Researchng the Eltonhead Line
marianne dillow
Hi Kate,
I missed your posting. Douglas Richardson has advised me that Ann Sutton's parents are Edward Sutton and Anne Stanley but Edward Sutton's parentage isn't known. I just bought Doug's "Plantagenet Ancestry" to help me along. My Family Tree Maker is a "working one" meaning I can add and also delete generations and people that aren't true. unfortunately, most stuff on the intenet has flaws in it and it just gets passed on.
Thanka a lot,
Marianne Dillow
Hi Marianne,
I don't know if you have seen this source yet:
The Visitations of Essex (Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven,
1612; Owen and Lilly 1634)
http://books.google.com/books?id=hqwKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA393&dq=richard+eltonhead+sutton
As you can see, this Visitation places Richard Eltonhead, husband of Anne
Sutton, as the son of William Eltonhead and Anne Bowers and grandson of
Richard Eltonhead and Jennet Gerrard. Richard Eltonhead's wife, Anne
Sutton, is listed as the daughter of an Edward Sutton, but I do not believe
she is the daughter of Lord Dudley, at least according to this Visitation,
because a fact like that would almost certainly have been mentioned.
A Visitation is a great place to begin researching a family, but in and of
itself usually isn't enough to thoroughly establish a pedigree. Good luck
on your research!
Kate
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:49 PM, marianne dillow <
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mdil...@verizon.net>wrote:
> My 9th great grandparents are Martha Eltionhead that married Edwin Conway.
> Martha is the daughter of Richard Eltonhead and Anne Sutton. I am attempting
> to trace Richard Eltonhead's lineage but there appears to be several
> generations going to Henry Eltonhead, first I see of the line.
>
> According to another persons research the following is noted.
> " Parrin, in his Register of Maryland Heraldic Families Pages 273-277 shows
> that family of NORRES or NORRIS family were owners of the manor of
> Eltonhead. The origins of the NORRES family became Eltonhead and started in
> Sutton, Lancashire, England before the beginning of the reign of Henry III."
>
> " In his comment on Eltonhead, Sir william Norres of Speke affirms that
> there were families in Sutton who had once carried the name of Norres but
> had given it up."
>
> " The Eltonheads original crest was on a window in Chidwell Church, County,
> Lancashire. It displays the same crest as Sir Henry Norres who married Alice
> of Chester, daughter of Roger de Ernys."
>
> I have as data, Richard Eltonhead was born ca 1582 in Eltonhead, Lancashire
> England and died 23 Sep 1664 in the same location, son of William Eltonhead
> and Anne Bowers. His wife Anne Sutton was born ca 1586 in Rushton,
> Staffordshire, England and died about 1686 in England. She is the daughter
> of Edward Sutton and Theodosia Harrington.
>
> Richard Eltonhead and Anne Sutton had five daughters that came to Virginia
> and a brother William Eltonhead that came to Maryland.
>
> Children:
> i. William Eltonhead born ca 1615 in Lancashire, England and died 14 May
> 1657 in Calvert Co., MD. He was a member of the Maryland Council.
>
> ii. Agatha Eltonhead m (1) Luke Stubbins ; (2) Ralph Wormley, Sr. ; (3)
> Henry Chicheley.
>
> iii. Alice Eltonhead m (1) Rowland Burham; (2) Henry Corbin; 93) Henry
> Creyke.
>
> iv. Martha Eltonhead m (1) Edwin Conway (my grandparents) ; m (2) William
> Stanard.
>
> v. Jane Eltonhead m (1) Robert Moryson; (2) Cuthbert Fenwick.
>
> vi. Eleanor Eltonhead m (1) Col. John Carter; (2) Capt. William Brocus.
>
> Any information on the Eltonhead line are others kin to the ones mentioned
> I would like to hear from.
>
> Marianne Dillow
> Illinois