Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants 2Nd Edition: Volume 2

By Harrison Dwight Cavanagh

Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants Harrison Dwight Cavanagh

First edition awarded the Sumner A. Parker Prize by the Maryland Historical Society in 2014.

The second edition of this work features all descendants of Thomas Gantt I (b. Bullwick, N. Hants; to Md. 1654; d. Calvert Co. 1692) and Ann Fielder (b. ca. 1662 Hants; d. PG Co. 1726) in the first six to ten generations.

Ann Fielder is an important new addition to American colonial GATEWAY ancestors. Her parents, Capt. William Fielder (ca. 16201679) of Burrough Court Manor and Marjorie Cole (16281699) of Lyss Abbey, Hants, have proven multiple royal and magna carta ancestral lines; sixty extensive British pedigrees are documented in these volumes. The name Fielder has been inherited in multiple generations of the Beall, Belt, Berry, Bowie, Calvert, Clagett, Denwood, Dorsett, Gantt, Jones (Somerset Co.), Parker (Cal. Co.), Smallwood, Smith (Cal. Co.), and Wight (White) Maryland families.

In addition, this second edition contains important new research findings on the British origins of the Hatton-Domville and Brooke-Darnall families, as well as revealing the two lost Ann Bradfords of PG Co.

Colonial Chesapeake Families details the pedigrees of eighty-eight families, historical illustrations, portraits, documents, and coats-of-arms (where proven) are included.

Publication of these volumes has been subsidized to make them more widely available to the thousands of descendants listed in their pages. And thanks to print on demand, Colonial Chesapeake Families will never go out of print.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524575335

Harrison Dwight Cavanagh

Harrison Dwight Cavanagh, M.D., attended MIT and went on to complete his A.B. and M.D. degrees at Johns Hopkins University, and Ph.D. at Harvard University. During a career spanning more than 46 years as an eye surgeon, visual scientist, and educator, Dr. Cavanagh has served on the medical faculties of Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Emory, Georgetown, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He currently lives with his wife Lynn Gantt Cavanagh in Dallas, Texas, and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Dr. Cavanagh has a lifelong interest in colonial history, genealogy, poetry, philosophy, Japanese culture, and Zen.

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CONTENTS

a.   Dedication

b.   Commonly Used Abbreviations

c.   Preface To The Second Edition

d.   Preface To The First Edition

Chapter 11 American And English Families Allied By Marriage And Their Coats Of Arms

Chapter 12 I. Ancestral Pedigrees Of The Dering-Cole And Fielder Families Of Hampshire

II. Royal And Magna Carta Ancestry Of Capt. William Fielder (Ca. 1620–1679) Of Burrough Court, Hampshire

COLONIAL CHESAPEAKE FAMILIES

British Origins and Descendants

Vol. 2

Winner of the 2014 Sumner A.

Parker Prize (Maryland Historical Society)

Harrison Dwight Cavanagh Second Edition 2017

To my four Gantts:

Lynn, Cate, Page Claiborne,

and Brooke Cabell

With love

and

to the memory of their

father, grandfather, and great-grandfather,

Col. Henry Perkins Gantt

(1894–1983) (USMA, August 1917)

of

Holly Rod, Gloucester Point, Virginia,

who exemplified his Gantt heritage:

Duty… Honor… Country

COMMONLY USED ABBREVIATIONS

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

The author acknowledges with gratitude the award of the 2014 Sumner A. Parker Prize by the Maryland Historical Society for the first edition of this two-volume work.

A second edition is being published at this time to place on the record important new information documenting definitively that Anne (Fielder) Gantt was a Fielder of Burrough Court Manor, Hampshire, who has recently been accepted as a MD/USA Gateway ancestor qualifying her thousands of descendants for membership in various lineage societies, including Americans of Royal Descent and Charlemagne or Magna Carta descendants. This new information not only has further confirmed that Anne’s mother, Marjory Cole (1628–1699) of Liss Abbey, Hampshire, has such proven multiple lines of descent but also has revealed that her father, Capt. William Fielder (ca. 1620–1679) of Burrough Court Manor, does as well. And despite ongoing diligent searches, the author has not yet been able to find another colonial American immigrant with proven lines of royal descent in both paternal and maternal lines.

Importantly, the new edition also documents and reports on the lives and descendants of the two forgotten/lost Ann Bradfords of Prince George’s County. The first is Ann Darnall, a heretofore undocumented third daughter of Henry Darnall II and his wife, Ann Digges, who married ca. 1727 John Bradford Jr., son of Col. John Bradford (d. 1726 testate) of Prince George’s County and his wife, Ann² Gantt, daughter of Thomas Gantt I (d. 1692 testate) and his second wife, Ann Fielder (d. 1726 testate). Their daughter, the second Ann Bradford, married Jesse Wharton of Notley Hall, St. Mary’s County. Their eldest son was the Reverend Henry Wharton, SJ (b. 1748), whose published conversion to the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1794 became a matter of great public controversy.

