Hugh de COURTENAY / Agnes ST JOHN

      /--Robert de  COURTENAY 
   /--John de  COURTENAY 
   |  \--Mary de  REVIERS 
/--Hugh de  COURTENAY 
|  |  /--John de  VERE 
|  \--Isabel de  VERE 
|     \--Maud de  BADLESMERE 
|--Hugh de  COURTENAY 
|     /--Hugh Le  DESPENSER 
|  /--Hugh Le  DESPENSER 
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\--Eleanor Le  DESPENSER 
   |  /--Hugh Le  DESPENSER 
   \--Aline Aliva  BASSETT 
      \--Hawise de  LOVAINE 

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/--John de  ST JOHN 
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|--Agnes  ST JOHN 
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|  /--Reunold  FITZPIERS 
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\--Alice  FITZPIERS 
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[1631] !Our Noble & Gentle Families of Royal Descent Together with Their Paternal Ancestry by Joseph Foster p 721 1887 Edition: K.G., 6th baron of Oakhampton 2nd earl of Devon; served in the Scottish wars at the battle near Halidon Hill, served in several expeditons to France;

SEE #3137 on SPENCER.

per Ances of Pres

per Marlyn Lewis

[1634] !III Bands Dorm & Ext. Bar pp 345-346;
Cokayne 23, Vol IV p 261;
Royal Ancestors Magna "Carta Baron pp 36,78,249;
III G:bbs Perrage pp 464,466,315,342;
Edmonton Peer p 350
Ancestral Roots p 68
!The Oxford Illistrated History of the British Monarchy by Cannon and Griffith. !Genealogical Society of Utah; Gareth Rice

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died at Wooton Courtnenay & Cricket Malherbe, Somersetshire, England

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Richard PALGRAVE / Mrs Anna PALGRAVE

      /--Henry  PAGRAVE 
   /--Thomas  PALGRAVE 
   |  \--Annie  GLEMHAM 
/--Edward  GUNTON 
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|  \--Alice  GUNTON 
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|--Richard  PALGRAVE 
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\--Mrs Edward  GUNTON 
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|--Mrs Anna  PALGRAVE 
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John CARLETON / Ellen STRICKLAND

      /--Thomas  CARLETON 
   /--John  CARLETON 
   |  \--Notes  UNKNOWN 
/--Thomas  CARLETON 
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|--John  CARLETON 
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\--Jeannett  WILSON 
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/--Walter  STRICKLAND 
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|--Ellen  STRICKLAND 
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\--Anes  HAMERTON 
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[3205] The Strickland Family

Sizergh, the name of the Strickland family home, is of Scandinavian origin, and originates from the Scandinavian occupation of England in the 9th and 10th Centuries. Along with a large gift of other lands, Sizergh was granted by Henry II about 1170-80 to Gervase d'Eyncourt (Deincourt), a cadet of the great baronial family of that name in Lincolnshire. These possessions continued in the d'Eyncourt family for several generations until Elizabeth, great-granddaughter of Gervase, became the sole heiress, and conveyed them all in marriage to her husband, Sir William Strickland in 1239. From that time, this has been the residence of the Strickland family.

In earlier times, the family was known as "de Castlecarrock," and they were descended from the Norman family of Vaux (or de Vallibus), and therefore allied to the family of Gilles. In 1179, Walter de Castlecarrock married, moved to the manor of Great Strickland in north Westmoreland acquired through his wife, and assumed the name "de Strikeland." The name meant "the pastureland of young cattle." This Walter was later knighted and was the great-grandfather of the Sir William mentioned above.

Family members have been found in Parliament in almost every generation until the end of the 17th Century. They have also been involved in other parts of Government, including the military, up to the present time.

