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Stephen Kirton - was born about 1500 in England.
He is the son of John Kirton and Margaret White.
Stephen married Margaret Offley about 1522.
Margaret was born about 1500 in England.
She is the daughter of William Offley and Elizabeth Dillorne.
Stephen -
| email from Jonathan Kirton - Feb 2007 |
Jonathan Kirton
Stephen Kirton, who heads your chart, was born at Christchurch, Hants., in about 1501. This information comes from his own will, which I have had transcribed. He married his wife, Mrs. Margaret Nicholls (nee Offley) in Staffordshire in 1521. By about 1527 he was living in Edmonton, Middlesex, but later lived in Limestreet Ward of the City of London, and was a Freeman and an Alderman of that City. He was a Merchant of the Staple at Calais, and was a very wealthy man. In 1552 he purchased the Manor of Thorp Mandeville, Northamptonshire but never actually lived there himself.
He died in London on the 16 Aug., 1553, and was buried at St. Andrew Undershaft Church on 19 Aug., 1553. Thomas Kirton, second son of Stephen and Margaret, above, was born at Edmonton, Middlesex in 1537. (There had been an earlier Thomas, born at Hillfarrance, Somerset; a twin, born in 1523, but this earlier Thomas had died in childhood.) He lived in London, and held the legal post of "Common Serjeant of the City of London." His elder brother John never married. Thomas married Mary Sadler, daughter of John Sadler also of Edmonton, who was also an alderman of the City of London. Thomas inherited the Manor of Thorp Mandeville, Northants., and died there on 20 April, 1601, and was buried in the Parish Church there the next day, the 21 April, 1601. There is a superb memorial to him and his family, carved in relief, showing him facing his wife, with his sons behind him, and his daughters lined up behind his wife, those sons and daughters which had survived to adulthood; three sons and five daughters, although thay had had a total of 6 sons and 6 daughters during their marriage. Mary, his wife, had predeceased Thomas in 1597, when she was aged 60.
You next show their daughter MARY KIRTON, as having been born in Epping, Essex in 1566. Can you please provide me with some proof of that statement ? I have the baptism / birth dates of Mary's three surviving brothers: William, bapt. 1576; Edward bapt. 1577; and Stephen (2) born in 1580, and Mary was certainly the eldest daughter, but 1566 does seem to be a bit early ? This would mean that she would have been aged about 36 years old when she married Robert Raynesford, which you say occurred in 1602. My guess would be that she married at a younger age. She certainly died on 15 April, 1629. One of my reasons for writing is that if you do have proof of a Mary Kirton baptized in Essex in 1566, she may be a different Mary Kirton, and that would be of very great interest to me, because I am hot on the trail of a Kirton family living in Essex at about that time, namely the descendants of William Kirton, the elder brother of the Stephen(1) Kirton mentioned above ! |
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Helen Kirton was born about 1520.
Helen married Richard White before 1542.
Richard was born about 1519 in Minot, Somerset, England.
He was the son of Thomas White.
He died May 1578 in Hill Farence, Somerset, England .
See White family for children.
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