DOUGHTY, John (c.1562-1629), of Red Cross, Bristol, Glos.
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Family and Education
b. c. 1562,According to his funeral monument he died aged 67. W. Barrett, Hist. and Antiqs. of City of Bristol, 446. s. of John Doughty, yeoman of Duddlewick, Stottesdon, Salop and Anne, da. of William Holland of Burwarton, Salop. Salop RO, Stottesdon par. reg.; Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxviii), 250.educ. appr. Bristol 1584.Bristol Appr. Bk. transcribed M. MacGregor (Bristol and Avon Fam. Hist. Soc.), iii. 28.m. Mary,Sales of Wards ed. M.J. Hawkins (Som. Rec. Soc. lxvii), 177. 3s. 6da.; 6 other ch. d.v.p. PROB 11/157, f. 116.d. 20 Dec. 1629.Adams’s Chron. of Bristol ed. F.F. Fox, 224.
Offices Held
Freeman, Bristol 1596, Bristol RO, burgess bk. 1557–99, f. 53. common councilman 1606–20,Bristol Lists comp. A.B. Beaven, 287. sheriff 1606–7,List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 168. capt. militia 1612–d.,Bristol RO, Common Council procs. 1608–27, f. 32v; Adams’s Chron. of Bristol, 224. dep. alderman 1612, Bristol RO, Common Council procs. 1608–27, f. 28v. alderman 1620 – d., mayor 1620–1,Bristol Lists, 287. auditor (jt.) 1621,City Chamberlains’ Accts. ed. D.M. Livock (Bristol Rec. Soc. xxiv), 162. constable of Staple 1621–2. Bristol RO, Common Council procs. 1608–27, f. 101.
Member, Newfoundland Co. 1610; A. Brown, Genesis of US, 391. member, Bristol Merchant Venturers by 1618,Recs. Relating to Soc. of Merchant Venturers ed. P.W. McGrath (Bristol Rec. Soc. xvii), 27. master 1623–4. J. Latimer, Hist. of Merchant Venturers of Bristol, 326.