Also included in the updated volume 2 of the new edition is a section on the Dorsett family of Prince George’s County. This information establishes the identity of the four wives of Col. Fielder Dorsett of PG County, including his first marriage in England previously unreported, as well as a multigenerational genealogy of this family.

Additionally, the author has added very important new findings establishing the English origins of the early Maryland settlers, the Hattons of Lymm Cheshire reported by Mr. Robert Good. The Lymm Hattons intermarried with the old Norman family of Leigh-Domville, which has a proven descent from Edward I of England previously verified by Mr. Douglas Richardson. Eleanor Hatton (1640–1725), who emigrated with her mother in 1649 and married firstly in 1658 Major Thomas Brooke (1632–1676) and secondly, ca. 1677, Col. Henry Darnall (1645–1710), became the great-grandmother of Thomas Gantt III (1686–1765) and an important matriarch of many other Southern Maryland Colonial families.

Chapter 12 includes a new pedigree documenting the descent of Ann Fielder from Margaret of Scotland (eleventh century) through the Litton (Lytton) and Borlase families. Sections on the Haut family and Pluckley-Surrenden have also been updated.

The author also expresses his sincere thanks to Ms. Marcia Mattingly, indefatigable researcher of the Bradford-Lancaster lines, for much new and valuable information now included in the second edition, with similar thanks to Mr. Robert Lumsden for important information on the later generations of descendants of James⁴ Gantt (George³, Thos.¹–²), which is also included.

Very special thanks are also due to Mr. Nathan Murphy for his invaluable contributions to the revised and expanded chapter four in volume one, and Mrs. Felecia Sowels for her help with the volumes’ manuscript preparation. Final thanks are extended to Ms. Jennifer Roemer for her inestimable help as manuscript editor for both volumes of the second edition.

Discerning readers will note that the author has subsidized both editions. This allows the cost for purchase of the e-book, softcover, and hardcover volumes to remain as low as possible for all descendants who wish to learn of their distinguished heritage. Also, publication by Xlibris through print-on-demand ensures that both volumes will never go out of print, or become unavailable.

Finally, since the author will not be undertaking any further new editions, he again reaffirms his sincere gratitude and thanks to all who contributed to either or both publications. Ave atque vale.

H. Dwight Cavanagh, MD, PhD

July 22, 2016 (76th natal day)

Dallas, Texas

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

This history began as a small pedigree assembled as a birthday gift for my late father-in-law, Col. Henry Perkins Gantt (1894–1983) of Holly Rod, Gloucester Point, Virginia, on his seventy-second birthday, 29 April 1966. With continued research over the past forty-seven years, it has grown to encompass the history of nearly the complete descendants of Thomas Gantt (ca. 1634–1692), transported to Maryland in 1654, and his second wife, Ann Fielder (ca. 1662–1726), through at least the first six generations, and, in many lines, extending down through the eighth and succeeding ones as well. In a project of this enormous size and scope, there are bound to be errors and omissions, which the author leaves to future historians of the family to correct, as well as to extend and continue the narrative. Where critical, probative information is sourced to original archives, but the sheer volume of data makes this by necessity incomplete.

Because of the unexpected but highly robust royal antecedents of Ann Fielder, the author has documented her ancestry as comprehensively as possible for the benefit of her many thousands of descendants.

This work, as all such projects, would be impossible without the help of many others over the years. To paraphrase the esteemed nineteenth-century French scientist Prof. Claude Bernard, l’art c’est moi; la science (genealogy) c’est nous. Special thanks (alphabetically) go to the following individuals who supplied information and valuable advice:

Mr. Robert Barnes; Christine Bergen (Mrs. Russell J.); Mr. Lloyd Bockstruck; Mr. Michael C. F. Bullen, Esq.; Ms. Pamela Buttrey; Mr. Brice M. Claggett, Esq.; Ms. Sharon Doliante; Eleanor Lewis Ebert (Mrs. James B.); Faern Cabell Ferneyhough (Mrs. Rev. James); Ms. M. J. P. Grundy; William Andrew⁹ Horsley Gantt II; Mr. Richard⁹ Gantt, Esq.; Mrs. Donovan Hall; Mrs. Frances P. Hauser (Fielder³ Gantt); Mr. Stephen Hoffman; Mr. Andrew Keller; Mrs. Leroy A. Keller (Price⁷ P. Gantt); Ms. Sarah A. Lewis; Ms. Jane W. McWilliams; Ms. Mary K. Meyer; Ms. Joanne Lovelance Nance; Mr. Richard L. Nicholas, Esq. (Albermarle Gantts); Mr. George Ely Russell; Mr. William Franklin Smith (Highlands, Calvert Co.); Mrs. P. N. Snyder (Priscilla⁵ Belt); Ms. Emily Stanton (historian and archivist, Jefferson Co., West Virginia); Judge Charles Stein Jr., Esq.; Mr. Aubrey Warsask; Dr. Rachel Weems; and Ms. Shirley Wilcox (a fellow founding member of the PG Co. Genealogical Society).

