Hugh (Dutton) of Hatton (1369 - 1440)

Born 1369 in Dutton, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

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Died 1440 at about age 71 in Hatton, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Hugh Dutton was the second son of Edmund Dutton and his wife, Joan, the daughter and heir of Henry Minshull de Church Minshull.^[1] Hugh's father, Edmund, was a younger son of Sir Thomas Dutton and his wife, Ellen, the eldest daughter and coheir of sir Peter Thornton of Thornton.^[2]

Hugh was the brother of:

1. Sir Peter Dutton, born circa 1367, who was heir to his mother in 1387, and to his uncle, Sir Lawrence Dutton of Dutton^[1] in 1392;^[3]
2. Lawrence Dutton;^[1]
3. Thomas Dutton;^[1]
4. Agnes de Dutton, who was married to William Leycester of Nether Tabley in 1398;^[1]
5. Ellen;^[1]
6. Robert, who had a dispensation, dated "Rome xvij kl Januar' Pont dni Bonifacj" in Bishop's letters, July 1397, to marry Kat'ine Spurstowe;^[4]

Hugh's father, Edmund, died before 1387, predeceasing his older brother, Hugh's uncle, Sir Lawrence.^[1] Hugh's widowed mother, Joan, then married William de Hooton, with whom she had more children.^[1] Joan de Hooton died in 11 Richard II, 1387, and her son Peter Dutton, aged 20, was her heir.^[1]

Hugh married Petronilla^[5] and became the first Dutton of Hatton in her right.^[6] Petronill was the daughter and cohier of Ralph Vernon of Hatton, grandson of Maud, daughter of John and sister and heir of Peter de Hatton juxta Warton.^[6]

Hugh and Petronill had children:

1. John Dutton, son and heir;^[6]
2. Lawrence Dutton;^[6]
3. Randle Dutton, rector of Christleton nigh Chester;^[6]
4. Hugh Dutton;^[6]
5. Elizabeth, who was married to Richard Manley of Manley;^[6]

In 10 Henry V [21 March 1422-31 August 1422], a fine was enrolled on the Plea Rolls of the County of Chester between Robert Aby, vicar of Tervyn, and Hugh de Dutton, sheriff of Chester, and Petronilla his wife, for twenty-seven messuages, eighteen tofts, nine hundred acres of land, and three hundred and four acres of pasture in Waverton, Chollegh, Broxon, Parva Cristelton, and Aldresey, Cheshire.^[5]

After Petronill's death, Hugh married in 16 Henry VI [1 September 1437-31 August 1438], Emme, the daughter of Nicolas Warren of Pointon, and widow of Hugh Venables of Golborne.^[6]

Hugh Dutton of Hatton was sheriff of Cheshire in 10 Henry V, 1422.^{[6] [5]}

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Ormerod ed Helsby, Vol I, 1882, p 647, quoting Leycester, Peter. Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire. London: Printed by W.L. for Robert Clavell, 1673.
2. ↑ Ormerod ed Helsby, Vol I, 1882, p 646, quoting Leycester, Peter. Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire. London: Printed by W.L. for Robert Clavell, 1673.
3. ↑ Ormerod ed Helsby, Vol I, 1882, p 648, quoting Leycester, Peter. Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire. London: Printed by W.L. for Robert Clavell, 1673.
4. ↑ Ormerod ed Helsby, Vol I, 1882, p 647, Helsby citing Lich. Dioc. Reg.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix 6. Welsh Records. Calendar of Deeds, Inquisitions, and Writs of Dower, Enrolled on the Plea Rolls of the County of Chester.—Ric. 2 to Hen. 7." The Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [25 February 1868] (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1868), 76. e-Book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039450518?urlappend=%3Bseq=274%3Bownerid=34524648-273 : accessed 29 October, 2022).
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8} Ormerod ed Helsby, Vol I, 1882, p 650, quoting Leycester, Peter. Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire. London: Printed by W.L. for Robert Clavell, 1673.

See also:

• 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 15 December 2015, .