Walter Strickland, born 5 Apr. 1516, died 8 March 1569, was the eldest son and heir of Sir Walter Strickland and Katherine Neville. His marital affairs are not entirely clear. On 8 March 1535, while under age, he was contracted to marry Margaret Hamerton, daughter of Sir Stephen Hamerton, but there is no record of the marriage ever taking place, and it is said that Margaret took her own life a few days before the expected marriage. In records of 1537, Walter is mentioned as having a wife, Agnes. It is entirely possible that Agnes is the same as Ann, a younger daughter of Sir Stephen Hamerton, and she may also be the mother of Ellen, since Ellen and John named their first child Ann. Whatever the name and identity of the mother, Walter recognized Ellen as his "natural daughter" and made provision for her in his will. Ellen also apparently lived with her father in Sizergh Castle. Walter married ca. 1560/1, Alice (Tempest) Place, widow of Christopher Place, Yorkshire. After Walter's death, Alice married Sir Thomas Boynton.

It was during the time that Walter and Alice (Tempest) Strickland lived in the castle that all the Elizabethan part was built and paneling installed. Alice remained at Sizergh Castle after the death of Walter and her marriage to Sir Thomas Boynton to look after the young Strickland children. Being a lady of great taste, she was responsible for much of the paneling and other 16th Century ornamentation. After Sir Thomas Boynton's death, Alice moved to Yorkshire and here the marriage of Ellen to John Carleton took place. Alice also made provision in her will for Ellen Strickland, daughter of her deceased husband, Walter.

Sizergh castle still stands and is in good condition. It was given in 1950 to the National Trust and is open for tours. The present Strickland family lives in one wing of the castle. She was born circa 1557 in England.19 She died after 1622 in England.

[3207] 12. Walter5 Carleton (John4, Thomas3, John2, Thomas1Culton) was born in 1582 in Beeford, co. Yorkshire, England.7,28 He married Jane Gibbon, daughter of Peter Gibbon and Margaret ???, in 1607 in Hornsea, co. Yorkshire, England.7,29 He died on 4 October 1623 in Hornsea, co. Yorkshire, England.7,29,10

Walter Carlton was the first of the family to leave the old homestead, for which he had such an affection that he returned to Beeford for the christening of his first two children (and most fortunately, since the early Hornsea register is lost). It may be imagined that his ability immediately commended him to the Gibbon family. In the year following his marriage he was joined with the mother of his very young wife in the administration of the estate of Peter Gibbon, who had died probably just about the time of his daughter's marriage to Walter. A similar expression of confidence is to be seen twelve years later, when he was named supervisor in the will of his wife's stepfather, William Ombler. In his various land transactions, as evidenced by the fines and by the Hornsea Survey of 1608, he was associated with the Gibbon inheritance.

In his will, dated 15 Mar. 1622, but not proved until 1626, it may he inferred that Walter Carlton's most important lands (in Great Hatfield, probably part of the Gibbon estate) went to his son Edward. It may be noted that the Widow Margery Gibbon had also held "Shirewater," given to his daughter Anne, in 1608. This same property, "Sherewater," was in the custody of Walter Carlton in 1610, when his cattle broke out of a pasture there, and put him under the necessity of paying a small fine, together with his brother-in-law, William Day. This is the only appearance of the Carleton name in the local court rolls during a period of fifteen years.

FROM PROBATE RECORDS

The Will of WALTER CARLTON of Hornsea Burton, 1622

"In the name of God Amen I Walter Carleton of Hornsey Burton in the Countie of Yorke gent. sicke of bodie but of perfect & sounde memory God be praysed therfore doe make my last will & testament in manner & forme following Imprimis I give & bequeath my selfe body & soule unto the Almighty god my maker hoping he will accept of me through the death and passion of his sonne Christ Jesus my lord & savior

Item I give & bequeth vnto the poore of the parishe of Hornsey ffortye shillings.

Item I give vnto Jane my wife the house in Hornsey Burton wherin I dwell & two oxgans of land & the two closes thervnto belonging all wch are parcell or belonging to the manner of Ryse for & during so many yeares as she shall remayne widowe & then I do give the said howse oxgans of land & closes to my executors for the residew of the terme of yeares wch I have in them.

