Person:John Wheatlye (1)

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John Wheatlye
 
 
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Name John Wheatlye
Gender Male
Marriage to Unknown
Other[1] 1634 Living

He was a mercer. He was also the master warden of the "Company of Mercers, Woollen-drapers, Taylors, Innkeepers, and Fullers" and bailiff (similar to mayor) of the Borough of Daventry in 1619.

References
  1. Hoppin, Charles Arthur. The Bliss book. (Hartford, Connecticut, United States: not identified, 1913)
    pages 158-59.

    'John Wheatlye, the father-in-law of Thomas Blisse, was a mercer and also the master warden of the "Company of Mercers, Woollen-drapers, Taylors, Innkeepers, and Fullers" and also the bailiff of the Borough of Daventry in 1619. The bailiff was the highest officer, similar to mayor. ... John Wheatlye was master warden again in 1634.'

  2.   Hoppin, Charles Arthur. The Bliss book. (Hartford, Connecticut, United States: not identified, 1913)
    page 156.

    'Thomas Blisse, famous as the settler at Rehoboth, Mass. ... married at Daventry, Dorothy, daughter of John Wheatlye, viz.:--
    Anno Domi 1614 Thomas Blisse and Dority Wheatlie both of this pishe maried the 22th of November.
    Wytnes Thomas Mariott minister. John Allen [Warden] [Register of Holy Cross Church, Daventry.]'