William Shorte (abt. 1530 - 1584)

Born about 1530 in England [uncertain]

Died 1584 at about age 54 in London, England [uncertain]

Biography

William Shorte was the husband of Susan/Suzanna Rogers. He is mentioned in her burial entry in the parish register of St Mary Woolnoth, London, and is described as a grocer.^[1] His birth date is uncertain.

The parish register of St Mary Woolnoth records that William had the following children, presumably all with Susan:

• Eliezer (a son) died 1563^[2]
• John died 1563^[2]
• Rebecca baptised 1563^[3]
• Eliazer (a daughter) baptised 1565^[4]

With at least two young children to care for, William quickly remarried, in February 1565/6 at St Giles Cripplegate, to Elizabeth Wyngate.^[5]

It would appear that all William's children died young, as when he died in 1584, the will named his brother Thomas Short as heir and no mention is made of any children.^[6] In addition to Thomas, the will describes relationships to the following people:

• Elizabeth Shorte, wife
• Thomas Winter, nephew (son of William's sister, Agnes)

William was buried at St Stephen Coleman Street on 8 July 1584.^[7]

Research Notes

The Rogers pedigree in 1634 Visitation of Middlesex gives his first name as John, and describes him as a London merchant.^[8] So do the Visitations of Warwickshire.^[9] His wife's burial record says he was "William Shorte".^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} J M S Brooke and A W C Hallen. The Transcript of the Registers of the United Parishes of S Mary Woolnoth and S Mary Woolchurch haw, Bowles and Sons 1886, p. 188, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} J M S Brooke and A W C Hallen. The Transcript of the Registers of the United Parishes of S Mary Woolnoth and S Mary Woolchurch haw, Bowles and Sons 1886, p. 187, Internet Archive
3. ↑ J M S Brooke and A W C Hallen. The Transcript of the Registers of the United Parishes of S Mary Woolnoth and S Mary Woolchurch haw, Bowles and Sons 1886, p. 11, Internet Archive
4. ↑ J M S Brooke and A W C Hallen. The Transcript of the Registers of the United Parishes of S Mary Woolnoth and S Mary Woolchurch haw, Bowles and Sons 1886, p. 12, Internet Archive
5. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJ5Q-R2Z : 10 February 2018), Wyllm Shorte and Elizabeth Wyngate, 28 Feb 1565; citing Saint Giles Cripplegate, London, England, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 380,199, 380,200, 380,201, 380,202, 380,203, 380,204.
6. ↑ William Shorte, Citizen and Grocer of London, will proved 27 July 1584, Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers, class PROB 11, piece 67: Watson (1584), The National Archives, Kew, England; "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 August 2019), Image 333/718 (subscription required).
7. ↑ St Stephen Coleman Street (City of London, England), Parish Register 1538-1598, folio 76 recto, Willm Short buried 8 July 1584; "London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 August 2019), Image 81 of 100 (subscription required); citing P69/STE1/A/001/MS04448, London Metropolitan Archives.
8. ↑ Sir George John Armitage (ed.). Middlesex pedigrees as collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian MS No. 1551 (the Visitation of Middlesex, 1634), Harleian Society, Vol. LXV, 1984, pp. 84-85, pedigree for Rogers of Sunbury, Internet Archive
9. ↑ Joseph Lemuel Chester, John Rogers: the compiler of the first authorised English Bible ..., London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861, pp. 222-224, Internet Archive