John Button (abt. 1550 - bef. 1602)

Born about 1550 in Alton, Hampshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

John was the son of William Button and Mary Kelway.^[1][2]

He married Helen daughter of Sir Bernard Drake of Ashe, Devon.^[1] They had issue:

• John^[1]
• Francis^[1]
• Henry^[1]

He died before before 1602.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Phillipps, Thomas (ed), Visitatio heraldica comitatus Wiltoniæ, A.D. 1623. (1828) Button pedigree
2. ↑ Pedigrees from the visitation of Hampshire made by Thomas Benolt, Clarenceulx a 1530 : enlarged with the vissitation of the same county made by Robert Cooke, Clarenceulx anno 1575 both which are continued with the vissitation made by John Phillipott, Somersett (for William Camden, Clarenceux) in a 1622 most part then done & finished in a 1634. As collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian ms. no. 1544 by Benolt, Thomas, d. 1534; Cooke, Robert, d. 1592; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645; Mundy, Richard; Rylands, W. Harry (William Harry), 1847-1922 Page 212: Button
3. ↑ A P Baggs, D A Crowley, Ralph B Pugh, Janet H Stevenson and Margaret Tomlinson, 'Parishes: Upavon', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 10, ed. Elizabeth Crittall (London, 1975), pp. 159-173. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol10/pp159-173 [accessed 14 January 2022].