Origins Brewood (Breude) in Staffordshire, England, at the time of Doomsday (1080-90) is noted as being in the ownership of the Bishop of Chester. Subsequently Brewood became part of a Royal Forest. In the 17th century William Carlos hid there in an Oak tree with Charles II. and was buried there. In the 18th Century Samuel Johnson
(? ) 1709 - 1784 was tutor there to the Fowke which had inherited Brewood following the marriage of Elizabeth, the daughter & heiress of [Missing XREF c-wybaston69218] (recorded in the Herald's Visitations of Staffordshire) to Roger Fowke
(Wybaston ) liv. 1438. |
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