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Edward Littleton (bef. 1551 - 1622)

Sir Edward Littleton
Born before in Munslow, Shropshire, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 9 Apr 1588 in Ludlow, Shropshire, Englandmap
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Died after age 71 in Llanfaire, Denbighshire, Walesmap
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Contents

Biography

Birth and Parents

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:

Life

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]

Sources

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 A T Butler (ed.). The Visitation of Worcestershire 1634, Harleian Society, 1938, p. 64, Google Books
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. III, pp. 34-35, LITTLETON 16
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pp. 587-588, LITTLETON 15
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 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
  5. Shropshire baptisms, FindMyPast and linked parish register image: transcript gives year as just 1589
  6. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPVJ-ZRZ : 5 February 2023), Edward Littleton, 1590.
  7. Shropshire baptisms, FindMyPast and linked parish register image
  8. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPVJ-CNP : 5 February 2023), Willielmus Littilton, 1591
  9. Shropshire baptisms, FindMyPast and linked parish register image
  10. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPVJ-W7Z : 5 February 2023), James Littleton, 1594
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 The Registers of Hopton Castle, Shropshire, Parish Record Society, 1901, pp. 8-9, Internet Archive
  12. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWVY-5YP : 4 February 2023), Nathaniel Lyttleton, 1605
  13. 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
  14. Shropshire burials, FindMyPast and linked parish register image
  15. Shropshire baptisms, FindMyPast and linked parish register image
  16. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPVL-KP2 : 5 February 2023), Anna Littelton or Lyttelton, 1593
  17. Shropshire marriages, FindMyPast and linked parish register image: mis-transcribes her husband's last names a Retlesbie
  18. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N51Z-887 : 4 February 2023), Priscilla Litleton, 1604
  19. William Henry Cooke. Students admitted to the Inner Temple 1571-1625, 1868, p. 16, Internet Archive
  20. A Calendar of Inner Temple Records, 1505-1603, Inner Temple, 1896, p. 329, Internet Archive
  21. '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
  22. 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)

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project by David Douglass in December 2017 and re-reviewed for the Project by Michael Cayley on 30 June 2023.
Edward Littleton appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Nathaniel Littleton to Magna Carta Surety Baron William de Mowbray (vol. III, pages 33-35 LITTLETON). This trail was identified by the Magna Carta Project and reviewed/approved in December 2017. A trail from Littleton to the Bigods (Hugh and Roger) was also completed/approved in December 2017. Other trails from Gateway Litttleton to the Clares (Richard and Gilbert), John de Lacy and Saher de Quincy were previously badged in another trail. Each of these trails are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.
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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I plan to do some work on this profile soon for the Magna Carta Project.

- now DONE

posted by Michael Cayley
edited by Michael Cayley
I couldn't find support for "Rushbury" (in birth location)
posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Littleton-490 and Littleton-391 appear to represent the same person because: Looks like a duplicate.
posted by Gerald Jones