William Pitkin

1608 - 1643  (35 years)

• Name	William Pitkin
  Birth	11 Jan 1607/08	Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England   [1]
  Christening	11 Dec 1608	Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Abt 1643	St. Dunstan-in-the-West Churchyard   [2]
  Death	24 Jul 1643	Farringdon Without, City of London, England   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I1985	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2018

  
  

  Father	William Pitkin,   b. Abt 1580, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England d. Abt Jan 1644/45, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England (Age ~ 65 years)
  Mother	Jane Mason,   c. 5 Oct 1587, St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London, England d. Abt 1628, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England (Age ~ 40 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1606	Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England
  Family ID	F745	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth [wife of William Pitkin Jr],   b. Abt 1612, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England d. 28 Dec 1641, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England (Age ~ 29 years)
  Marriage	10 May 1637	Thaxted, Essex, England   [1]
  	Thaxted is a town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of northwestern Essex, England. Thaxted appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Tachesteda", Old English for "place where thatch was got". Once a centre of cutlery manufacture, Thaxted went into decline with the rise of Sheffield as a major industrial centre. [4]
  Children	1. Martha Pitkin,   b. Abt 1638, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England d. 13 Oct 1719, Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut Colony (Age ~ 81 years)
  Family ID	F744	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2018

  
  

• Notes

  William Pitkin Jr was educated at Berkhamsted School and Pembroke College Oxford. Received MA from Oxford 17 Oct 1631. Sixth Headmaster of Berkhamsted Grammar School for Boys (est 1541) on 8 Aug 1636, a position which he held for seven years. William and his brother George went to Mr. Sturmey's house in Chancery Lane in London in the summer of 1643 where they became ill possibly with the plague. They died there (six months before their father) George two months after William. Both were buried from Mr. Sturmy's in Chancery Lane. William's burial record describes him as a minister. All his children were born in the headmaster's house and christened at St. Peters Church next door. - Early Colonial Pitkin Family (Research):In the wikitree site St Dunstan-in-the-West is listed as death place. The Guild Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West is in Fleet Street in the City of London. It is dedicated to a former Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is of medieval origin, although the present building, with an octagonal nave, was constructed in the 1830s to the designs of John Shaw.

  
  

• Sources

  [S534] Website, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pitkin-12 modified 17 Nov 2017 Profile managers: Rick Pierpont and John Putnam (Reliability: 3). [S534] Website, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pitkin-12 modified 17 Nov 2017 Profile managers: Rick Pierpont and John Putnam (Reliability: 3). St Dunstan-in-the-West Churchyard, Fleet Street, City of London, Greater London England. Lat 51.5 [S625] England & Wales christening, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.Original data - Genealogical Society of Utah. British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, copyright 2002. Used by permission.Original dat ). [S535] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaxted (Reliability: 3).