DUNCH, William (c.1508-97), of Little Wittenham, Berks.

Family and Education

b. c. 1508. educ. ?G. Inn. m. Jan. 1548, Mary (d.1605), da. of William Barnes of London, sis. and coh. of John Barnes, porter of town and castle of Guisnes, 2s., Edmund and Walter.PCC 59 Cobham; Genealogist, v. 252; n.s. xxix. 12 seq.; Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi), 87; Mar. Lic. Fac. Off. (Harl. Soc. xxiv), 12.

Offices Held

Household official 1540; auditor of mint 1546–51 (with brief spell in prison 1549); esquire of body to Queen Elizabeth; escheator, Oxon. and Berks. 1559; j.p.q. Berks. by 1559 – c.77, sheriff 1570 – 71; commr. musters, Berks. 1573.Genealogist , n.s. xxix. 12 seq.; LP Hen. VIII, xxi(2), p. 241; APC , ii. 312; viii. 98; Berks. N. and Q. i. 5; CPR, 1550–3, p. 54; E. Ashmole, Berks. i. 59–60; information about the mint from Dr. C. E. Challis.

Parlimentarian

DUNCH, William (c.1508-97), of Little Wittenham, Berks.

Main residence: Little Wittenham, Berks.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

DUNCH, William (c.1508-97)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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