Item I give vnto Thomas Carleton my sonne five pounds of yearely rent to be issuing out of all my lands in Hatfeyld to be payd vnto hym during his natural life & to begin presently after the end of Adams lease and also other five pounds of yearely rent out of all my lands in Hatefeyld to be issuing & paid vnto him my sd sonne Thomas Carleton to begin after his mothers death & att the time that he shalbe of the age of xxi yeares & to continew during his life wch rents of vl and my will is shalbe payd vnto hym by even & equal portions att the feast of St. Martin the bishopp in winter & of pentecoste and that yt the same be not duely payd vnto him according to my true meaning that then the sd Thomas may distreyne in the sd lands that wch shalbe arreare & the dystres so taken lead drive or carry away & the same keepe till he be thereof satisfyod.

Item I do give all my estate, title, right, interest & demand in halfe of a howse and in five oxgans of land in Hornesey Burton wch was purchased of John & Elizabeth Ombler, my brother & sister in lawe, the assurance whereof is made to me & my brother George Carleton, vnto Willm Carleton my sonne & his heyres for ever.

Item I give vnto my sonne Willm all my copyhold land in Hornesey and do desire my wife to surrender vnto hym and his heires all the interest she hath in any land there. Item I give vnto my sonne Edward all my right title interest estate & terme of yeares & demnd wch I have in Hatefeyd or any part thereof yielding and paying vnto his brother Thomas the rents of five poundes & five poundes as aforesaid & allso I give vnto my sonne Edward one silver boule or goblitt.

Item I give vnto my daughter Anne Carleton all my estate right title interest & demand wch I have in a part of Hornsey Burton Marre lately enclosed & called the newe close & in one other close called the shirewater & my meaning is that whereas shirewater lease is about to be renewed, that the charge thereof shalbe borne and payd out of my goods by my executors.

Item I do hereby declare that I give this vnto them the sd Thomas Willm & Anne Carleton in consideration of such portion or childs part or parts as they may have of my goods & in consideration that they shall not clame demand nor have any part thereof & that yt they or any of them shall demande & gett by suitt any portion or childs part thereof that then he or they shall not have the legacye or legacies given vnto them by this my will but the same shall go to my executors who shall have them as my sd child or children should have had them.

Item I give to my mother Carleton one piece of gould of xi s.

Item I give to every of my brothers vid Thomas Carleton George Carleton & John Carleton one piece of gould of xi s.

Item I give vnto my cosin Phillipp Carleton, my brother Thomas Carletons son, x l to be payd to him when he comes att age or tobe disbursed for binding him prentyse as my executors shall thinke fitt & att ther election.

Item I do nominate appoynt & make Robert more of Hornsey, gen, & George Carleton, my brother, my executors of this my last will & testament and I give vnto them all the rest of my goods vnbequeathed, my debts payd and funerall expences satisfyed and I appoint my brother John to be tutor to my son Thomas and my other children to my wife's tuition.

In witnes whereof I have set to my hand & seale this fiftenth of March 1622."

Witnesses Jane Carleton

Robte T Middleton

his marke

Willm I Newsames

marke

Robert Harlands

marke

Whereas I have in this my will nominated my brother George Carleton one of my executors I do nowe (fearing he will not long live) nominate Willm North of Roston to be executor in his rome wth Mr. Robert More & will not have my sd Brother to he one & also I do declare this aforsd will duely alterd in that point to be my will & testament this 30th of September 1623 & that day in witnes therof I sette my owne hand in the presence of

Robert Middleton

Walter Carlton (The signature here very bad)

Robert More

(York Probate Registry, Original will; also recorded in vol. 39, fo 4.)

