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Family and Education
bap. 26 Jan. 1599, 4th s. of Thomas Keeling (bur. 12 Dec. 1617), alderman and tanner of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., and Thomasine (bur. 26 Apr. 1635), da. of Robert Sidway of Stoney Low, Madeley, Staffs.;Newcastle-Under-Lyme Par. Regs. ed. A.J. Tilson (Staffs. Par. Regs. Soc. 1931), i. 26, 30, 38, 50, 69; Vis. London 1633-5 ed. J.J. Howard (Harl. Soc. xvii), 25; Pape, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, 81. bro. of John Keeling†. m. 28 July 1623, Ellen, da. of John Lockey of St Alban’s, Herts. wid. of John Sadler, at least 1s. d.v.p. 2da. (1 d.v.p.).Ridge, St Dunstan Stepney and St Mary, Whitechapel, London par. regs.; PROB11/319, f. 82; Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 152. d. 14 Oct. 1665.PROB11/319, f. 82v.
Offices Held

Mercantile: clerk, ‘foreign’ co. of shipwrights, Rotherhithe c.1630-aft. Feb. 1647.C6/136/78; ADM7/673, pp. 119, 130; LJ viii. 232a.

Central: sec. Trinity House, 23 Feb. 1649–56;CJ vi. 150a; GL, Ms 30032/1, ff. 98, 102. member, ct. of assts. by Feb. 1657 – Mar. 1660; elder brethren, 17 Mar.-c.Dec. 1660.GL, Ms 30045/4, pp. 106, 133, 192.

Religious: vestryman, St Dunstan, Stepney 27 Feb. 1655–27 Oct. 1663;LMA, P93/DUN/328, p. 15; Memorials of Stepney Par. ed. G.W. Hill, W.H. Frere (Guildford, 1890–1), 204, 242. churchwarden, Apr. 1655-Apr. 1657.Mems. of Stepney Par. ed. Hill, Frere, 207, 217.

Local: commr. militia, Tower Hamlets 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Mdx. Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660. Commr. sewers, London 24 July 1662.C181/7, p. 167.

: Mdx., Stepney.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

KELING, Edward (1599-1665), of Ratcliffe, Stepney, Mdx.

Will
13 Oct. 1665, pr. 13 Jan. 1666.PROB11/319, f. 82.
Estates
possibly the ‘Edward Keelinge’ of Stratford Langthorne, Essex, who borrowed £1,000 by statute staple in 1638.LC4/202, f. 84. By 1640, and until at least 1658, part owner of the chains laid in the Thames for mooring ships.CSP Dom. 1648-9, p. 396; 1658-9, p. 39. In 1649, granted an annuity of £5 for life by his brother John’s will.PROB11/208, f. 289. In 1649-56, received a salary of £30 p.a. as sec. of Trinity House.GL, Ms 30032/1, ff. 4, 7. In 1651, purchased three messuages in St Clement, Sandwich, Kent, for £140, and fee farm rents in Newby and elsewhere in Yorks. for £1,465.C54/3608/33; C54/3655/29. In 1655, purchased manor of Newby from John Hewley*, who had purchased it in 1653 from the trustees for the sale of forfeited estates.Supra, ‘John Hewley’; C54/3801/18. In his will, referred to a freehold estate in Sandwich, Kent, a lease from Sion College of manor of Beeches, Essex, lands in Hackney, Mdx. and a share in the merchantman John and Margaret.PROB11/319, f. 82.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
‘house or common hall’ of the co. of shipwrights, ?Rotherhithe (c.1630-aft. 1646);C6/136/78. Holborn, Mdx. (1644).CSP Dom. 1644, p. 139.
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