Family and Education
b. 1570, 1st s. of William Whiteway, yeoman, of Denbury, Devon and Thomasine, da. of John Gould of Staverton, Devon.W.M. Barnes, ‘Commonplace Bk. of a Dorsetshire Man’, Procs. Dorset Nat. Hist. and Antiq. Field Club, xvi. 61, 64. educ. appr. Dorchester 1585; Dorset RO, D53. factor, France 1590. Barnes, 66. m. 16 Nov. 1598, Mary (d.1655), da. of John Mounsell, merchant, of Weymouth, Dorset, 5s. (4 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1614. Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 387, 482; Barnes, 66-8. admon. 7 May 1640. PROB 11/183, f. 50v.
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Member, Spanish Co. 1605, Spanish Co. ed. P. Croft (London Rec. Soc. ix), 48. French Co. 1611, Select Charters of Trading Cos. ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 66. Dorchester New Eng. Co. 1624. D. Underdown, Fire from Heaven, 133.

Capital burgess, Dorchester 1610, Municipal Recs. of Dorchester ed. C.H. Mayo, 41. bailiff 1611 – 12, 1616 – 17, 1620 – 21, 1625 – 26, 1635–6, Hutchins, ii. 354. alderman 1629–d., Municipal Recs. of Dorchester, 57. j.p. 1630–d., William Whiteway of Dorchester (Dorset Rec. Soc. xii), 110. mayor 1631–2. Hutchins, ii. 354.

Main residence: Dorchester, Dorset.
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Commons 1604-1629
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WHITEWAY, William I (1570-1640)

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