Family and Education
1st s. of Walter Tucker of Lyme Regis (d. c.1645). m. lic. 10 May 1618, Elizabeth (bur. 12 Nov. 1662), da. of Geoffrey Waltham alderman of Exeter and Exminster, wid. of Richard Bellamy, freeman of Exeter, 5s. 2da. bur. 12 Oct. 1643 12 Oct. 1643. PROB11/193/10; Devon RO, Chanter MS 42, f. 240; Exeter Freemen, 116, 119; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 772; St Mary Arches, Exeter, par. reg.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Exeter 19 Sept. 1617; common cllr. ?-d.; bailiff, 1623 – 24, 1632 – 33; sheriff, 1633 – 34; mayor, 1638 – 39; alderman, 22 Oct. 1639–d.Exeter Freemen, 119; R. Izacke, Remarkable Antiquities (1734), 54, 150, 153, 155; Devon RO, Exeter City Archives, Act Bk. viii. ff. 78, 93, 152v.

Religious: churchwarden, St Mary Arches, Exeter 1624 – 25; feoffee, 14 June 1637–d.St Mary Arches par. reg.; Devon RO, 332A/P49A.

Local: treas. French Co. of Exeter merchants, 1635 – 36; gov. 1639–40.W.B. Stephens, ‘The Officials of the French Company of Exeter in the Early Seventeenth Century’, Devon and Cornw. N and Q, xxvii. 113. Commr. tendering oaths of supremacy and allegiance, Exeter 7 Feb. 1641;Devon RO, Exeter City Archives, charters and letters patent, CIII. oyer and terminer, 8 July 1641.Devon RO, Exeter City Archives, charters and letters patent, CII. Member, cttee. for Exeter, ?1642–7 Sept. 1643.Devon RO, Exeter City Archives, Letters 391.

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Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

TUCKER, James (d. 1643), of Exeter and Exminster, Devon.

Will
10 June 1643, pr. Feb. 1644.PROB10/641/41 f. 73; R. Izacke, An Alphabetical Register (1736), 154.
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Oxford 1644
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