Eleanor (Thornton) Dutton (1316 - bef. 1379)

Born 1316 in Thornton, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died before 1379 before age 63 in Dutton, Cheshire, England

Biography

In 3 Richard II, 1379, Sir Thomas Dutton, knight, was granted a perpetual chantry to pray for the salvation of him and his children and of Philippa his wife, and for the soul of dame Ellen, his late wife, by William Eltonhed, prior of the Hermit Fryars of the Order of St Augustine at Warrington in Lancashire and the convent there.

Name

Eleanor "Ellen" Thornton

Sources

• George Ormerod, Esq, LLD, FRS & FSA, "Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the county of the city of Chester and Bucklow Hundred", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, Esq, Vol. I, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), accessed 17 December 2015, .
• Burke, Bernard. Royal Descents and Pedigrees of Founders Kin (Harrison, London, 1864) Page n200