William Savell

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Savell-158

William Savell, the son of George Savell and Katheren (Byshop) Savell, was baptized at St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden, Essex on February 28, 1563/4.[1]

William married Margaret Parker at St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden on June 29, 1592.[2]

William and Margaret had the following children, all baptized St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden:

1. Margaret, bpt. February 14, 1593/4,[3] no further record found
2. Elizabeth, bpt. December 28, 1595,[4] bur. April 11, 1596[5]
3. Mary, bpt. February 14, 1596/7,[6] m. May 26, 1618 Edmond Hull in Saffron Walden[7]
4. Elizabeth, bpt. December 10, 1598,[8] bur. September 23, 1618[9]
5. Ann, bpt. April 26, 1601, m. April 25, 1625 Samuel Basse in Saffron Walden, d. September 5, 1693 in Braintree, Province of Massachusetts Bay. (See discussion and sources in Ann's profile.)
6. William, bpt. February 24, 1604/5, d. August 2, 1669 in Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony. (See discussion and sources in William's profile.)
7. John, bpt. March 1, 1606/7,[10] presumably died young
8. Susan, bpt. June 4, 1609 (daughter of "William Saveyle"),[11] no further record found
9. Benjamin, bpt. July 21, 1611,[12] no further record found
10. John, bpt. June 19, 1614,[13] no further record found

By a deed dated March 25, 1623, a list of 30 persons (which included a Nicholas Parker and his son Thomas), who are described as "feoffees of lands the profits of which are expended on the persons in the Almhouse in Walden" [essentially trustees of a charitable trust for the poor], leased to William Savell of [Saffron] Walden, joiner, and wife Margaret, for 20 years at an annual rate of 20 shillings per year, a messuage in a street called Freshwell Hundred in [Saffron] Walden, abutting on the east a tenement in occupation of James Greaves, weaver, on the west a tenement in the occupation of Widow Campion, and on the south the land of John Wood.[14] (It should be noted that, as shown on the profile for William's father, his father Georve Savell had, in his lifetime, been one of the trustees of the lands for the Almhouse in Walden.)

William was buried at St. Mary the Virgin on February 3, 1638/9.[15]

Sources

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Savell-158
2. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 7. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. See image attached to this profile.
3. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 80. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. See image attached to this profile.
4. 1 Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 34. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Transcription available at findmypast.com.
5. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 36. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Transcription available at findmypast.com.
6. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 110. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Transcription available at findmypast.com.
7. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 36. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Transcription available at findmypast.com.
8. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 88. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Transcription available at findmypast.com.
9. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 38. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Transcription available at findmypast.com.
10. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 126. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Transcription available at findmypast.com.
11. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 46. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Transcription available at findmypast.com.
12. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 48. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Transcription available at findmypast.com.
13. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 50. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Transcription available at findmypast.com.
14. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/1. Image 53. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Transcription available at findmypast.com.
15. D/B 2/5/8. Essex Records Office. Transcript available online at essexarchivesonline.co.uk.
16. Registers of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden Parish, Essex, England. D/P 192/1/2. Image 50. Essex Records Office. essexarchivesonline.co.uk. See image attached to this profile.
17. See alsoMuno, Patricia Thayer. The Thayer - Tayer - Theyer Families of Gloucestershire, England. 1500 - 1660. Thayer family History Society, Braintree, MA.