NameWilliam * OF SYSTON251
Birth1460, Syston, Devonshire England
Death1538, Cossington, Leicestershire England
OccupationButcher251
FatherJohn * WEBSTER (ca1434-)
Unmarried
Children
Birth1485, Cossington, Leicestershire England
Deathbef 1558, Cossington, Leicestershire England
Notes for William * OF SYSTON
Gedcom import file gives death date as ca 15021

From gedcom file submitted by Robert David Pedrin:251
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[v33t1441JudyWeb.FTW]
William Webster of Syston, butcher, became a freeman of Leicester in 1502/3; this enabled him to sell his meat in Leicester without paying a heavy toll. It also laid upon him responsibilities, notably those of fair trading and of contributing a reasonable amount of the borough expenses. His eldest son, John, took up his freedom in 1509\10, when he would probably be in his early twenties. He paid the Lay Subsidy in Syston in 1524 and his name appears on the Musters there in 1540.

Source: The Ancestry of Governor John Webster, by Mrs. S. H. Skillington, published in The American Genealogist (entire number 96), Vol. XXIV, No. 4 (October 1948).
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