Robert Morton (abt. 1537)

Born about 1537 in Haughton, Shropshire

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By the union of Thomas Lee of Langley and Jane Corbet there were 10 children.
The eldest daughter, Jocosa Lee, marries Robert Morton of Houghton, who was a widower at the time, as a daughter (Johanna Morton) of his marries Thomas Lee of Nordley.^[1]

Note

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623, p. 320: Jocosa vxor Rob'ti Morton de Haughton iuxta Shipnall. Also p. 368: Robert Morton de Houghton = Joyce da to Thomas Lee de Langley.

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623, p. 368 Morton of Haughton. Harl. 1241, fo. 13b., Harl. 615, fo. 249b., S., Fo. 198. ARMS: Harl. 1241 - Quarterly of six: 1, Argent, a chevron between three trefoils sable: 2, Gules, a cock or; 2 and 5, as frist; 4 and 6, as the second [Per fesse argent and gules, a pale counterchanged, on each piece of the first a chevron between three trefoils sable, on each piece of the second a cock of]. Crest - Between two wings expanded azure a cock's head couped - or in Shrewsbury MS. - combed and charged on the neck with three bars - a fesse between two bars-gemelles in Shrewsbury MS. - gules, and holding in the beak a trefoil sable. A patent graunted to Rich. Morton [of Houghton] by Christopher Barker alias Gartier in the 28th yeare of H.s. Robert Morton [living in 1500] = ...

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogical History of the Lee Family of Virginia and Maryland from A.D. 1300 to A.D. 1866, p. 39, date accessed 2014-05-11, amb

• Edward Campbell Mead, Genealogical History of the Lee Family of Virginia and Maryland from A.D. 1300 to A.D. 1866 (Google eBook). University Publishing Company, 1871.

• Allen, John Kermott, b. 1858, George Morton of Plymouth Colony and some of his descendants (1908). Publisher: Chicago, Printed for private circulation by J. K. Allen

• William Richard Drake (sir.), Fasciculus Mervinensis, notes historical, genealogical, and heraldic of the family of Mervyn (Google eBook). 1873

• Thomas Wotton, The English baronets, a genealogical and historical account of their families