Edward was the son of the Rev John Littleton and Alice Thornes.[1] He was baptised at Munslow, Shropshire on 23 March 1550/1: his father had property there, and was buried there, and Munslow may well have been his birthplace.[2][3]
Marriage and Children
On 9 April 1588 Edward married Mary Walter[4] at Ludlow, Shropshire. She was the daughter of Edmund Walter[1] and his first wife Mary Hakluyt.[2][3] They had the following children:
Edward was admitted to Clements Inn, and then, on 2 April 1574, to the Inner Temple, two of the London Inns of Court.[2][3][19]
He was called to the bar on 9 February 1583/4.[20] He went on to become Chief Justice of North Wales[2][3] and a member of the Council of Wales.[21] He was knighted on 23 April 1603.[22]
Property
Edward held property at Munslow and elsewhere in Shropshire.[2][3]
Death
Edward died on 25 September 1622 at Llanfaire, Denbighshire, Wales. He left no will. His wife survived him: she was buried at Ludlow, Shropshire on 23 October 1633.[2][3]
↑ 4.04.14.24.34.44.54.6 George Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands (eds.). The Visitation of Shropshire taken in the year 1623, Part II, Harleian Society, 1889, p. 483, Internet Archive
↑ Shropshire baptisms, FindMyPast and linked parish register image: transcript gives year as just 1589
↑ Evelyn H Martin. The Littletons, in 'Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society', 4th series, Vol. 3, 1913, pp. 307-309, Internet Archive
↑ Shropshire burials, FindMyPast and linked parish register image
↑ Shropshire baptisms, FindMyPast and linked parish register image
↑ William Henry Cooke. Students admitted to the Inner Temple 1571-1625, 1868, p. 16, Internet Archive
↑A Calendar of Inner Temple Records, 1505-1603, Inner Temple, 1896, p. 329, Internet Archive
↑ 'James 1 - volume 138: February 1623', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I, 1619-23, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1858), pp. 485-505, British History Online, accessed 30 June 2023
↑ W A Shaw. The Knights of England, Vol. II, Sherratt and Hughes, 1906, p. 103, Internet Archive
See also:
Robins, Robert Patterson. A Tentative Pedigree of the Littleton Family of Va., in 'New England Historical and Genealogical Register', Vol. 41, 1887, p. 365, Internet Archive
Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Before 1700, 8th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, p. 5, line 1A/40 (also 7th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992, p. 5, viewable on Google Books)
See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
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