William and Deanes Baker Brewer
At St. Mary, the Virgin parish church at Chard, Somerset, England;
A monument statue shows William and his wife Deanes Baker Brewer, in royal dress except one son, who is in plain Puritan dress. Settler of James Towne. He was a Medical Physician.
Reference to Collinson's Somerset (Vol. II, p. 473) finds mention of their monument in the Parish Church at Chard bearing the Arms, "Gules, two bends wavy, or," and the following inscription:
"Here lieth interred (expecting their Saviour)
the bodyes of William Brewer of Chard, Phisitian
and Deanes his wife, who, living forty years
in Happy Wedlock, in full of age departed this
life, shee dying 8 Nov. 1614 and he 24
July, 1618, having issue only six sons
and five daughters all men and women
growne, and all comforts to them."
The Brewer family could be traced back several generations from their original home of Isle Brewer in Somerset, where the family derived its name. The Brewer family name is written on the immortal "Battle Abby Roll", of Senlac or Hastings, identifying a trusted Lieutenant of William the Conqueror in the year 1066.
The Brewer family starting with Thomas goes back to the earliest Virginia settlement at Jamestown.
Carolyn Lee Harper Johnson