1. … Croft.
1.1. George Croft.
(1. John Lutley, m. Catherine, dau. of William Jenks (br. of Richard Jenks,* as follows), and Elizabeth, sister of William Adams.
1.1. Adam Lutley.
1.1.1. John Lutley, m. the dau. of John Packington and Elizabeth Newport, sister of Ursula Newport, wife of Thomas Adams, son William Adams and Eleanor Jennyns, cousin of Eleanor Jennyns, b. ca. 1500, who m. Richard Harris, b. ca. 1495. (See as follows).
1.2. Dorothy Lutley (cousin of Thomas Adams), m. George Croft).
1.2. William Crofte, m. Margett Bradborne, June 23, 1560.
1.2.1. Richard Crafte, bapt. Dec. 25, 1561.
1.2.2. William Croft, m. (1) …
1.2.2.1. Richard Croft, bapt.Nov. 24, 1593.
1.2.2. William Croft, m. (2) Katherina Nicols, Dec. 1, 1604.
1.3. Thomas Crofte, m. Katherine Foxall, Nov. 18, 1573.
1.3.1. John Crofte, bapt. Feb. 5, 1576/7, m. Anne Symons, Jan. 7, 1606.
1.231.1. John Croft. Assignment of lease. 1. Wm Walker of Meadowley, yeo. 2. Rd Penson of Lilleshall. Jn Dyos of Roxceter [Wroxeter], yeo. Recital: Lease of 19 April 1649 by Rd Cressett of Upton Cressett, esq., to Edw. Lye and Chas Didlicke of the tenement in t. of Meadowley in which Wm Symons then lived, with lands, etc. belonging, reserving any mines and quarries to Rd Cressett, and fishing, fowling, hunting and hawking. To hold from the death of Wm Symons for 99 years if Jn Croft of Hempton in Chelmarsh, yeo., Jn Cooper and Sarah Cooper, the grandchildren of Wm Symons, lived so long, paying £10 a year. (April 3, 1674. Shropshire Arch.. 5460/4/2/6).
1.3.2. Humphrey Croft, bapt. Feb. 1, 1578/9
1.3.3. Francis Croft. Draft court roll for the court baron of John Weld junior knight, Thomas Whitmore knight bart, Francis Addams and John Huxley gentlemen before Stephen Totty, steward.
Note that it has been enrolled. List of homage and admission of a tenant to Filthouse als Fyllies house in Chelmarsh, conveyed 7 December 1629 by Fraunces Croft to use of his dau. Mary Crofte and her heirs. She m. Mr John London clerk decd. Should she die without issue, the property then settled on Thomas Hem son of Simon Hem of Erdington and heirs. Mary’s death presented at last court. (April 3,1651, Shropshire Archives 1085/3).
1.3.3.1. Richard Croft, bapt. Dec. 21, 1618, m. Ann Nichols, April 19, 1651.
1.3.4. John Croft.
1.3.4.1. William Croft, bapt. March 5, 1619/20, m. Katherine … Queeries for William Craft to answer att the Court Baron and Court of Survey to bee houlden att Chelmarsh
(Nov. 19, 1673. Shropshire Archive, 1085/8).
1.3.4.1.1. William Croft, bapt June 25, 1648.
1.3.4.1.1.1. John Croft, bapt. April 18, 1694.
1.3.4.1.2. Richard Croft, bapt. Oct. 30, 1649.
1.3.4.1.3. John Croft, bapt. April 22, 1656. Croft v Rushbury. Plaintiffs: Jane Croft and William Croft by Edward Wancklyn. Defendants: George Rushbury the elder, George Rushbury the younger and Richard Rushbury. Subject: land and personal estate of the deceased John Croft, in Chelmarsh. (Shropshire. 1698. C 6/329/93).
1.2.4.2. Thomas Croft, bapt. Nov. 9, 1628.
1.3.4.3. Richard Croft, m. Anne …
1.3.4.3.1. William Croft, bapt. Feb. 11, 1666.
1.3.4.3.2. Richard Croft, bapt. Sept. 6, 1678.
1.3.5. William Croft.
1.3.5.1. Richard Croft, bapt. Oct. 5, 1623.
1.3.6. Isabel Croft, m. Richard Overton,* Jan. 31, 1599. (Elizabeth Overton m. Thomas Nichols, Oct. 9, 1575). Richard Overton was the br. of (1) Thomas Overton,* who m. Alice Wood; their son, Thomas, was bapt. June 30, 1595.
