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VENN: Matric. pens. from QUEENS', Easter, 1605. Of London. Perhaps s. of Sir William, of Bramhall, Cheshire. Bapt. at Stockport, Aug. 5, 1586. B.A. 1607/8; M.A. 1611. R. of Didsbury, Lancs., 1612-39. Buried there Mar. 18, 1638/9. Father of Edward (1650). (Earwaker, I. 438.)
Forename is provided by J. Booker, A History of the Ancient Chapels of Didsbury and Chorlton, Chetham Soc., vol. 42 ((1857), 54,72.
Bur. at Didsbury, 18 March 1638[/9]: 'Mr Davenporte minister of the Church of Didsburie'.
He was certainly Curate there by 1619, and possibly as early as 1612. His inventory, dated 15 Aug. 1639, returned goods and chattels worth £66/14/5, including £17/15/4 in books.