Person:Percival Levett (1)

Percival Levett, Sr.
bur.13 Feb 1625/26 York, Yorkshire, England
m. 1553
  1. William Levett1550 -
  2. Percival Levett, Sr.1560 - 1625/26
  3. Charles Levett1554 -
  4. Mayor Richard Levett1558 - 1618
  5. Charles Levett1562 -
  6. Joan Levett1564 -
m. Est 1577
  1. Anne Levett1578 - 1653
  2. Mercy Levett1579 -
  3. Mary Levett1581 - 1639
  4. Rutherforth Levett1582 - 1584
  5. Grace Levett1584 - 1631
  6. Captain Christopher Levett1586 - 1630/31
  7. Percival Levett, Jr.Abt 1590 - 1654
Facts and Events
Name Percival Levett, Sr.
Alt Name Percival Leavitt
Gender Male
Birth? 1552 or 1560 Harewood, Yorkshire, England
Marriage Est 1577 Yorkshire, Englandto Elizabeth Rotherforth
Burial[2] 13 Feb 1625/26 York, Yorkshire, EnglandSt. Martin-cum-Gregory
Reference Number? Q7167127?
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Percival Levett (1560–1625) was an early merchant and innkeeper of York, England, Sheriff of the city, member of the Eastland Company and father of English explorer Capt. Christopher Levett.

Levett was born in Harewood, Yorkshire, and removed early to the city of York, where he was listed as a freeman in 1581, and where he served the city as chamberlain and subsequently Sheriff in 1597. His daughter Ann married another York Sheriff, Christopher Topham (father of Member of Parliament Christopher Topham), and on his death married Dr. Joseph Micklethwaite.

The ancestors of Percival Levett came from Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, and they shared a coat-of-arms with the Levetts of Normanton, High Melton and Hooton Levitt, Yorkshire, indicating that a cadet branch of the family probably relocated to Bolton Percy during medieval times.

Levett was a contributor from York to the Queen's Loan in 1590. He was a member of the Eastland Company, an English company established in the sixteenth century in an attempt to wrest Baltic trade from the Hanseatic League.

Percival Levett was buried at St. Martin's Micklegate in York on 13 February 1625. Levett had done well enough as a merchant to acquire the title of gentleman, a title he assuredly was born without, and sold his home in Coppergate, in central York, to Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York. Levett's sons, aside from Capt. Christopher the explorer, also became merchants, including his son Percival, a merchant at Beverley and York. Percival Levett's brother Richard Levett was a long-serving mayor of Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

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References
  1.   Percival Levett, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. , in Bulmer, Edward. The parish registers of St. Martin-cum-Gregory, in the city of York. (York: DeLittle, 1897)
    p. 52.

    BURYALLS this present yeare 1625:
    Mr. Parsevell Levitt was buryed the 13 ffeb. in Mr. Gibbons queire.

  3.   Collins, Francis. Register of the Freemen of the city of York, from the city records. (Durham [England]: Andrews, 1897-1900).

    1581
    Percival Levett

  4.   Source: Internet Web Site, GenServ Data Base RYAN6MA.