GAMULL, William (aft. 1571-1643), of Bridge Street, St. John’s, Chester.

Family and Education

b. aft. 1571, 2nd s. of Edmund Gamull (d.1616) of Chester, alderman and merchant and his 1st w. Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Case of Eaton, Cheshire; bro. of Thomas*. m. (1) Eleanor (d.1615), da. of William Cotgreave of Chester, alderman, 2s. 2da.; (2) Francesca, da. of Anthony Grosvenor of Dodleston, Cheshire. Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. xviii), 268-9; Vis. Cheshire (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lviii), 103-4. d. Apr. 1643. Harl. 2129, f. 86v. sig. Will[ia]m Gamull.

Offices Held

Freeman, Chester 1598, Freemen of Chester ed. J.H.E. Bennett (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. li), 79. common cllr. aft. 1598 – 1602, sheriff 1602–3, J. Hemingway, Hist. Chester, 233; Cheshire Archives, AB/1, f. 272. sheriffs’-peer 1603 – 05, alderman 1605–d., Cheshire Archives, AB/1, f. 287. mayor 1608 – 09, 1620–1, Cheshire Archives, AF/8/2; CR60/83, f. 37; Hemingway, 233. auditor 1616, 1619; Cheshire Archives, AB/1, ff. 336v, 349v; AF/11/4. adm. of the Dee, 1608 – 09, 1620 – 21; j.p. Chester 1608–d.; Cal. Chester City Mins. ed. M.J. Groombridge (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cvi), p. xiii; Harl. 2129, f. 86v. commr. subsidy, Chester 1621, 1624, C212/22/21, 23. sewers, 1627, C181/3, f. 237v. recusants, Northern counties 1635, 1638. T. Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 1, p. 58; pt. 2, p. 162.

Parlimentarian

GAMULL, William (aft. 1571-1643), of Bridge Street, St. John’s, Chester.

Main residence: Bridge Street, St. John's, Chester.

Author

C.R.K.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

GAMULL, William (aft. 1571-1643)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

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