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Chapter 8 – The Dutton Family
Chapter 8 ends with Lady
Eleanor Dutton , who married Robert Needham , an
ancestor of “our” Bryan family. This chapter also includes Peter (Piers)
Dutton, who was an ancestor of the Booth family and Edwina “Dicey”
Malinda Booth .
Richard de St. Saveur
was the father of Neil de St. Sauvier.
Neil de St. Sauvier I
was the father of Roger de St. Sauvier.
Roger de St. Sauvier
was the father of Neil de St. Sauvier II.
Neil de St. Sauvier II was born about 1000
AD in France, and according to some scholars, he is the first of this
line who can be documented. He married Adela d’ Eu , and their
children included Richard de St. Sauvier and Ivo Viscount of Cotentin
.
Ivo Viscount of Cotentin was born about 1026 in Normandy, France. About 1042 he married Emme, Countess of Bretange ,
in Normandy, France. Emme was born about 1026 in Bertange, Normandy, France, the daughter of Count Geoffrey of Bretange and his
wife Hedwige . Count Geoffrey of Bretange was the son of
Richard I Sanspeur, 3rd Dude of Normandy, and his second
wife, Gonnor de Crepon (See Chapter 9). Odard was a son of Ivo Viscount
Of Cotentin and Emme, Countess of Bretange.
Odard (or Hodard) , first Lord of
Dutton, was born in Normandy, France, about 1046. He and his five brothers came into England with their great uncle, William the Conqueror, and settled
at the town of Dutton, a large part of which was given to him by Hugh
Lupus , Earl of Chester. About 1066 in Chester, England, Odard married Alice Dutton , and Hugh Fitzodard
, Lord of Dutton, was their son. Descendants of Odard and
Alice took the name of Dutton as their surname. Odard’s sword
became a family heirloom.
The name “Dutton” is from the
Saxon word duntune, which means, “town on a hill.”
Hugh Fitzodard , Lord
of Dutton, was born in Cheshire, England, about 1096. About 1127 in Cheshire, England, he married Alice Pichard . Alice Pichard
was born about 1106 in Cheshire, England, the daughter of Nicholas Pichard . Hugh de Dutton
was the second Lord of Dutton and was the son of Hugh Fitzodard
and Alice Pichard . Hugh Fitzodard died in 1130 in Cheshire.
Hugh de Dutton , son
of Hugh Fitzodard , Lord of Dutton and Alice Pichard
, was born in Cheshire, England, about 1128. He married Alice Prescott , who
was born about 1132 in England. Hugh de Dutton became the third Lord of Dutton.
Hugh Dutton , son of
Hugh de Dutton and Alice Prescott , was born in Cheshire,
England, about 1152. He became the 4th Lord of Dutton.
About 1170, he married Isabell de Massey , born in Lindsey, England, about 1155. Their son was Hugh Dutton , 5th
Lord of Dutton.
Hugh Dutton , 5th
Lord of Dutton, was born about 1172 in Cheshire, England, He married Muriel le Despencer, daughter of Thomas
le Dispenser, about 1211 in Cheshire, England. When Hugh and Muriel married, her father gave
Hugh the town of Bollington in Maxfield hundred, Cheshire. Hugh
Dutton built Poosey Chapel. Muriel le Despencer was born about
1181 in Cheshire, England. Hugh Dutton , 5th Lord of Dutton,
died after 1234.
Thomas de Dutton , 7th
Lord of Dutton, was the son of Hugh Dutton and Muriel le Despencer
. He was born about 1214 in Cheshire, England, and he married Phillippa de Standon , born about
1220 in Standon, England, daughter of Vivian de Standon . Thomas de Dutton
inherited Dutton at the death of his brother, Hugh. He became Sheriff
of Cheshire, and died about 1272. Children of Thomas de Dutton
and Phillippa de Standon were Margaret Dutton and Hugh de
Dutton .
Hugh de Dutton , 8th
Lord of Dutton, was the son of Thomas de Dutton and Phillippa
de Standon . He was born about 1251 in Cheshire, England. About 1271 he married first Margaret de Risley (ca 1254
– before 1275) in Cheshire. Hugh de Dutton married second Joan
de Saint Peter about 1275. Hugh built a foot-bridge at Acton for
the abbot of Vale-Royale. Hugh died in 1294 in Cheshire, England.
Hugh de Dutton , 9th
Lord of Dutton, was the son of Hugh de Dutton and Joan de Saint
Peter . He was born December 8, 1276, in Cheshire, England, and Christened on December 9, 1276, in Great Budworth, Cheshire,
England. He married first Isabella Massy , and second Joan
(Jane) de Holand in Lancashire, England. Joan de Holand was born in 1290 in England, the daughter of Sir Knight R. de Holand (born ca 1253) and
Elizabeth de Salmesbury (born in 1256 in England). Hugh de Dutton died in 1326, and Joan de Holand
died after 1347.
Thomas Dutton , 10th
Lord of Dutton, was born in 1314 in Cheshire, England, the son of Hugh de Dutton and Isabella Massy
. Thomas was knighted in 1326, and he was keeper of Haulton Castle.