Deep appreciation and thanks also go to the author’s English researchers: Henry E. Paston-Bedingfield, Esq., York Herald, Royal College of Arms, London (Fielder and Cole families); Dr. Alison M. Deveson (historian), Whitchurch, Hampshire (the Fielders and Coles of Hampshire); Mrs. G. M. Turner (archivist, PRO, Hampshire) and her assistant, Rhian Light (Fielder, Cole); Ms. Sarah Bridges (archivist, PRO, Northamptonshire) and her assistants, Elinor Winyard and A. Norton (Gantts); and Ms. Susan Campbell (archivist, Worcester, PRO, Worcestershire) and her assistant, Ms. Victoria Harrison (Gaunts of Highfield, Leeke, Rowley Regis, and Old Swinford Parishes).

The author also acknowledges with great thanks the inestimable help of Ms. Cynthia Jenkins in preparing this manuscript.

Needless to say, any errors in interpretations of their contributions are the responsibility of the author.

Perhaps the most unexpected and certainly interesting finding in this family history is the origin of the name Fielder or Feilder, which has pervasively infiltrated so many Southern Maryland colonial families. Certainly every experienced Maryland genealogist must have wondered at some time where this unusual name originated and why it so proliferated (Gantts, Wightts, Claggetts/Clagetts, Dorsets, Bowies, Bealls, Jones, Smiths, Calverts, etc.) to the present day without clear explanation of its significance in any of the old families’ published records. Of even greater interest, however, is the striking antecedent history of the Fielders of the Manors of Burrough Court and Polling, Hampshire, which connects through the Dering-Cole families of Liss Abbey, Hampshire, via the bar sinister to the founder of the Tudor dynasty himself and thence back to most of the great medieval English houses as well as to (at least) four separate Plantagenet lines through the De La Warre-West and Cotton of Combermere Abbey (Chester Co.) pedigrees.

Unfortunately, there also may be much herein that will not be welcome findings to past chroniclers of the Gantt family. There is no Grahame of Claverhouse connection and no missing Edward father of Thomas II. The family did not originate in the English midlands but from the tiny village of Bulwick in Northamptonshire. There is no probable connection to the arms of the earls of Lincoln, but ironically, there is a proven line from the founding matriarch, Ann Fielder, to Gilbertus de Gant of Flanders, nephew of William the Conqueror. Ann³ Gantt, daughter of Thomas II, did not marry John Brome IV (1703–1749) of Calvert Co.; she married Dr. Thomas Denwood (ca. 1705–1763) of Somerset Co. Her sister Priscilla³, who has lamentably been left out of all published accounts to date, married firstly Capt. William Finch Jr., mariner, and their daughter Phoebe married Mordicai Smith of Highlands, Calvert Co.; Priscilla married secondly Allen Bowie and became an unrecognized major early ancestress of that notable family, bringing with her the Fielder name to both lines. George³ Gantt (Thomas²) did not have a daughter Ann; his stepdaughter Ann Whyte married Thomas Harwood. Henry⁵ Wright Gantt (ca. 1762–1837) (John⁴, Thomas ¹-³) did not marry and bury four successive Weems wives (the Weems Bluebeard); he married only three and left children by each of them. One Gantt died in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Insane in Washington, D.C.; another was a real eighteenth-century stand and deliver highwayman, while another was a Lasker Medical Prize awardee nominated for a Nobel Prize, and yet others had notable military careers:

