GEORGE FYTCHE

GEORGE FYTCHE
George was born in Bocking in the early 1540s, about 1544 or 1545. Like three of his brothers he was a merchant and clothier. He is referred to as a mercer who was a dealer in fabric and clothing. Bocking was a major center of woolen manufacturing at the time. As Braintree grew as a town, George moved there.
From the 1570s on, George continued to buy land in Braintree, or Branktre as it was then called. He married Joan Thurgood in Little Canfield on September 14, 1574. Joan was a daughter of Nicholas Thurgood of Eisenham, Essex.
In 1598 he bought land in Great Henny in the eastern portion of Essex County. About 1600, George bought lands and moved to Sudbury just across the line in Suffolk County. It appears George opened a more general purpose clothing store in Sudbury.
Joan died about the time of the move to Suffolk County. About 1602, he married Bridget, widow of first John Goss and then of John French. They were married in Edwardstone just east of Sudbury. Bridget died August 29, 1603 and George married another widow, Joane Taylor about 1604.
George died in the spring of 1605. He wrote his will on May 12, 1605 and it was probated in Court on June 18th of that year. He was living in the town of Edwardstone at the time.
George and Joan Thurgood Fytche had five children.

THOMAS FYTCHE the eldest son is our line


GEORGE FYTCHE JR. was born in the 1580s. He died unmarried in 1614.

JOSEPH FYTCHE was born about 1587 and graduated from Cambridge University. He was the first of the family to attend college. He graduated in 1606. I know nothing more of him.

ARTHUR FYTCHE was a child when his father died. He was apprenticed out to learn a trade according to the terms of his father's will.

FRAUNCES FYTCHE seems to be the only daughter. She married James Stracey.