Cromwell, Walter
Birth Name | Cromwell, Walter |
Gramps ID | I81903 |
Gender | male |
Age at Death | about 59 years |
Events
Event | Date | Place | Description | Notes | Sources |
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Birth [E138202] | about 1457 | England |
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Death [E138203] | 1516 |
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Burial [E138204] | Wimbeldon Churchyard |
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Parents
Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
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Father | Cromwell, John [I81898] | BET. 1430 - 1440 | 1480 | |
Cromwell, Walter [I81903] | about 1457 | 1516 | ||
Brother | Cromwell, John [I81901] | about 1460 |
Families
  |   | Family of Cromwell, Walter [F44081] | ||||||||||||
Children |
Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
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Cromwell, Katherine [I117706] | 1477 | |
Cromwell, Thomas [I173943] | 1485 | |
Cromwell, Elizabeth [I173941] | 1487 |
Narrative
Walter succeeded his father at the fullingmill on the Wandle; for when the lease, originally granted to John Cromwell expired in 1473, it was renewed in favor of his son Walter, who added to the business of a fuller of cloth several other kinds of business. He carried on business as a smith, armorer, a brewer and a "hostelry keeper".
In his youth, Walter was apprenticed to his maternal uncle, who was a smith and brewer at Putney, and when his apprenticeship expired, he joined his father in conducting the fulling mill on the Wandle, but did no abandon his original trade as a smith and armorer, and thus he was described in the local records as sometimes as a smith, sometimes as a fuller, and sometimes as a brewer.