1626. E 115/128/37. Certificate of residence showing Francis Derricke to be liable for taxation in Gloucestershire, and not in the hundreds of Brent, Bempstone, Portbury, and Hartcliffe, Somerset, the previous area of tax liability. 1628. E 115/115/51. Certificate of residence showing Francis Derricke to be liable for taxation in Bristol. 1629.