Thomas Porter (abt. 1425 - aft. 1458)

Born about 1425 in Warwickshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died after 1458 after about age 33 in Nether Ettington, Warwickshire, England

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Biography

"Robert Porter held the manor [of Upper Ettington, Warwickshire] in 1444, and died in 1453, when his eldest son Thomas [Porter] succeeded. . . Upper Ettington, however, passed in tail male to William Porter, younger son of Robert. Porter, who died in 1480."

Parents

Thomas Porter, of Nether Etington, was the son of Robert Porter. ^[1]

Marriage

Thomas Porter married Elizabeth ___.

Children

1. Agnes, married John Underhill.

• Thomas Porter, elder brother of William Porter, had an only child, Agnes Porter, who married John Underhill of Hunningham, Warwickshire. Thomas Porter was married to Elizabeth ________ (1430-1458).

• "In 1509, Sir Ralph Shirley leased the manor [of Lower Ettington] to John Underhill, originally of Wolverhampton, Staffs., who had married, as her second husband, Agnes, daughter and heir of Thomas Porter of Upper Ettington." This may have been a renewal of an existing lease. ^[2]

Research Notes

In 1656, Dugdale published the monument inscription for Baldwin Porter.^[3] In 1741, The English Baronetage was published, which misinterpreted his wife as his mother.^[4]

Many later authors, such as Archdall (1789)^[5], Betham (1801)^[6], and Burke (1841)^[7], simply copied this error. This has perpetuated the belief that this Thomas Porter married a daughter of Thomas Westcotte.

Sources

1. ↑ Fetherston, John. The Visitation of the county of Warwick in the year 1619: Taken by William Camden, Clarenceaux king of arms. (Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1877) "Underhill," p. 31.
2. ↑ Victoria County History of Warwick, Vol. 5 (1949). (Extensive manorial descent, for manor of Upper Ettington, in this work has a great deal of information on the Porter family. Robert Porter, elder and younger; Fulk Porter; Simon Porter; et al.)
3. ↑ Dugdale, William. The antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated : from records, leiger-books, manuscripts, charters, evidences, tombes, and armes : beautified with maps, prospects, and portraictures (Thomas Warren, London, 1656) p. 120.
4. ↑ The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets..., Vol. I (Thomas Wotton, London, 1741) p. 308.
5. ↑ Archdall, Mervyn. The Peerage of Ireland, or a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom..., Vol. VII (James Moore, Dublin, 1789) p. 124.
6. ↑ Betham, William. The Baronetage of England, or the History of the English Baronets..., Vol. I (Burrell and Bransby, Ipswich, 1801) p. 307.
7. ↑ Burke, John. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies..., Second ed. (Scott, Webster, and Geary, London, 1841) p. 315.

• Reade, Aleyn Lyell. Johnsonian Gleanings, Part VII, "The Jervis, Porter and Other Allied Families" (Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. LTD, London, 1935) pp. 58-60.