William Woodcock

Male, #38712, (say 1489 - )

Birth*say 1489 William was born say 1489. 
Biography* The Woodcock family was long established in the City of London, where Sir John Woodcock, Knight, presumably an ancestor of William, was Lord Mayor as far back as 1405.
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Stow ("London" [Strype], Book v, p. 116, 175) gives for his arms, "On a bend three cross-crosslets fitche'e", which it should be noted is the coat of arms which Sir Pury Cust has impaled with his own arms as that of his wife Ursula Woodcock (distantly related to the Ursula, wife of John Culpeper) on the monument in St. George's Church, Stamford, which he erected in her memory.
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The proved pedigree of the Woodcocks begins with Ralph Woodcock... He belonged to the Grocers' Company, and according to a pedigree in Harleian MS. 1444, was son of one William Woodcock. He was probbaly also nearly related to a certain Andrew Woodcock, Citizen and Grocer of London, and Master of the Bridge House, whose widow, Dorothy Woodcock was buried at the age of 96, on Septenber 24, 1585, in the church of All Hallows, London Wall, and to whose family manison in this parish, Thomas Woodcock the elder, the son of Ralph Woodcock, appears to have succeeded.
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Source: Lady Elizabeth Cust, "Records of the Cust Family of Pinchbeck, Stamford and Belton in Lincolnshire, 1479-1700". London, 1898. 

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Charts Lew Griffin's Culpepper Ancestry Chart (Great-grandmother Clarissa Eugenia Culpepper Griffin)
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