Col. Thomas⁵ Tasker Gantt, adjutant general, Army of the Potomac; Col. Henry⁷ Perkins Gantt, CSA, who led the Nineteenth Virginia Infantry in Pickett’s Charge on the third day at Gettysburg and lost his eye and teeth; Lt. Levi⁶ Gantt, who was KIA in the Mexican-American War (1847) storming the fortress of Chapultepec in Mexico City; Col. Frederick⁷ Hay Plantagenet Gantt, CSA, who – serving with his two brothers⁷– commanded the Eleventh SC Infantry, Hagood’s brigade, Lee’s army of Northern Virginia; Brig. Gen. Edward⁶ Williams Gantt (born ca. 1826 in Columbia, Tenn.; d. 1872 in Little Rock, Ark.) commanded the Arkansas Brigade (Eleventh and Twelfth Arkansas Infantries); and Col. Henry⁸ Perkins Gantt (1894–1983; USMA 1917 of Holly Rod, Gloucester Point, Va.), who served his country for forty years in two world wars. Many Gantts have also been the bulwark of the Anglican and later Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland: Thomas John Claggett (1743–1816), first bishop consecrated in the United States at Trinity Church in New York City in 1792 and buried with his wife, Mary Gantt (Edward³, Thos.¹-²) in the Bethlehem Chapel crypt of the National Cathedral; the Reverend Edward⁵ Gantt (Thos.⁴ ye³rd, Edward³, Thomas ¹–²), rector of All Saints and Christ Church, Calvert Co.; the Reverend/MD Edward⁴ Gantt (1742–1837; MD Leyden, Holland 1767 [Thos.¹–³], chaplain of the Senate [1801–1806], the first White House physician); Rev. John Gibson Gantt (1855–1933); Rev. Chesley Gantt (1884–1908); and Rev. John Hamilton Chew (d. 1885), rector of St. Albans Church, Washington, D.C.

In addition to the Gantt family, there are numerous other important Southern Maryland and Virginia colonial families that (and individuals who) became closely allied with the Gantts and also among themselves during the past four hundred years. Some of these (Weems, Greenfields, Stodderts, Cavanaghs, Williams⁸) have not yet been published, while for others (Brookes, Cabell-Horsleys, Lee-Fearns), there is new research information available, particularly concerning their British origins. For others such as the prominent Parker families of Calvert County, there has been confusion about their different branches and generational assignments, resulting in currently inaccurate published histories. The pedigrees of all these eleven families are given at length herein, inclusive of (at least) the first four generations; and, where possible and appropriate, portraits and coats of arms are also illustrated. Accompanying these longer pedigrees are those of sixty-eight other Chesapeake colonial families, tracing from their original settlers and back (where known) to their British origins: Alexander, Bland, Beall, Berry, Blake, Bocock, Bond, Bonderant, Boone, Bowie, Bradford, Broome, Boyd, Butler, Cadwalader, Carroll, Chapman-Pearson, Clagett, Claiborne, Compton, Cullen, Denwood-Covington, Dorsey, Dunscomb, DuVal, Eltonhead, Elzey, Eversfield, Ewell, Gittings, Glover, Graves, Hall, Hay, Heighe, Hilleary, Holdsworth, Keene, King, Lewis, Mackall, Moore-Weems, Nelson, Parrott, Perkins, Reynolds, Roberts, Semmes, Skinner, Smith of Highlands, Sprigg, Stoughton-Sloss, Tasker, Tryon, Waring, Wheeler, Wight (White), Winder, Wright, Wortham, Worthington, Wood, and Young-Smith (Halls Creek).

There is also significant new information concerning the later generational migrations of these Chesapeake colonial families, which should be of interest to those researching these lines, such as the heretofore undocumented Maryland colony in Hickman and Maury counties, Tennessee, consisting of a mini Who’s Who of Southern Maryland family descendants in the fourth or fifth generations (Gantts, Clagetts, Tylers, Stodderts, Dents, Greenfields, Primms, Weems, and others), who settled there in the early nineteenth century (1810–1820).

Finally, chapter 12 exposits a comprehensive compilation of fifty-seven ancestral British pedigrees of theCole, Dering, and Fielder families, with sourcing to the English records that collectively document the royal and other antecedent ancestors of Ann Fielder, matriarch of so many Southern Maryland and later Virginia colonial families.

The author hopes that each descendant of whatever colonial family will enjoy the lively cavalcade through the centuries of the histories of their ancestors and recall the excellent maxim of the noted English statesman and parliamentarian Mr. Edward Burke: "A worthy ancestry is a stimulus to a worthy life."

H. Dwight Cavanagh, MD, PhD

June 25, 2013

Dallas, Texas

St. William’s Day

Birthday of

William Edwards Cavanagh

(1905–1991), my father

CHAPTER 11

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH FAMILIES ALLIED BY MARRIAGE AND THEIR COATS OF ARMS

1. THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH, HAMPSHIRE, AND ENGLISH ANTECEDENTS

Brooke Arms: Chequy or and azure, on a bend gules, a lion passant of the first (Crest: a demi-lion rampant or erased gules)

Twyne Arms: Argent, a fesse, embattled, sable in chief two estoiles of the last (Crest: a cubit arm, erect, holding in the hand proper two snakes, the heads contrariwise, the tails entwined and knotted around the arm, azure)

The VCH of Hampshire (4: 299–305) records that Whitchurch is a parish of 6,367 acres located in Evingar Hundred on the river Test about 13 miles from Newbury in Berkshire (notable site of two Civil War battles) and about 12 miles from Winchester. From medieval times, the area has been noted for sheep and grain agriculture. The tiny town was a borough of Winchester and sent its first two elected representatives to Parliament in 1586. Until passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, it was known as a rotten borough, with the members not elected but chosen by the nomination of an absentee landlord who had no residence in the community.

