Philip. This is what I have. He was my 11 x g.grandfather.
William Dameron, born about 1505 in Westerfield, Ipswich, the eldest son of John Dameron (1478-1548) and Joan Mynter (abt 1482-1564). He died in Westerfield in 1558 and was buried on 1 March 1558 in Westerfield. He was a church warden and a yeoman. I have to say that his will states he was a yeoman, no mention of being a church warden, but I don't suppose he thought that was important. I visited the church in Westerfield and, (I can't find my notes), I think his name must have been shown on a board there as being a church warden.
His will made on 8th February 1558 talks about his lands and tenement dwellings (which seem to be houses rather than tenements as we think of them), some of which he'd rented out. One was Westerfield Manor which he acquired in 1552 and passed to his eldest son, John (my 10 x g.grandfather). In his will he mentions his sons John and George, his daughters Agnes, Elizabeth, Mary, his nieces Johane (who became my 9th g.grandmother and from a Chancery File in 1601, she was considered mentally incompetent, fatua et ideota and because of this she had given lots of her goods and chattels away!) and Cecilie Dameron (daughters of his son John), his godson Edmond (son of George), his godson Robert Mynter, his godson William Baker, and finally his wife (but no name given). Witnesses were George Payne, Robert Medowe, Christopher Barricke and one other. Probate was given to John Dameron on 6 October 1559.
As his eldest son was born about 1531, I assume William must have married around 1529 or so but the parish registers, or Boyds Marriage Indexes for Suffolk, don't seem to start until about 1539. I did contact Suffolk archives a few years ago but they couldn't find a marriage in their records.