[22 Nov. 1626, Mr. Welfit, clerk, dean of Holderness] certified concerning the probate of the will of Walter Carleton, late of Hornesey Burton in the Diocese of York, deceased, through the witnesses sworn. Administration on the goods of the same deceased was granted to Robert Moore and William North, coexecutors named in the will, being previously sworn. Inventory above 40 pounds. (York, Act Book, Holderness Deanery, 1626.)

Mrs. Jane (Gibbon) Carlton presumably had to sacrifice her house and land in Hornsea Burton when she married again, 23 Jan. 1626, at Hornsea, William Birkell, Jr., of Mappleton. She probably took the younger children there with her, though Edward Carlton remained in Hornsea until 1629 at least. The loss of Hornsea and Mappleton registers precludes tracing her further.

King's Court, Westminster. 9 James I (1611/12) in Octaves of Hilary. Walter Carlton and wife, Jane, and their heirs, quitclaim land to Thomas Hornbye, consisting of 1 messuage, 30 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, and common pasture for all beasts in Hornsey (Hornsea), in Holderness, for the sum of 41 pounds.

Feet of Fines. 13 James I (1615) 15 days after Easter Walter Carleton and George Carleton (his brother) for 60 pounds purchase land from John and Elizabeth Ombler, consisting of 1 messuage, 1 barn, 1 gardens, 130 acres of land, 12 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, and common pasture in Hornsey Burton.

Final agreement made in the King's Court at Westminster in the octaves of St. Trinity, 19 James I [1622], before the King's justices there, between John Carleton senior and John Carleton junior, plaintiffs, and Walter Carleton and Jane, his wife, and John Ombler and Elizabeth, his wife, deforciants, of one messuage, one garden, 160 acres of land, 60 acres of meadow, and 60 acres of pasture, and of the moiety of 2 messuages, 3 cottages, 3 gardens, 40 acres of land, 60 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 3 acres of wood and 60 acres of furze and heath and common of pasture for all beasts in Hornsey, Hornsey Burton and Great Hatfield, whereof a plea of covenant was summoned between them, that is, that Walter and Jane and John Ombler and Elizabeth have acknowledged the same to be the right of John Carleton, Senior, as of their gift, and have remitted and quitclaimed the same for themselves and the heirs of Walter to said John and John and the heirs of John Carleton, Senior, forever. And further Walter and Jane and John Ombler and Elizabeth have granted, for themselves and the heirs of Jane, to warrant John Carleton and John Carleton and the heirs of John Carleton, Senior, therein against themselves and the heirs of Walter forever. For which warranty, grant, etc., John and John have given them 240 pounds. (Feet of Fines, Yorks, Bundle 383, Trinity, 19 James I.)

19 June, 22 James I [1624]. Writ of diem clausit exiremum. Inquisition taken at York Castle 20 July, 22 James I [1624], after the death of Walter Carleton, late of Hornesey, gent., deceased, by the oath of [15 jurors named], who say upon their oath that Walter Carleton the day on which he died was seized in his demesne as of fee of and in half one messuage and of 5 bovates of land in Hornesey Burton, and that, so of the premises being seized, died thereof so seized. And that the half messuage and other premises in Hornesey Burton are held and at the time of the death of Walter Carleton were held of the king in chief by knight's service and that they are worth by the year in all issues beyond reprises 20s. And that he died 4 October last past [i.e. 1623] and that William Carleton is his son and next heir, and was aged at the time of his father's death six years. And that Walter Carleton the day on which he died neither had nor held any other or more lands or tenements of the king nor of any other person in demesne nor in service in the county aforesaid to their [the jurors'] knowledge. (Chancery Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series II, vol. 677, no. 40.).30

Jane Gibbon married William Birkell Jr. on 23 January 1625/26 in Hornsea, co. Yorkshire, England. As Jane Birkell she was a legatee in the will of her mother in 1629, and she was mentioned in the will of her son William Carlton in 1639.31 She was born circa 1595 in Great Hatfield, co. Yorkshire, England.7,32 She died after 1639 in England.