He married first Ellen (Eleanor) Thornton , daughter of Sir
Peter Thornton and Lucia Hellesby (Helsby), about
1334, and he married second Phillippa Thornton . Ellen (Eleanor) Thornton
was born in 1316 in Thornton, Cheshire, England. Thomas Dutton died May 4, 1381.
Edmund Dutton , son of
Thomas Dutton and Ellen (Eleanor) Thornton , was
born about 1341 in Cheshire, England. Edmund married Joan (Jenett) Minshull in
Cheshire, England, in 1366. Joan Minshull was born about 1340 in Lords
Church, England, the daughter of Henry Minshull and Tibota de
Pulford . Edmund Dutton and his wife, Joan Minshull
, owned the manors of Church Minshull and Ashton. Edmund Dutton
died after 1381 in Cheshire, England. Children of Edmund Dutton and Joan Minshull
included Hugh Dutton (see below) and Peter (Piers) Dutton
(See Chapter 5), so the Carsons are descended from Edmund
Dutton two different ways.
Hugh Dutton , son of
Edmund Dutton and Joan Minshull , was born in Cheshire,
England, in 1369. Hugh married first Petronell de Vernon
about 1398 in Cheshire, England. Hugh became Sheriff of Cheshire. Petronell de
Vernon was born in 1383 in Cheshire, England and died after 1431. Hugh Dutton married second Emme
Warren . Hugh died in 1440.
John Dutton , son of
Hugh Dutton and Petronell de Vernon , was born in Cheshire
in 1399. He became Mayor of Chester in 1451. John married Margaret
Atherton , daughter of Sir William Atherton and Elizabeth
Pilkington , about 1427 in Atherton, England. Margaret Atherton was born about 1410 in Atherton,
England and died in 1454. John Dutton died after 1461.
Sir Knight Peter Dutton
was born in 1428, the son of John Dutton and Margaret Atherton
. He married Elizabeth Grosvenor , daughter of Robert
Grosvenor and Janet (Johanne) De Chedell , in 1464.
Elizabeth Grosvenor was born in 1430 in Hulme, Cheshire, England and died after 1469.
Peter Dutton , son of
Sir Knight Peter Dutton and Elizabeth Grosvenor , was born
in Cheshire, England, about 1465. He married Elizabeth Fouleshurst , daughter
of Sir Knight Robert Fouleshurst , about 1479 in Crewe, Cheshire,
England. Elizabeth Fouleshurst was born about 1454 in Crewe,
Cheshire, England. Peter Dutton died before April 8, 1502, and after
his death, Elizabeth Fouleshurst married Thomas Leicester..
Piers Dutton , Lord
of Dutton, was the son of Peter Dutton and Elizabeth Fouleshurst
. He was born in Cheshire, England, about 1497. He married Eleanor Legh about 1500
in Adlington, Cheshire, England, and they had at least ten children. Eleanor Legh
was born about 1480 in Adlington, Cheshire, England, and after her death, Piers Dutton married Julian
Poyns. Piers Dutton died August 17, 1545.
Hugh Dutton was born
about 1502 in Cheshire, England, the son of Piers Dutton and Eleanor Legh
. He married Jane Booth , daughter of Sir Knight William Booth
, in 1521 in Dutton, Cheshire, England. Jane Booth was born in 1500 in Barton, England and died in 1569 in England. Hugh Dutton died before 1545, before his father,
in England. Hugh and Jane had two children, John and
Anne. Anne Dutton married Christopher Holford , son of Jane Booth’s
second husband.
Jane Booth, above, was
a sister of John Booth, who married Margery Dutton, daughter of Piers
Dutton and Eleanor Leigh.
John Dutton , son of
Hugh Dutton and Jane Booth , was born in 1538 in Cheshire,
England. He married Elinor Calveley , daughter of Hugh
Calveley and Elinor Tattenhall , in 1560 in Lea, Cheshire,
England. Elinor Calveley was born about 1540 in Lea, Cheshire,
England. John Dutton died January 30, 1608.
Thomas Dutton , son of
John Dutton and Elinor Calveley , was born in Cheshire,
England, in 1568. He married Thomasine Anderton about 1593
in Anderton, England. Thomasine Anderton was born about 1567 in Anderton,
England. She married first John Singleton of Stany, Lancashire,
second Thomas Dutton, and third Anthony St. John . Thomas Dutton
died about December 29, 1614, and was buried at Great Budworth, Cheshire,
England. He willed Odard’s sword, which at that time had
been in the family at least 500 years, to Sir Gilbert Gerard.
Lady Eleanor Dutton ,
Vicountess of Kilmorey, was the daughter of Thomas Dutton and
Thomasin Anderton . She was born in Cheshire, England, in 1596. She married first Gilbert Gerard, and second Robert
Needham (See Chapter 7) on October 31, 1636. Lady Eleanor
Dutton died March 12, 1666, at age 69.
References: 339, 340, 397
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