DUCKETT, William (1624-86), of Calston House, Calne and Hartham, Corsham, Wilts.

Family and Education

bap. 23 May 1624, 1st s. of John Duckett† of Calstone and Jane, da. of William Winter of Calford, Glos.Vis. Wilts. 1623 (Harl. Soc. cv-vi), 51. educ. St John’s, Oxf. 3 July 1640; I.Temple Nov. 1641.Al. Ox.; I. Temple Admiss. 310. m. (1) by 1651, Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Henshaw of Kensington, Mdx., 1s. (2) 1655, Anne (d. c. 1667), da. of George Knight, mercer, of Bristol, wid. of Walter Chapman of Bath, 1da. (3) lic. 14 Sept. 1669,E. Neville, Salisbury Marriage Licences, 284. Margaret, da. of Sir Henry Moore, 2nd bt., of Fawley, Berks., s.p. suc. fa. 1648. d. 1 Nov. 1686.G.F. Duckett, Duchetiana (1874), 40-3.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Wilts. 16 July 1650 – 18 July 1654, Mar. 1660 – Apr. 1680, July 1680–d.C231/6, pp. 190, 294; C193/12/3; C193/13/4; HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. assessment, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Maj. militia ft. Apr. 1660; col. by Apr. 1680, July 1680–d.HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. poll tax, 1660; loyal and indigent officers, 1662; subsidy, 1663;SR. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 698. Dep. lt. 1675 – Apr. 1680, July 1680–d.HP Commons 1660–1690.

Civic: freeman, Calne 1685–d.CSP Dom. 1685, p. 535.

Parlimentarian

DUCKETT, William (1624-86), of Hartham, Corsham, Wilts.

: of Calston House, Calne and Hartham, Wilts., Corsham.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

DUCKETT, William (1624-86), of Calston House, Calne and Hartham, Corsham, Wilts.

Will

1 Nov. 1686, pr. 3 Jan. 1687.PROB11/386/4.

Estates

manors of Calne, Calston and Calston Wellington, Hartham, Corsham, and other property in Wilts.VCH Wilts. xvii. 100-1, 124-5. By d. owned houses and lands in Bath, Som.PROB11/386/4.

Oxford 1644

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