Alington
John Higgins
not the best of sources) shows John Alington of Horseheath (d. 1480), who m.
Mary Cheyne (or Cheney), and lists his parents as Sir William Alington (d.
1459) and Elizabeth, dau. of John de Argentine and Margery, dau. of William
Calthorp. But I've now heard from off-list correspondence with other
Gen-Med members that John's father may actually be John (not Sir William)
also d. 1459 and that Margery Calthorp was the wife and not the
mother-in-law of the father of the younger John.
Can anyone in the group clear up this discrepancy and provide a better
source for the Alingtons? Thanks in advance for any help....
John Higgins
"Who begot whom is a most amusing kind of hunting" - Horace Walpole
JKent...@aol.com
of what should be the same basic name? They tell me that no people by the
name of Arrington ever lived in the community of Arrington, England. Where did
these people come from?
Jno
Al Magary
Good question: where *did* they come from? There is no single
Arrington in England. Here are 14 villages in several counties
(some duplicated within the same county), with some of the
ancient/variant spellings, from Ekwall's Concise Oxford
Dictionary of English Place-Names (4th ed., 1960):
East Allington, Devon: Alintone, Allyngton
Allington, Kent (nr Maidstone): Elentune, Elentun
Allington, Wiltshire (nr Chippenham): Allentone, Alinton,
Alynton
Allington, Dorset: Adelingtone, Athelington
Allington, Lincolnshire: Adelingetone, Adelington
Allington, Wiltshire (nr Devizes): Adelingtone, Alingeton
Allington, Hampshire: Ellatune, Aldinton
Allington, Wiltshire (nr Amesbury): Aldintona
Allington, Kent (nr Lenham): Alnoitone, Almodentune,
Eilnothinton
Arrington, Cambridgeshire: Earnnington, Ermingtune,
Earningatone
Harrington, Cumberland: Halfringtuna, Haverinton, Hafrincton,
Haveringtuna
Harrington, Lincolnshire: Haringtona, Harintun, Harinton,
Harminton,
Harington
Harrington, Northamptonshire: Arintone, Hetheringtone,
Hetherington
Harrington also = Hetherington, Northumberland: Hetherinton
Cheers,
Al Magary
Chris Phillips
John Higgins wrote:
> An Alington pedigree in Watney's ancestry of the Wallop family (admittedly
> not the best of sources) shows John Alington of Horseheath (d. 1480), who
m.
> Mary Cheyne (or Cheney), and lists his parents as Sir William Alington (d.
> 1459) and Elizabeth, dau. of John de Argentine and Margery, dau. of
William
> Calthorp. But I've now heard from off-list correspondence with other
> Gen-Med members that John's father may actually be John (not Sir William)
> also d. 1459 and that Margery Calthorp was the wife and not the
> mother-in-law of the father of the younger John.
>
> Can anyone in the group clear up this discrepancy and provide a better
> source for the Alingtons? Thanks in advance for any help....
I did research these Alingtons in depth a few years ago.
I've put an outline pedigree online at
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/families/ali/aliindex.shtml
I've provided only a summary list of sources on the web pages, but the
version you quote from Watney is correct, and these connections are well
documented. (Apart from anything else, the Alingtons were certainly the
heirs of the Argenteins.)
There is also a much more detailed treatment of the Argenteins, which
includes information on the Calthorpe connection:
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/families/arg/argindex.shtml
Chris Phillips