1.3.6.1. Thomas Overton, bapt. May 9, 1602.
1.3.6.2. John Overton, bapt. June 24, 1605.
1.3.6.2.1. Anne Overton, m. Richard Walker, Jan. 23, 1655: the Pettus connection.
It would be both reasonable and logical to assume that one of these latter Overtons was the father of William Overton (who m. Elizabeth Waters), of Virginia, and he the father of (1) Samuel Overton. (2) James Overton, who is recorded thus: “James Overton, 400 acs. (new lease), Hanover Co.; on N. side the S. fork of Elk Cr.; on John Raglin’s line; 20 Feb 1723, 40 shill’ (Nugent, C&P, vol. 3, p. 259). A James Overton appears in the Vestry Book of St. Paul’s Parish: “At a Vestry held at Mr. Wm Harris’s 9br ye 6th 1722 … Mr. James Overton was this day admitted a vestry man for this Parish, and had the usual oaths Administer’d by Majr Nicho Meriwether one of his Majesty’s Justices of the peace”.
William Harris, named in father’s Will of 1678 as an infant. He was involved in the determination of the lands of Thomas Langford, deceased, in a report dated February 26, 1731: ‘the line between Wm Bird esq. & Alex Cock cannot be found, Edward Hundley present for Wm. Bird, present Henry Hix for Mr. Sam’l Welden, Daniel Patrick, William Harris, Jr. … William Ford hath got ye Lands of Langford’s Orphans’. He is also mentioned in a deed of his stepfather, George Alves, to George Dabney, c. 1716, New Kent Co.: ‘As also Another Certain tract of land lyeing upon the North … line of … said George Alves’s Tract containing 300 acres lyeing in the Parish of Saint Paul bounded beginning at several marked trees of William Harris’s line … to a corner of several mark’d trees in the said William Harris’s Upper Line, thence along said William Harris’s Line to the beginning. Two tracts of land are part of a greater tract of land George Alves by patent 16 Dec 1714’.
1. John Harris, b. ca. 1475, m. Margaret Leighton, b. ca. 1491, dau. of Sir Thomas Leighton and his first wife, Anne Barker; his second being Elizabeth Devereux.
1.1. Richard Harris, b. ca. 1508, m. Eleanor Jennyns, dau. of Thomas Jennyns, of Wallybone, Shropshire.
1.1.1. John Harris, esq. (of Cruckton), b. ca. 1532, m. Eleanor, dau. Thomas Prowde, of Shrewsbury.
1.1.1.1. Rowland Harris, of Ludlow, b. ca. 1560, d. 1605, m. (Sept. 14, 1595), Jane Langford, bapt. Oct. 10, 1567.
1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Harris, (bapt. Sept. 4, 1603, Ludlow), removed to Virginia, ca. 1650, having land on Curles Swamp.
1.1.1.1.2. John Harris., bapt. March 5, 1604, Ludlow. John Harris m. (1) Mary Holland, bapt. Sept. 11, 1608, Ludlow, dau. of Roger Holland and Eleanor Lewis, who m. Jan. 13, 1598,
1.1.1.1.2.1. Major William Harris, bapt. January 13, 1627/8, in Ludlow.
1.1.1.1.2.1.1. *William Harris, b. ca. 1675.
1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. George Harris, bapt. April 13, 1701, in St Pauls Parish; a Vestry meeting there in 1719 connecting him to the lands of George Alvis, who had married the widow of Major William Harris.
1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. William Harris, b. ca. 1725, of Wolf Swamp, probably m. a dau. of Mathew Graves
1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. George Harris (b. ca. 1750), m. Sarah Hudson.
1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Graves Harris (b. ca. 1775)), m. Elizabeth Baldwin, dau. of John Baldwin Jr. July 22, 1797
1.1.1.1.2.2. Mary Harris, bapt. April 3, 1625, in Ludlow. In 1689, Mary (Harris) Ligon gave a deposition stating her age to be 64.
John Overton, Chelmarshe, in the diocese of Hereford. Will d. Feb. 7, 1594 – ‘To the poor of Chelmarshe 20/- to be put forth in stock at the discretion of my executors … Niccolles and Richard Wilckes. To Jone Overton my wife my house lands and tentement in Myddelton Scriven for life if she keep herself sole, also four of my best oxen etc. To *Richard Overton my son my great pan and all my waynes etc. belonging to husbandry. To *Thomas Overton my son £6-13-4 within three years after my decease. To Francis Overton my son £13-6-8 when my executors and his mother and my overseers think well. To John Overton my son £5 which he owes me. … To Katherine Niccolls one of the daughters of Thomas Niccolls a caudron. To Sislye Nycolles daughter of the said Thomas a brass pot. To William Niccolles son of the said Thomas a brass pan. To Thomas Niccolls son of the same Thomas a brass pot. To Frances Niccolls daughter of the said Thomas a ewe sheep. To Elizabeth Niccolles wife of the said Thomas one ( ) in the keeping of the same Thomas. To my god-daughter Frances Overton’s daughter of Walslowe 10/.
