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Timothy Balderston

 

Timothy Balderston was named executor of his father's will. He became a successful weaver in Norfolk. He was a freeman in the powerful worsted weaver guild in Norwich. A "Freeman" meant that he was no longer apprenticed to anyone and could make his living and could marry as he chose.

 

Norwich was, at this time, an important region in the production and sale of woolen materials. Timothy was an important man in the trade and actually was made a freeman of the City as a member of the worsted weaver guild in 1614 without having first been an apprentice.

 

Timothy was married at least two times. He first married an Agnes, and they were parents of Elizabeth, John, Timothy, Richard, Katherine, John, BARTOLOMEW, Frances, Ann and Mary. His second wife was named Ann, and they perhaps had two more children, Timothy and Anne. Timothy died in 1638 in Norwich, shortly after his return trip to Holland. In his will, he named his oldest daughter Katherine, his daughters Frances Wenn and Anne, his three married sisters, his brother Richard, and his sons Timothy, Bartholomew, and John.

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