PARTRIDGE, William (d.1598), of Bridge, Kent.

Family and Education

1st s. of Thomas Partridge of Lenham by Elizabeth Sibbell of Kent. m. (1) Alice Duffield of London, s.p.; (2) Katherine, da. of John Wilde of Terbury (?Canterbury), 1s.; (3) Affra.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. lxxv), 18. The order of wives is not made clear. Probate of will granted to widow Affra (PCC 62 Lewyn). ‘Afra’ also in i.p.m. (C142/253/82); i.e. probably a third w. not a shortened form of name of his second wife.

Offices Held

Feodary, Kent by 1562, j.p. from c. 1573, piracy commr. 1577; commr. Dover haven 1580; sewers, Kent 1583 – 96, musters 1584; surveyor of ordnance by 1595.CPR, 1560–3, p. 547; Lansd. 146, f. 18; CSP Dom. 1547–80, p. 671; 1595–7, pp. 81, 223–4; Twysden Lieutenancy Pprs. ed. Scott Thomson (Kent Arch. Soc. recs. br. x), 67.

Parlimentarian

PARTRIDGE, William (d.1598), of Bridge, Kent.

Main residence: Bridge, Kent.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

PARTRIDGE, William (-d.1598)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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