Mayor Nickolas BABBS

1510 - 1550  (40 years)

• Name	Nickolas BABBS
  Prefix	Mayor
  Born	1510	Guildford, Surrey, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1550	Guildford, Surrey, England
  Person ID	I4645	Main
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2012

  
  

  Family	Eleanor PARKHURST,   b. Abt 1516, Guildford, Surrey, England
  Married	Abt 1536	Guildford, Surrey, England
  Children	+ 1. Hellen BABBS,   b. 1546, Guildford, Surrey, England ,   d. 31 Oct 1614, Beccles, Suffolk, England  (Age 68 years)
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2012
  Family ID	F1733	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Threlfall, John B. Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & their Origins. (Madison, Wisconsin: J.B. Threlfall, 1990), 285-286, 297. Nicholas Babbs is first heard of in 1539 when he appears on the list of "Harnes appoyntd within the towne of Guldeford"; Constable in 1541, Flesh and Fish Taster in 1542, along with another man, 1544 on the jury, 1545 on the list of approved men indicating he had been a Bailiff, same year named as an Affeerer (an official who assesses fines and fees not already standardly fixed), 1545 Bailiff again, and same year listed as a fishmonger for the whole of Lent for which privilege he was assessed 6d. His burial record says he had been Mayor of Guildford. The family attended the church of Saint Mary, Guildford's oldest church, still standing on Quarry St.; 6 ch. by _abbs: Richard, Henry, Margaret, Helen, Nicholas, Edward (posthumous).