Catherine (Layton) Eden (1618 - abt. 1686)

Born 13 Dec 1618 in East Layton, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of John Eden — married about 1636 in England

Descendants

Died about 1686 at about age 67 in Auckland St Helen, Durham, England

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Biography

Catherine Layton of Sexhow Estate was born at East Layton, Kirkby Ravensworth, Yorkshire, and baptized at Hutton Rudby, 13 Dec 1618, daughter of Sir Thomas Layton and Mary Fairfax. She married about 1636, Col. John Eden of West Auckland, son of Col. Robert and Anne (Bee) Eden.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} Col. John Eden was born 17 August 1616; and was baptized at Brancepeth, Durham, England, 3 December 1616;^[8] died in July 1675, aged 59; and was buried at St. Helen’s, Auckland, 20 July 1675.^[9] They were the parents of Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ "Eden of West Auckland," Joseph Foster, Pedigrees Recorded at the Visitations of the County Palatine of Durham made by William Flower, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1575, by Richard St. George, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1615, and by William Dugdale, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1666 (London: Joseph Foster, 1887), p. 111, found at Archive.org.
2. ↑ John Venn and J. A. Venn (eds.), Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 84, found at Google Books.
3. ↑ Rev. Robert Allan Eden, Some Historical Notes on the Eden Family (London: Blades, East & Blades, 1907), pp. 29-30, found at FamilySearch.
4. ↑ Joseph Foster (ed.), Pedigrees Recorded at the Visitations of the County Palatine of Durham made by William Flower, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1575, by Richard St. George, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1615, and by William Dugdale, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1666 (London: Joseph Foster, 1887), pp. 110-111, found at Archive.org
5. ↑ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (1914), p. 693, found at Google Books.
6. ↑ Melville Henry Massue Marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval, The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal Being a Complete Table of All the Descendants Now Living of Edward III, King of England. The Mortimer-Percy Volume: Containing the Ddescendants of Lady Elizabeth Percy, née Mortimer vol. 4, part 1 (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994), p. 114.
7. ↑ Thomas Wotton, Richard Johnson, Edward Kimber, The Baronetage of England Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets Now Existing: with Their Descents, Marriages, and Memorable Actions Both in War and Peace: Collected from Authentic Manuscripts, Records, Old Wills, Our Best Historians, and Other Authorities: Illustrated with Their Coats of Arms, Engraven on Copper-plates: Also, a List of All the Baronets, who Have Been Advanced to that Dignity, from the First Institution Thereof: to which is Added an Account of Such Nova-Scotia Baronets as are of English Families: and a Dictionary of Heraldry, Explaining Such Terms as are Commonly Used in English Armory vol. 2 (1771), p. 369, found at Google Books.
8. ↑ Herbert Maxwell Wood (ed.), Transcript of the parish register of Brancepeth, vols. 1-10, christenings, marriages, and burials, 1599-1812, banns, 1754-1812 British B1 High Density 94,986 (Item 2), (FHL film 7,904,028).
9. ↑ Parish registers for St. Helen-Auckland, 1593-1928: Births & baptisms, marriages, burials, 1593-1786. Baptisms, burials, 1787-1797; marriages, 1787-1812. Baptisms, 1798-1814. Burials, 1798-1814. British B1 High Density 1,894,177 (FHL film 4,191,977).
10. ↑ peerage.com Catherine Layton. F, #395750.

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