There were two manors in Whitchurch from ancient times (Whitchurch and Cole Henley), neither or portions of which were ever held by the Brooke family.

years of wedded life to Elizabeth Twyne, sister and heraldic heiress of John Twyne. For a superb and more detailed account of this, see Brooke by Ms. Marty G. P. Grundy, (rootsweb.ancestry.com/paxson/ southern/brooke), which cites recent seminal contributions to the history of the Brooke family origins. In a pedigree held in the internal records of the College of Arms but not published in the Harleian Visitation Series dated 1622, Richard’s¹ grandson Thomas³ (Thos.²) attested that Richard was the son of a Robert Brooke who was the third son of a Thomas Brooke of Leighton, Cheshire. Unfortunately, there is no evidence yet discovered to support this assertion, and the finding that the Brookes of Cheshire blazoned entirely unrelated arms (Brooke of Leighton, 1580, Cheshire Visitation, Quarterly 1, 4: or, a cross engrailed per pale Gules and sable [Brooke]; and, 2, 3: argent, a chevron sable between three bucks’ heads caboshed gules [Parker]) is strong and compelling evidence against the claim. Further research is required. What is beyond dispute is that, after marrying the heiress Elizabeth Twyne in 1552, Richard Brooke first appears in the Hampshire records in 1561 as a gentleman.

In his early adult years, he served as a steward to Sir Thomas White (1507–1566), MP (1547–1559), of South Warnborough, Hampshire, who was knighted in 1553; Sir Thomas served as the master of the court of requests (1553–1558). Prospering economically and documented in his will proved 6 May 1594 by his widow, Elizabeth, Richard Brooke went on to acquire by leaseholds a property in Winchester (freehold held by the Church of the Blessed Trinity), a knoll with woodlands in Chalgrove and Freefolk, and the Manor of West Fosbury. He also owned and passed to his son Thomas, in his will, his lease of Parsonage Farm in Whitchurch, which was owned by the monastery of St. Cross in Winchester, which held the freehold. Richard¹ also owned in his own right other freelands and tenements in Whitchurch and Freefolk, which he left to his wife, Elizabeth (died 20 May 1599), for her lifetime. Their youngest son, Robert, a wealthy London goldsmith, erected an elegant brass funerary monument in All Saints Church to his parents’ memory. This monument clearly showed the Twyne arms impaling Brooke as heraldic evidence of their marriage and showing that Elizabeth was the heraldic heiress of her brother; the Brooke-Twyne arms were appropriately quartered, however, on the funerary monument of their second son, Thomas² Brooke (1561–1612), located on a granite plinth in the church.

Elizabeth (Twyne) Brooke’s exact descent is not specified in either the Harleian Society Visitation of Hampshire or in William Berry’s County Families (1833; pp. 222–223). Using those sources as a starting point, however, the best working hypothesis as to her parentage is given as follows, and the matter will need further research.

1.1 TWYNE

Arms: Argent, a fesse embattled sable, in chief two etoiles of the last

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Crest: A cubit arm erect, holding in the hand proper two snakes, the heads contrariwise, the tails entwined and knotted around the arm, azure

The name Twyne or Twine derives unambiguously from the old Saxon language Tweoxneam, meaning land between two rivers, in this case the narrow area between the rivers Stour and Avon on the coast of Hampshire.

1. Sir Bryan¹ Twine (Twyne) of Longparish in Hampshire married a Ms. Manston (?Manson).

2. Nicholas² Twyne of Longparish married a Ms. Buckland.

3. John³ Twyne of Longparish married a Ms. Manston.

4. William⁴ Twyne of Bullington, Hampshire, married ca. 1500 Joane, daughter of William Pickering.

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Photo courtesy of Mr. Steve Hoffman through the kind office of Ms. M. J. P. Grundy.

Parsonage Farm at Whitchurch, Hampshire, was home of the Brooke family from about 1561, built first half in the sixteenth century as a typical Tudor-era timber-framed dwelling near All Saints Church, which was reclad and expanded in brick in the late seventeenth century and later rebuilt as a three-story hotel (King’s Lodge) in modern times. (King Charles I was hosted by Richard Brooke [d.s.p.] from 18 to 21 October 1644 while on his way to the Second Battle of Newbury in the Civil War.) The original freehold of the property was owned by monks of St. Cross in Winchester.

Issue:

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Issue: first marriage (Mary Baker):

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Thomas⁵ Brooke married firstly by 1681–1682 Ann—; she was alive in 1687 when she witnessed a deed (Prov. Ct. Liber EI, no. 10, f. 265) but was dead by 4 January 1699, when his second wife, Barbara Dent, witnessed a deed (PGLR A:210).

Issue first marriage:

Issue second marriage:

1.2 BAKER

Arms: Argent, a tower, between three keys, erect, sable.

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Crest: On a tower, sable an arm, embowed, in mail, holding in the hand a flintstone, proper.

1. John¹ Baker, of Battle, Sussex, 49 Edward III (1375)

2. Simon² Baker of Battle, eldest son and heir, tempus Richard II, married Joane —— on 11 Richard II (1387)

3. John³ Baker of Battle, eldest son, tempus Henry IV

4. John⁴ Baker of Battle, eldest son, tempus Henry VI

5. John⁵ Baker of Battle, eldest son, tempus Edward IV

6. Henry⁶ Baker of Battle, eldest son, tempus Henry VII

7. John⁷ Baker, eldest son, of Ducking’s or Duckinghouse in Withyham, tempus Henry VIII

8. John⁸ Baker of Battle, eldest son, married Elizabeth, daughter of ?John or ?Richard Isted of Morehouse in Mayfield

9. Thomas⁹ Baker of Battle, second surviving son, called John in the visitation of Sussex in 1634, married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Engham of Goodnestone, Kent (see ENGHAM).

10. Mary¹⁰ Baker, married Robert Brooke (1602–1655) of Whitchurch, Hampshire (see BROOKE for descendants)

1.3 ENGHAM

Arms: Argent, a chevron sable between three pallets, on a chief gules a lion passant guardant or.

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Crest: "Two lions’ gambs or, holding a grenade sable, fired proper."

1. Mores¹ Edingham or Engham, Esq., of Engham in the parish of Woodchurch

2. Thomas² Engham of Engham, Esq., son and heir, married Petronilla, daughter and heir of Thomas Plurenden of Plurenden in Woodchurch

3. William³ Engham, married Johanna, daughter and heiress of Thomas Plurenden of Plurenden, parish of Woodchurch

4. William³ Engham of Engham, Esq., married Avicia (Alice) daughter of —— Home, Esq., of Horne’s Place, Appledore

5. Vincent⁵ Engham of Goodnestone, Kent, married firstly Edith, daughter and heiress to William Goodneston of Goodnestone, Kent

6. Thomas⁶ Engham, Esq., of Goodnestone, eldest son, married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Monins, Esq., of Waldershare. First five generations need proofs.

7. Sir Thomas⁷ Engham of Goodnestone, born ca. 1546 in Kent (Knight, 1619), married Priscilla, daughter of Robert Honywood, Esq., of Charing, Kent

8. Mary⁸ Engham, born ca. 1571 in London or Middlesex, married Thomas Baker of Battle, Sussex (see BAKER for their descendants).

1.4 FORSTER (OF IDEN, SUSSEX)

Arms: Argent, on a bend engrailed sable, three bucks’ heads caboshed or.

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Issue from his will:

1.5 FOSTER ([FORESTER] OF HUNSDON, HERTFORDSHIRE)

Arms: A chevron vert between three bugle horns sable.

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1. Gilbert¹ de Buckton, died 1342, was known as Gilbert Forster because of his position as forester and gamekeeper to the bishop of Durham and lived at Buckton, parish of Holy Island, Durham Co.

2. John² Forster, b. ca. 1316, succeeded his father, Gilbert, as forester and gamekeeper to the bishop of Durham.

3. John³ Forster, son (2), resided at Buckton, Durham Co.

4. Thomas⁴ Forster, son (3), married Joan de Elmeden, daughter of Sir William Elmeden and his wife, Elizabeth de Umfreville, and resided at Buckton, Durham Co.

5. Thomas⁵ Forster, son (4), married Elizabeth de Etherstone of Etherstone Hall and resided at Etherstone, Northumberland.

