Lancelot Addison (abt. 1604 - 1666)

Born about 1604 in Meaburn Town Head, Mauldismeaburn, Westmorland, England

Descendants

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Biography

The Addisons were one of the most economically, socially, and politically prominent families of early Maryland. In England, the Addisons were members of the gentry, and while not aristocrats, were sufficiently distinguished to have a coat of arms.

The first Addison in America was Col. John Addison, born in Westmoreland, England, at "The Hill," his family's estate, on an unknown date. He was the second son of the Rev. Lancelot Addison. Both Col. John's elder brother, Lancelot, and his younger brother, Anthony, followed their father into the church, with Lancelot becoming a royal chaplain and Dean of Litchfield Cathedral, and Anthony Rector of Abington, Chaplin to the Duke of Marlborough. Other brothers, Thomas and Henry, were merchants based in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England.^[1]

Launcelot was born in 1604. He is the son of William Addison. He died in 1666 having contracted the plague which was spreading through England and which had such a deadly effect on the population of London that year, prior to much of the city being destroyed in the Great Fire of London.

Sources

1. ↑ McCarthy, John P.: Oxon Hill Manor The Archaeology and History of “A World They Made Together” —Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum and Maryland Historical Trust St. Leonard, Maryland; Crownsville, Maryland

• Information taken from entries in the Parish Registers for the Counties of Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland, England, extracts of wills of family members, family papers, details from assorted transcriptions of graveyard and burial records, held by John M Sutherland-Fisher Esq and family papers available at the Record Office for Cumbria in Carlisle.

• Extensive notes on the Addison family by Tim Addison taken from extract family and other documents. (Tim Addison is a distant cousin of John M Sutherland-Fisher Esq).

• Private papers and family correspondence in the collection of John M Sutherland-Fisher Esq.

• Pedigree of the Addison family taken from “One Hundred Years Ago” by Elizabeth Hesselius Murray 1895.

• Information taken from entries in the Parish Registers for the Counties of Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland, England, extracts of wills of family members, family papers, details from assorted transcriptions of graveyard and burial records, held by John M Sutherland-Fisher Esq and family papers available at the Record Office for Cumbria in Carlisle.

• Extensive notes on the Addison family by Tim Addison taken from extract family and other documents. (Tim Addison is a distant cousin of John M Sutherland-Fisher Esq).

• Private papers and family correspondence in the collection of John M Sutherland-Fisher Esq.

• Pedigree of the Addison family taken from “One Hundred Years Ago” by Elizabeth Hesselius Murray 1895.

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