William NOYES
Biography

William Noyes was born about 1568, probably in Urchfont, Wiltshire, England, the son of Robert Noyes of Urchfont and his wife, Joan Attridge. William attended University College, Oxford in 1588 and received his degree in 1592. Around the time William started at Oxford, his father purchased from John Thorneburgh, the patron of the parish of Cholderton, the right to advance one of his sons to the rectory of Cholderton diocese when it next became vacant.

William succeeded to the rectory of Cholderton diocese in 1601. In April, 1622, William died, intestate, in Choulderton and was buried in the churchyard of St. Nicholas’ Church at Choulderton. An inventory of his estate was taken on April 30. William's son Nathan then became the rector of Cholderton and continued until his death in 1651. The parish register of Cholderton for the years of William's and Nathan's rectory has been lost.

Some say that William married, in England, 1595, Ann Stephens, the sister-in-law of the Puritan Robert Parker, who was driven to Holland for non-conformity, then she died about 1605 and William married Ann Parker, sister of Robert Parker. This makes sense, he would have known Ann Parker through his first wife. If that is true, Ann Stephens could be the mother of William’s oldest children, Ephraim, Nathan John and a daughter. An indication that this is a possibility is that when Ann Parker Noyes, widow of William Noyes, wrote her will in 1656, she mentioned sons James and Nicholas in New England and her daughter who married Robert Read, ignoring William’s older children who still lived near her in England. It is certain that William did marry Ann Parker and that she is the mother of James and Nicholas.

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