Cork - Becher, John *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Cork Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Jenny Stiles jstiles@optusnet.com.au July 31, 2011, 9:54 pm BECHER, JOHN Source: Unavailable Portrait of John Becher, Mayor of Bristol circa 1721. Additional Comments: John Becher [1 September 1677 Co Cork-9 July 1743 Stapleton, Bristol, England], the eighth child and seventh son of Colonel Thomas Becher and Elizabeth Turner. John was apprenticed in Bristol where he became a succesful merchant and Mayor. He married twice, fistly to Hester Duddlestone with whom he had 8 children, and secondly to Mary Cranfield with whom he had 7 children.