William
Brewster
Born [date unknown] [location unknown]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Mirabell (Poley) Brewster
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
William Brewster and Anne Brewster
Died
[location unknown]
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Research notes
Bailiff, constable and gamekeeper at Castle Hedingham in Essex for the Earl of Oxford.
He married (1st) Anne Clopton, daughter of William Clopton of Liston Hall.
He married (2nd) Mirabel Poley, daughter of John Poley by his wife Anne Wentworth, daughter of the 1st Lord Wentworth of the South, a cousin of Queen Jane Seymour and a descendant of Edward III.
According to Burke, he had 2 sons called William, one by each wife. Probably the 2nd was the immigrant, but confirmation needed.
- Burke's Landed Gentry (1852), Part II (Addenda), p.338.
- Crisp, F.A: Visitation of England and Wales - Notes, Vol X, p.160. (Not seen - reference given by Hunt).
- Hunt, John G: "William Brewster, Gent., of Virginia", in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Oct 1967), pp. 407-409, on JSTOR (free, registration required).
- Recognizance for £1200 by the Earl of Oxford in favour of William Brewster and others, transcribed by Nina Green: PDF (small).
- Richardson, Douglas: Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd edn. 2011, Vol. 2 of 3, p.507, William Brewster as son-in-law of John Poley and Anne Wentworth. Also in Royal Ancestry (2013), Vol. 3 of 5, p.351.
- Clopton of Liston Hall, in Visitations of Essex, Pt I, ed. Metcalfe, Harleian Soc. 13 (1878), p.179.
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