6. Thomas⁶ Forster, son (5), resided at Etherstone, Northumberland and married Elizabeth Fitzhugh.

Sir Roger⁷ Forster, eldest son (6), was born at Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, about 1502. He was said to have married Joan Hussey of Sussex, daughter of Sir John Hussey (1466–1536), first Lord Sleaford, who was beheaded for treason by Henry VIII. Unfortunately, there was no primary documentation to support this claim. Both John Hussey and his second wife, Lady Anne Grey (1543), left recorded Wills with no mention of Joan, and when the family estate was restored by Act of Parliament in 1563, Joan’s name was not found in the list of his sons and daughters restored in blood by his second marriage to Lady Anne. Author’s note: The first seven generations claimed in the Forster (Foster) pedigree should be treated as tentative, and research is needed.

7. Thomas⁸ Forster, eldest son (7), was born at Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, on 10 August 1530 and died testate there on 11 October 1599. On 20 July 1545, he married Margaret Browning (b. ca. 1530, died 3 April 1625) of Chelmsford, Essex. They were buried in St. Mary’s Church, Hunsdon.

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8. Sir Thomas⁹ Forster, eldest son (8), was born 10 August 1548 at Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, and died testate 18 May 1612 at age sixty-three in London with burial in St. Mary’s Church, Hunsdon, with armorial funerary monument for himself and his wife. He was a judge of the court of common pleas at Westminster and changed his name to Foster. The College of Arms confirmed his blazon in 1604. On 22 July 1575, he married at Iden, Sussex, the heraldic heiress Susan (Susannah) Forster (b. 1551 at Iden, Sussex; died 3 April 1625 in London), who was the daughter of Thomas Forster of St. John Street, London (see Forster of Iden Family for her antecedents).

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1.6 HONYWOOD

Arms: Argent, a chevron between three falcons’ heads, erased, azure beaked or.

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Crest: A wolf’s head, couped, ermine.

Author’s note: Mr. Robert Barnes, in his two notable volumes on the British roots of Maryland families, has provided an authoritative and detailed account of the Honywood-Engham-Baker and Brooke of Maryland connections; a brief outline in summary only is appended here.

1. William¹ de Honywood of Posting, Kent, lived in the reign of Henry I and died in that of Henry II.

2. Thomas² de Honywood, son and heir

3. Edwin³ de Honywood, son of (2) and his wife, Mabilia, daughter of Nicholas de Handlo

4. Pagan⁴ de Honywood, son of (3)

5. Alan⁵ de Honywood, son of (4), tempus Edward III.

6. William⁶ de Honywood, son of (5), married Catherine, daughter and heiress of Thomas Caseborne of Caseborne in Chariton.

7. Allan⁷ de Honywood, son of (6)

8. Thomas⁸ de Honywood, son of (7), served in Parliament representing Hythe, Kent, 20 Henry VI (1442), and died in the reign of Edward IV. He married Mary, daughter of Lancelot Lovelace of Bethersden. (The Visitations and Berry say her father was William, but there is a generational gap problem; William was her brother.)

9. John⁹ de Honywood, son of (8), married firstly Agnes, daughter and heiress of Henry Martin, and secondly Alice Barnes of Wye.

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10. Robert¹⁰ Honywood, son of John⁹ and his second wife, Alice (Barnes) Honywood, was born 1525, Henewood, Postling, Kent; d. 22 April 1576 at Pette in Chaning; February 1543 married Mary, daughter and coheir of Robert Atwater or Waters of Lenham and Royton, Kent. She was b. 1527 at Royton, Lenham, Kent and obit on 16 May 1620, aged ninety-three, and was buried at Markshall, Essex.

11. Priscilla¹¹ Honywood, daughter of Robert¹⁰ and Mary (Atwater) Honywood, was born ca. 1548. Her marriage settlement to Sir Thomas Engham of Goodnestone, Kent, born ca. 1546, was dated 31 October 1567. For their descendants, see ENGHAM.

1.7 LOVELACE

Arms: Gules, on a chief, indented, sables three martlets argent.

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Crest: On a staff raguly, lying fessewise, vert, an eagle displayed, argent.

1. Richard¹ Lovelace of Queenside, London, tempus Henry VI, purchased the Manor of Bayford, Kent.

2. Lance² Lovelace of Bayford in Sittingbourne possessed the Manor of Hever in Kent; obit 1465; married ——, daughter and heir of Eynsham (heraldic heiress): Eynsham: Azure, on a saltire, engrailed argent, five martlets sable.

3. Mary³ Lovelace of Bethersden married Thomas de Honywood, who served in Parliament for Hythe, Kent, 20 Henry VI (1442), and obit in Edward IV. For their descendants, see HONYWOOD.

1.8 HATTON

The Hattons were early settlers of Maryland and staunch supporters of Lord Baltimore. Until recently, their English origins and interrelationships have been disputed; however, the superb research of Mr. William Good has clarified their precolonial and later lines of descent in Maryland (viz.: http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/hatton/). These results have further been extended by M. J. P. Grundy (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/southern/hatton.html).

