Did John Denison who remained in England have offspring?

Question

While his parents and siblings emigrated to New England as part of the Puritan Great Migration, John remained behind.  His brother Daniel wrote of him: "Marryed with a good portion, who was a minister, and lived about Pelham or in Hartfordshire, not far from Stratford where we were born."

Wondering if someone familiar with/or who has access to English records might find out who he married, and if he had children.

Many thanks.

Answer 1

This is from Alumni Cantabrigienses, for John and his son Richard:

DENISON, JOHN. Matric. pens, from Queens', Michs. 1620. Of Hertfordshire. B.A. 1623-4; M.A. 1627. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Feb. 22, 1629-30; priest (Ely) Mar. 17, 1632-3. R. of Quendon, 1650. V. of Standon, Herts., till his death, 1670. Father of Richard (1654).

DENISON, RICHARD. Adm. sizar (age 17) at St John's, June 26, 1654. S. of John (1620), V. of Fumenx Pelham, Herts, (not recorded as vicar). B. at Quendon, Essex. School, Newport (Mr Woollie). Matric. 1654.

https://archive.org/details/alumnicantabrigipt1vol2univiala/page/30/mode/2up?view=theater
 

Comments

Here he is in the CCED Clergy Database:  https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/index.jsp  ID#62609  Richard, however, is not listed.

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I can update John Denison's bio with this. I also had a look at his ancestry, going back to his great grandfather "Bishop" Denison, which can't be right. I looked at some other records and there was a William Denison at about the right time in Little Hadham, a couple miles away. I have some Herts Record Society books. I'll have a look at those and see if I can do something about "Bishop" Denison.

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Oxoniensis  has a John Denison DD whose son John also DD is said to have been rector of Quendon in 1651 . 

Denison, John of co. Warwick, pleb. Magdalen Hall, matric. 22 May, 1590, aged 20; B.A. from Balliol Coll. 8 Feb., 1593-4, M.A. 4 July, 1600 (then in orders), licenced to preach 22 Jan., 1605-6, B.D. 23 April, 1607, D.D. 20 June, 1611, domestic chaplain to George, Duke of Buckingham, chaplain to James I., chief moderator free school, Reading, Berks, vicar of St. Mary, Reading, 1593, of St. Laurence, Reading, 1603, and of St. Giles, Reading, 1612, rector of Woodmansterne, Surrey, 1610, until his death, buried there 1 Feb., 1628-9, father of the next named. See Ath., ii. 439; Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus; & D.N.B.

Denison, John 'doctoris fil.' Balliol Coll., matric. 15 Oct., 1631; B.A. 17 Oct., 1631, M.A. 11 June, 1634, rector of Quendon, Essex, 1651. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus

John senior  left a will 

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D880246

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/sharing/29661668?h=b553d7

Confusing?

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These are different people. In the will of John Denison of Reading in 1629, he bequeathed books and a featherbed to his son John "when he goeth to Oxford." But the John Denison here had already gone to the other place in 1620.

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/827217:5111?tid=&pid=&queryId=0a969fb31577aee4f6d514dbdda20bc6&_phsrc=sVO2880&_phstart=successSource

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Thanks, Vance, for improving his profile. Really appreciate it.

Answer 2

He died a "natural death" on 21 Oct  1670 Stondon Massey, Herts.  CCEd Clergy of the Church of England Database.

He had signed the Act of Conformity there in August 1662.

Does not state where he was between 1640  (left Quendon) and 1662.

Son Richard is not in that database.

Answer 3

These are two possibilities for his marriage, given that his son Richard was 17 in 1654:

?1637 Bampton, Westmoreland, Elizabeth __

?19 Oct 1637 St Helen Bishopgate, London, Sara Hodsall

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