William Bartholomew, I

• William Bartholomew
• M, #74595, b. 7 February 1567, d. 5 May 1634
• Father John Bartholomew b. c 1528
• Mother Margaret Joyes b. c 1530
• William Bartholomew was christened on 7 February 1567 at Warborough, Oxfordshire, England. He married Friswide Metcalf, daughter of William Metcalf, circa 1588 at of Warborough, Oxfordshire, England. William Bartholomew died on 5 May 1634 at Fulbrook, Oxfordshire, England, at age 67.
• Family Friswide Metcalf b. 9 Feb 1569, d. 10 Dec 1647
• Child
  • William Bartholomew+ b. c 1602, d. 16 Jun 1680
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2482.htm#... ______________
• Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of ... edited by Lyman Horace Weeks
• https://books.google.com/books?id=SyF4jgEACAAJ&dq=Prominent+Familie...
• https://archive.org/details/prominentfamilie00week
• https://archive.org/stream/prominentfamilie00week#page/45/mode/1up
• .... William Bartholomew, the immediate ancestor of the American Bartholomews, was born in Warborough in 1557 and died in 1634. He was a large wholesale dealer in silks and woolens, and accumulated a considerable property, so that he was a man of wealth for those days. His wife was Friswede Metcalf, daughter of William Metcalf, who was at one time Mayor of New Woodstock. She died in 1647.
• "The first Bartholomew to come to this country was William, the second son of William and Friswede Bartholomew. He was born in 1602, and received a good education in the grammer school of his native place. His wife, whom he married before coming here, was Anna Lord, a sister of Robert Lord. He arrived in Boston in 1634. and immediately took a foremost position in the Colony, being admitted as a freeman of Boston the same year that he landed. .... He died in 1680.
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"William Bartholomew the elder" was a mercer, a dealer in woolens and silk and costly fabrics. He was apparently a prominent member of the community: He was a town officer in 1620, mentioned on 2 Aug. 1620 as Bailiff, a Church Warden and mentioned as Burgess of Burford in a deposition of Nov. 1631. He was also a land owner of considerable property. He also is mentioned as a "mercer," of land.

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Burial: Bartholomew Chapel, St. John's Church Cemetery, Burford, Oxfordshire, England

Christening: 7 FEB 1566/67 Warborough, Oxford, England 1

Occupation: Mercer

Note:

"William Bartholomew I. (John II, John I) was a mercer (a dealer in silks and woolens) in Burford. At this time, Burford was known for its woolens. He was born before February 7, 1567 (the day he was christened) in Warborough, Oxfordshire, England. William was christened as "Will Bartylmewe." He married (at age 21) Friswide Metcalfe , daughter of William Metcalfe, in 1588 in Warborough, Oxfordshire, England. Their wedding date was one year after Mary Queen of Scots(1542-1587) is executed in Fotheringay Castle in Northamptonshire. William was buried on May 6, 1634 in Bartholomew Chapel, St. John's Church,Burford, Oxfordshire, England. Friswede Metcalfe was born on February 9, 1568/69 in Fulbrooke, Oxfordshire, England. She died on December 10, 1647 in Burford.(FTM, CD200; FTM, CD506; FTM, CD23)

"The town of Burford is about 20 miles west of the city of Oxford and close to the border with Gloucestershire. Its parish church of Saint John the Baptist has been the center of Christian worship and activity for over 800 years. The earlier church was likely built in Saxon times. As Burford grew in the wool trade, the wealthy donated money for the church to be enlarged. The church was completed in the late 1400s. The South Chancel Chapel (of Holy Trinty) contains memorials to the Bartholomew family. Bartholomews were buried their for many generations."

-http://www.angelfire.com/mi/RedBearsDream/BartholomewTable.html

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Settled Burford