Jone Overton, of Chelm’she, dyocese of Hereford. Will proved 1612. To be buried in Chelm’she churchyard. To eldest sonn Richard Overton flock bed etc. etc. and the £3 he oweth I due frely give hit vnto his iii children wch he had by his firste wife, viz : 20s. each at 18. To my son John Overton £20, best pott etc. To son Thomas Overton £8 he doth owe also best pann etc. To son in law Richard Smythe 30 strickes of corne and dittor maulte of ye ould messure, also on pece of syluer tachhokes frying panne etc. To sonn in law Thomas Nyckols Table bord etc.; said Thomas and my daughter Elizabeth Nyckols to have use for life then to William Nyckols thir sonne. … To Elizabth Crafte and Winifred Craft daus. of William Crafte on lyttell towell apece. Executors: kinsman Richard Wilkes, and son Thomas Overton. Overseers: Thomas Nyckols and son in law Ric. Smyth.
1. Richard Kenrick, of Acton Burnell, Shropshire, m. Agnes Norton; her sister, Elizabeth, m. Thomas Baldwyn.
(1. William Baldwin of Munslow m. Elizabeth (dau of *Richard Jenkes), and cousin of Dorothy Lutley, who m. George Croft, as given.
1.1. Thomas Baldwin of Munslow, m. Elizabeth, dau of Edward Norton of Collington.
1.2. Roger Baldwin.
1.2.1. Richard Baldwin m. Margery Pitt.
1.2.1.1. Mary Baldwin, m. John Holland).
1.1. John Kenrick, of Woore, Mucklestone, Shropshire, m. Elizabeth Lodge, b. Dec. 14, 1574, d. May 5, 1646. She was the dau. of Jasper Lodge and Eleanor, dau. of Nicholas Grosvenor and Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Mitton and Agnes Grey, and sister of Jane, who m. (2) Thomas Higgons D.D.*
1.1.1. Richard Kenrick, of the Middle Temple, London.
1.1.2. Andrew Kenrick, bur. St. Swithin, London; Merchant-Adventurer, alderman of London. Will proved May 16, 1653 (PCC: 329 Brent).
1.1.3. Edward Kenrick, executor of the Will of his brother, Andrew, m. Susannah Cranmer, b. 1621, of Rotterdam, bur. Jan. 5, 1681, St. Leonard’s, Bromley.
1.1.3.1. Susan Kenrick m. Benjamin Peake, second son of Sir William Peake, Lord Mayor of London in 1668, son of Boniface Peake, and br. of (1) of Robert Peake, d. 1666; whose Will was proven in London, May 26, 1667. (P.C.C. Carr -96), which bequeathed “to cousin James Waters, the son of Joseph Waters. £50; to cousin Waters, relict of Samuel Waters, Skinner. decd. £20, who gave permission for Sir William Peake, aforesaid, to use his family’s arms. George Lydall was Robert Peak’s nephew by marriage, son of his wife sister Bridget Woodward. In Virginia, George Lydall’s son John Lyddall patented land with William Overton, their properties adjoining in New Kent. William’s share eventually went to his dau., Barbara Overton. (2) Anne Peake (wife of Samuel Waters), parents of Elizabeth, who m. William Overton.
1.1.1.1.1. Peter Higgins, m. Catherine Baker (dau. of Roger Baker); sister-in-law of John Harris, ancestor of Rowland Harris, aforementined.
1.1.1.1.1.1. George Higgins, m. Eliz. Farmer.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard Higgins, bur. 1626, St. Alkmand’s, Shrews., m. Eliz., dau. of Richard Baldwyn, of Diddlesbury, bur. Pontesbury, 1638.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2. Edward Higgins, b. 1562, bur. 1614, St. Julian’s, Shrews., m. Ann Sherar.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1. Judith Higgins, b. ca. 1603-1605, m. William Owen, April 30, 1628, St. Chad.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Edward Owen, bapt. Feb. 5, 1629, likely named after Judith’s father.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.2. Thomas Owen, of Virginia, bapt. July 16, 1635.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3. William Owen, bapt. Feb. 2, 1637.
1.1.1.1.1.2.. Richard Higgons, m. Maria Wilding.
1.1.1.1.1.2.1. *Thomas Higgons D.D. He m. (1), Jane, dau. of Richard Mytton, of Shrewsbury.
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