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- About Sir William Forman
Sir William Forman was Knighted on October 18, 1537, and was an Alderman in Parliament form Cripplegate Ward in the City of London from 1529 to 1545. He was High Sheriff of London in 1533 and Lord Mayor from 1538 to 1539. During a Muster of Citizens in 1539 he rode in a procession and carried a coat of black velvet embroidered with a cross; on his head was a black velvet cap with a rich jewel; and about him rode four footmen apparelled in satin hose and fine white silk. By trade Sir William Forman was a haberdasher. In 1544 he, with others, leased from King Henry VIII the Manor of Tullesworth in Surrey. In the same year, on August 30, he married Blanche Palmer, a widow, of London. He died on January 13, 1547, and was buried in the Church of Saint George, Botolph Lane, in kEast Cheapside, London. A monument was erected there to his memory. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/o/r/Stephen-D-Forman/
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from Thomas Halloway's paper on Forman History.
The Foremans are of English extraction. Their known roots reach to Lincolnshire, in eastern England.
A William Forman, found in records of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, was the father of
SIR WILLIAM FORMAN, a haberdasher whom King Henry VIII made High Sheriff of London in 1533. On October 18, 1537, he was knighted, and in 1538 served as Lord Mayor of London (the ceremonial head of London?s commercial center). He also served as a Member of Parliament. SIR WILLIAM FORMAN died on January 13, 1547, and was buried at the Church of St. George on Botolph Lane in London.
He left several sons, the eldest of whom was also named William. The younger William was a merchant in London during the early part of his life, but later returned to Lincolnshire.
He had several sons, one of whom was named Robert. This Robert also had several sons, including one named WILLIAM who became a vicar in Buckinghamshire.
This Reverend WILLIAM had a son named Robert, who probably was born in Lincolnshire about 1605. This man, Robert Forman, is the family?s American progenitor.
Sources: William S. Horner, This Old Monmouth of Ours, (Freehold, New Jersey: Moreau Brothers, 1932);
William Forman Wyckoff, ?The Formans of Monmouth and Middlesex Counties,? Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Volume 6, 1917;
Anne Spottswood Dandridge, The Forman Genealogy, (Cleveland, Ohio: The Forman-Bassett-Hatch Company, 1903);
William P. Forman, Records of the Descendants of John Forman, (Cleveland, Ohio: Short & Forman, 1885);
Henry Chandlee Forman, The Formans of New York, (Decatur, Georgia: Published by the Author, 1945);
Elbert Eli Farman, The Foreman-Farman-Forman Genealogy, (New York: T.A. Wright, 1911);
George Lipscombe, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, (London: J. & W. Robins, 1847);
Sir Henry St. George, Knight, The Visitation of London, (London: The Harleian Society, 1880).
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Abt 1510 - 1547 (~ 37 years)
