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From: Renia <>
Subject: Re: Descents From Edward III For Slingsby Bethell, Lord Mayor ofLondon 1655
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:24:17 +0300
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Brad Verity wrote:
> On Apr 16, 3:19 pm, Renia <> wrote:
>
>>Brad Verity wrote:
>>
>>>Slingsby Bethell (1696-1758), a sugar merchant in London,
>>
>>Different Slingsby Bethel to that in the subject line.
>
>
> Dear Renia,
>
> Do you have any further information? Was the Slingsby Bethell who was
> a sugar merchant perhaps Slingsby Bethell (bap. at Kirkby Overblow 7
> May 1657), uncle of the Slingsby Bethell who became Lord Mayor of
> London? I don't know much about the uncle Slingsby, except that he
> and his wife Sarah had a daughter Frances, baptized at St. Botolph
> without Aldgate, London 27 Nov. 1698.
>
> Cheers, -------Brad
>
Slingsby Bethel, the Lord Mayor of London of your subject line, was Lord
Mayor in 1755, not 1655.
His namesake, another Slingsby Bethel (1617-1697), the son of Walter
Bethel and Mary Slingsby was the brother of Hugh Bethel who married
Frances Frankland and of Willaim Bethel who married Bridget Bourchier.
Their father Walter died in 1623. This Slingsby Bethel married Mary Burrell.
He was Sheriff of London in 1680 but is sometimes referred to
erroneously as Lord Mayor of London. He famously appears in John
Dryden's poem, Absalom and Achitofel.
http://www.engl.niu.edu/dbywaters/412/Absalom2.html
As to any other Slingsby Bethells, I know nothing of them but I do know
a little of the earlier Bethel and Frankland families.
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