Because Eleanor Hatton, widow of Maj. Thomas Brooke, was the great-grandmother of Thomas³ Gantt III (ca. 1710–1783), a brief summary of the Hatton pedigree is given here, along with a companion pedigree for the related Domville family of Chestershire.

1. Rev. Robert¹ Hatton I, possibly the son of William Hatton of Hellesby, Cheshire, and his wife, Elizabeth Whitby (buried at Lymm, 11 June 1626; needs proof). He was baptized at Frodsham, Cheshire, on 1 February 1566 (parentage not given); entered Christ Church, Oxford, 15 July 1586 (aged twenty); received his BA 20 November 1591; appointed rector of Lymm Parish, Cheshire, 15 June 1611; and buried there 8 March 1644. His children are listed in the Lymm Register, but his wife’s name has not yet been discovered.

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Maryland Archives; 10: 259:

Deed 1 Dec. 1652:

(1) Whereas Mr. Thomas Hatton as his Lordships Secretary of the Province of Md. having been at great charges on the payment of tobacco for the entertainment of his sister-in-law and her children, the late wife and children of Mr. Richard Hatton, deceased brother to the said Thomas Hatton since their arrival in province and otherwise touching their transportation, we Lieutenant Richard Bankes and Margaret his wife, late widow and relict of the said Richard Hatton, in consideration that he, the said Thomas Hatton have and does release and acquitt us, the said Richard Bankes and his wife of all debts and demand touching the estate of the said Richard Hatton, do fully and absolutely assign and make over to the said Mr. Thomas Hatton his heirs and assigns forever all right and title of land within this province any ways due to the said Margaret for the transportation of herself and her children and servant into this province. Witness our hands this first day of December Anno Domini 1652.

(2) Whereas Lt. Richard Bankes and Margaret his wife the late widow and relict of Mr. Richard Hatton, deceased by their conveyance and assignment of 1 Dec. 1652 for consideration therein expressed did assign and make over to me Thomas Hatton, Secretary of this Province of Maryland…rights of land due to Margaret for transporting into this Province herself, and William and Richard Hatton, her sons, and Barbara, Elizabeth, Mary, Eleanor, her daughters, and John Poryn her servant into this province in 1649…Thomas Hatton makes over to his nephews William and Richard Hatton, sons of Margaret, all rights and titles to said land…500 acres to said Richard and William, who demanded their rights 15 Aug. 1655.

1648, he immigrated to Maryland with his wife, Margaret; his sons Robert and Thomas; and three servants (Md. Land Office; 2: 613). In 1649, his sister-in-law, widow of his brother Richard, joined him with her six children (William, Richard, Barbara, Elizabeth, Mary, and Eleanor) and one servant (Md. Archives; 10: 259). He was commissioned as a councilor and secretary of the province to Lord Baltimore upon his arrival in Maryland in 1648. It has been suggested that he met Cecil Calvert in London through a friend, Thomas Motham, gent, a clerk in Chancery Lane. Thomas² Hatton served in the upper house (1650–51), council (1648–54), justice of the provincial court (1648–54), secretary (1648–54), judge of probate (1648–54), receiver general (1648–51), and attorney general (1650–54). He was a strong supporter of the proprietary and resided at Pope’s Freehold in St. Mary’s County on 1,600 acres. On 29 March 1652, he was removed as secretary by the parliamentary-appointed commissioners William Claiborne, Thomas Stagy, and Richard Bennett to rule Maryland and Virginia under the Puritan government of Oliver Cromwell in London. He was reinstated to office 28 June following until 22 July 1654, when he was again deposed. He was killed fighting with Lord Baltimore at the Battle of the Severn 26 March 1655.

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Author’s note: The Oxford-educated Robert¹ Hatton of Lymm was clearly of good family as was (see below) his wife, Margaret Domville. Unfortunately, there is no solid proof (as yet) of any connection to the armigerous Hatton family of Woodhouse and Hellesby in Cheshire, visited by the heralds in 1580. There is also circumstantial (but not probative) evidence that Richard² and Margaret (Domville) Hatton’s eldest son, William³ (will proved 4 August 1782, in PG Co.), likely married Mary ——, whose will was probated 13 October 1731 in PG Co., and both mentioned a daughter Penelope⁴ Middleton and a grandson Hatton⁵ Middleton, as well as other children. On Hatton Middleton’s inventory in 1733 is found a blurred armorial seal with a chevron on the shield and an indistinct beast’s head in the crest, which are compatible with the Hellesby Hatton arms (Newman, HW, Heraldic Marylandia, Washington, D.C. [1968]; p. 86). More research is needed.