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William Brereton

William was born in May 1631 in Brereton cum Smethwick and his baptism took place there on May 4th, 1631.¹

Birth Notes
- Name:     Wm Brereton
  Event Type:     Birth
  Event Date:     04 May 1631
  Event Place:     , Brereton-cum-Smethwick, Cheshire, England
  Gender:     Male
  Father's Name:    Wm Brereton
  GS Film number:    2103922
  Digital Folder Number:    004018949
  Image Number:     00922

William's father was William (William II) Lord Brereton and his mother was Rt Hon Elizabeth Goring. His paternal grandparents were Sir John Brereton and Lady Anne Fyton. He had five brothers and seven sisters, named Henry, George, John, John, Richard, Mary, Anne, Elizabeth, Margaret, Elizabeth, Frances and Jane. He was the second oldest of the thirteen children. He died at the age of 48 on March 17th, 1680.

General Notes
- William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton FRS was an English mathematician and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and became Baron Brereton in the Irish peerage in 1664.
  
  William Brereton became an original Fellow of the Royal Society on 22 April 1663. He inherited the Irish peerage Baron Brereton on the death of his father in 1664. In 1668 he gave the rectory of Tilston, near Malpas to mathematician Thomas Branker.

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Sir William Brereton ^*
  - b.~ 1500 d.1534
  
  Sir William Brereton MP
  - b.1521 in Sandbach d.04 Sep 1559
  
  Anne Booth
  
  Lord William Brereton
  - b.06 Feb 1550 in Brereton cum Smethwick d.01 Oct 1631 in Cheshire
  
  Jane Warburton
  - b.~ 1525 d.> 1550
  
  Sir John Brereton
  - b.25 Feb 1591 in Brereton cum Smethwick d.28 Dec 1629 in Cheshire
  
  Margaret Savage
  - b.1549 in Clifton d.07 Apr 1597 in Brereton cum Smethwick
  
  William (William II) Lord Brereton
  - b.28 Feb 1611 in Brereton cum Smethwick d.Apr 1664 in Brereton cum Smethwick
  
  Sir Edward Fyton
  
  Lady Anne Fyton
  - b.Jul 1594 in Cheshire d.Jan 1663 in Brereton cum Smethwick
  
  Dame Anne Fyton
  - d.1643
  
  William Brereton
  - b.May 1631 in Brereton cum Smethwick d.17 Mar 1680
  
  Rt Hon Elizabeth Goring
  - b.1615 in Brereton cum Smethwick d.Dec 1688 in Brereton cum Smethwick
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

Personal Timeline

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