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    D'Oyley, Dorothy

    Female Abt 1615 - 1688  (~ 73 years)


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    • Name D'Oyley, Dorothy 
      Born Abt 1615  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Died Oct-Nov 1688  Christ Church, Southwark, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I09111  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 29 Apr 2015 

      Father D'Oyley, John,   b. Mar 1575, Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1639  (Age ~ 64 years) 
      Mother Nicholas, Lucy,   b. Abt 1585, Of Manningford, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1620  (Age ~ 36 years) 
      Married 11 Feb 1606/07  St Dunstan's in the West, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F01371  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Welles, Samuel,   b. Aug 1614, St Peters, Oxford, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1678, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 63 years) 
      Married 01 May 1637  St Michaels, Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F03023  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • IV. Dorothy D'Oyly, married in 1637 to the Rev. Samuel Welles, A.M. the noted Puritan divine, vicar of Banbury in Oxfordshire; son of William Welles of St. Peter's, Oxford, where he, Samuel, was born. Aug. 1614, and brought up in Magdalen College; A.M. 1636; ordained 1638; Regimental Chaplain to Col. Essex in 1644; Rector of Remenham, co. Berks, 1647, whence in 1648 "he accepted of a call to Banbury." In 1649 the Rev. Samuel Welles was one of the principal persons concerned in a protest against Charles I.'s murder, and continued at Banbury till 1662; when he was ejected as a Nonconformist. He afterwards, however, returned to that town, and remained there till his death.-This Welles was an amiable man, cheerful, liberal, and generous; and it was said of him, by one who heard him preach, "that the ears of his audience seemed chained to his lips."[457]-Dorothy his wife had borne him ten children before 1662, and was then pregnant of the eleventh; she was alive in 1674.-One of their children was named D'Oyly Welles; and he was a legatee in the will of his relative Ursula, sister of Sir John D'Oyly of Chislehampton, Bart.

        Will of Dorothy Wells or Welles, Widow of Christ Church, Surrey 24 November 1688 PROB 11/393

        Text: 27 May 1660 Welles D'Oiley s of Samuel, minister Book: Text: 05 Dec 1662 Welles Hannah d of Samuel Book: