Likely Duplicitous Transactions of 1668 & 1669 Between Elton

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Likely Duplicitous Transactions of 1668 & 1669 Between Elton

Legg inn av Gjest » 15 nov 2005 21:24:02

Even though these transactions fall outside the time frame of the medieval
period, they do involve a family that many use in their ancestry to access a
medieval lineage.

It is well known from VCH Lancaster that the Eltonhead family in Sutton,
Lancashire, suffered for their royal allegiance, and this is further confirmed
on page 148 of House of Commons Journal (1802), Vol. 7, in which it is shown
that the lands and estates of Richard Eltonhead the younger & Eltonhead the
elder...in the County of Lancaster were to be inserted into a bill for the sale
of lands forfeited to the Commonwealth for Treason ~ Friday, 2 July 1652.
From this time on the family was in decline as evidenced by the successive
estate inventories of the heads of this family [one on 16 Dec. 1664 and the next
on 10 Mar. 1687/8] as transcribed in Transactions of the Historic Society of
Lancashire and Cheshire For the Year 1956 (Liverpool, 1957), Vol. 108, pp.
60-62.

It appears that Charles Calvert, Esq., Governor of Maryland, took advantage
of the financial straits by having Richard Eltonhead, Esq., of Eltonhead in
Lancashire, claim the 2000-acre manor granted to William Eltonhead (1615-1655)
"as Brother & next heire to him the said William" in 1668 and then
purchasing Eltonhead's interest in the Maryland manor for a mere L50 [see Archives of
Maryland, Vol. 57, pp. 439-444]. This bold fraudulent transaction reveals
the desperation of the head of the Eltonhead family and the ruthless
acquisitiveness of the Calverts [much like their Stuart patrons]. I say fraudulent
because Richard Eltonhead was William Eltonhead's cousin, not his brother.
William's record of christening from the registers of the Church of St Bride,
Fleet Street, London, clearly show him to be a son of John Eltonhead, Esq., of
the Middle Temple, who was a younger brother of the previous head of the
Eltonhead family.

William Eltonhead, Esq., died testate in Maryland, being executed on 25 Mar.
1655 by the Puritan faction after suffering defeat at the battle of the
Severn. He made bequests of land to the children of his cousin, Jane (Eltonhead)
Moryson-Fenwick, and made his wife the heir to his bountiful landed estate.
Her descendants by her previous marriages contested the Calvert's usurpation
of William Eltonhead's legacy. This can all be followed in the
multi-volumed Archives of Maryland.

pj.evans

Re: Likely Duplicitous Transactions of 1668 & 1669 Between E

Legg inn av pj.evans » 15 nov 2005 23:02:10

ToddWhitesides@aol.com wrote:
Even though these transactions fall outside the time frame of the medieval
period, they do involve a family that many use in their ancestry to access a
medieval lineage.


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\> William Eltonhead, Esq., died testate in Maryland, being executed on
25 Mar.
1655 by the Puritan faction after suffering defeat at the battle of the
Severn.

<snip>

Say what? This doesn't quite parse.

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