The four children of Walter5 Carleton and Jane Gibbon were as follows:

+ 46. i. Edward6 Carleton, born in Hornsea, co. Yorkshire, England; married Ellen Newton.

47. ii. Thomas Carleton was born in Beeford, co. Yorkshire, England.7,32 He died in Barmston, co. Yorkshire, England.33,32

Thomas, baptized at Beeford 10 Jan. 1612/13; living in 1643, when he was given a bequest of five pounds in the will of his uncle John Carlton. He is perhaps the Thomas Carlton buried at Barmston 30 Sept. 1657, and his estate mentioned as a creditor in the inventory of Thomas Bilton of Beeford, 5 Oct. 1657, in the Beeford Manor Court.

48. iii. Anne Carleton was born between 1615 and 1619 in probably Hornsea, co. Yorkshire, England.7 She died after 1622 in England.33,32

Anne is known only by the bequest of lands in Hornsea in her father's will.

49. iv. William Carleton was born say 1617 in Hornsea, co. Yorkshire, England.7,34 He died in England.33
William, born probably in Hornsea about 1617 (aged six years at the time of his father's death [Inquisition post mortem]), died in 1639. The express statement in the inquisition taken after the death of Walter Carlton, that William "is his son and heir," at first occasioned some perplexity. It is, however, readily explained by a careful reading of the will and inquisition together: the half of a house and five bovates or oxgangs of freehold land (approximately 75 acres) in Hornsea Burton given to William by the will is the same property as that mentioned in the inquisition, and was the only land held of the King in capite, and therefore the only land to be considered by the jurors, who understood that William was the heir to this particular property, and made their report accordingly.

William evidently preferred a seafaring life to farming, and "being about to take a voyage into New England" in May 1639, made a nuncupative will, proved the following August, administration being granted to his brother Thomas. "His sister Thomasin," to whom he bequeathed a gold ring, was possibly the wife of his brother Thomas, but more probably his half sister, daughter of his mother by her second husband, named after her sister, Thomasine (Gibbon), wife of William Day. The bequest of another ring to "my mother" indicates that Jane (Gibbon) (Carlton) Birkell was still living at this time. This projected voyage of William Carlton to follow his brother Edward to New England furnishes additional confirmation that Edward is placed in the right family.

The nuncupative Will of WILLIAM CARLETON of Hull, 1639. Memorandum that William Carleton of Kingston upon Hull within the Dioces of Yorke, mariner, about the tenth day of May last, being about to take a voyage into New England, he being then pr'sent in the shopp of one Cuthbert Prestwood in Kingston upon Hull, did give unto Thomas Carleton his brother the remainder of xxxli owing to him by Robert Whiteing of Hornsea Burton in Holderness in the County of Yorke, husbandman, after xvijli thereof paid to Lancelot Truslove, draper, and vijli to Cuthbert Prestwood, Mercer, Lancelott Truslove and Cuthbert Prestwood being then present, and he did then use such speeches, That they did verely conceive and doe believe that Willm Carleton's intencon was to make the said Thomas his executor, and they have seene a note or letter whereunto Willm Carleton is subscribed and written to his Sister Thomasin, and which they verely believe to be his hand, wherein these words are written That I have spoke to my brother Thomas Carleton; if that it please God to call me before I see you againe to buy you a gold ring, and my mother another gold ring about Twenty Shillings price, and of this as above are Wtnesses: Lancelott Truslove, Cuthbert Prestwood. Proved 29 August 1639; administration granted to Thomas Carlton brother of the deceased. (York Probate Registry, Filed will.)

The Carleton family belonged to the class of small gentry on the edge of yeomanry. They held positions of responsibility and prominence in their various communities, and Edward, the immigrant to America, was called "Mr." --a title not given to everyone. Various records show that considerable land was held by men of this name both in England and America.

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