Two contemporary men named William Eltonhead ~ 1600s

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Two contemporary men named William Eltonhead ~ 1600s

Legg inn av Gjest » 24 nov 2005 06:30:02

I have relied in the past on R. G. Rankin's 1955 article "The Eltonhead
Family" with its pedigree that shows that William Eltonhead, Esq., of Maryland,
was a son of John Eltonhead, sergeant-at-law, and therefore not a brother of
Jane (Eltonhead) Moryson-Fenwick but her cousin.

But I have evidence now that John's son William and William of Maryland were
two distinct individuals.

John Eltonhead had a son William christened on 13 Apr. 1615 at the Church of
St Bride, Fleet Street, London. This William could not be the William of
Maryland who was executed in 1655, because William Eltonhead, sergeant-at-law,
made a will 13 Jul. 1654 which was recorded 22 Mar. 1662, making his father
John Eltonhead, sergeant-at-law, his executor and apparent sole legatee.
These entries from the Register of Temple Church, London, obviously refer to this
family:

Elizabeth, wife of John Eltonhead, one of the maisters of the bench of the
honourable society of the Middle Temple, esquire, buryed in Temple church neere
the communion table on the Middle Temple syde, the 17th of February, 1646
(/47).

William Eltonhead of the Middle Temple, esq., was buried in the body of the
church near unto the clarke's seat, March 17, 1661 (/62).

John Eltonhead, esq., sergeant-at-law, was buried in the body of the church
neare the pulpit on the Middle side, the thirtieth day of July, 1662.


So apparently the land transactions I posted earlier this month showing
Richard Eltonhead, Esq., of Eltonhead, Lancashire, selling his interest in his
brother's Maryland estate to the Calverts, are actually an indication that Jane
(Eltonhead) Moryson-Fenwick and her siblings in Virginia were indeed sisters
of the full blood to William Eltonhead (d. 1655), Esq., a manorial lord in
Calvert County, Maryland, and a member of Lord Baltimore's Privy Council.
This William Eltonhead was, like his sister Jane (Eltonhead) Moryson-Fenwick, a
Catholic as he was called one of "them Papist dogs" in 1646 [Archives of
Maryland 10:229].

Cristopher Nash

Bold/Savage/Beke/Swinnerton (—>Eltonhead)

Legg inn av Cristopher Nash » 27 nov 2005 02:54:01

Todd, Brice and others interested in the question re the sorting of
relevant John Savages, this passage from an article on Aston Munslow
and Munslow may be of interest ?

Munslow had been subinfeudated by 1255, when the terre tenants,
evidently coparceners, were John de Chandurs, Nicholas Seymour, and

Ermyntrude, a daughter of John Hertwell, son of John Hertwell, the
late terre tenant of Aston. They held Munslow of a mesne lord,
William de Venables, whose tenure was evidently resumed by the chief
lord before 1285. Ermyntrude's daughter Agnes conveyed her share to
Seymour and his wife Alice. Seymour predeceased Alice, who was in
sole possession of their Munslow estate by 1285. She conveyed it to
Robert de Beke and his wife Maud, Ermyntrude's sister; (fn. 57)
Robert and Maud presumably possessed John de Chandurs's share, for by
1316 Robert was sole lord of Munslow. (fn. 58) Maud predeceased him
c. 1324 (fn. 59) and by 1348 his son Nicholas de Beke (kt. 1348, d.
1369) was lord. (fn. 60) Sir Nicholas's heir was his daughter
Elizabeth, who married and predeceased Sir Robert Swynnerton (d.
1386). (fn. 61) After Swynnerton's death Munslow seems to have passed
to their daughter and heir Maud Peshall. (fn. 62) Maud's second
husband (from c. 1388) was William Ipstones (d. 1399), (fn. 63) whose
father Sir John (d. 1393) had Munslow manor, apparently as Maud's
feoffee. (fn. 64) After William's death Maud may have had only a
third of Munslow; in 1404 she and her third husband John Savage
conveyed a third of the advowson to John Burley, (fn. 65) tenant in
chief of the manor. The other two thirds of the manor may have passed
in 1399 to William's daughters and coheirs Christine and Alice (fn.
66) and were apparently later acquired by Burley.)< [British
History Online <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?
compid=22866>]

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