The Wiltons of Cornwall

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Cornwall, England
Surnames/tags: wilton courtenays

Contents 1 The Wiltons of Cornwall 2 Available online at these locations 3 Blurb 4 Table of Contents

The Wiltons of Cornwall

• by Robert C. Wilton
• published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd, 1989
• Source Example:

<span id='Wilton'></span>Wilton, Robert C. ''[[Space:The Wiltons of Cornwall|The Wiltons of Cornwall]]'' (R. C. Wilton, Looe, Cornwall., 1989)

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<ref>[[#Wilton|Wilton]]: Page 134</ref>

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Available online at these locations

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Blurb

Wilton, as a place-name, was first introduce into Cornwall by the Abbess and nuns of Wilton in Wiltshire, some time before the mid-12th century. By that date they held a number of properties around St Nonna's Chantry Chapel in Pelynt Parish, some two miles from Looe. The properties are still called Wilton and it cannot be a coincidence that the first person called Wilton in Cornwall was in a parish surrounded by Wilton property. He was born around 1450, was evidently of some affluence and well-connected... which prompts the questions of his reason for substituting Wilton for his proper patronymical inheritance and what was the earlier history of his family? A still bigger question is whether all Cornish Wiltons and their overseas cousins descend from that original Wilton?

After twenty-five years of research the author believes he has answered most questions about the clan. Having cleared up confusion with Wilkin and Wilkey names, he has indeed established that the many thousands of Cornish Wiltons living in Australia, Canada and the U.S.A., plus the few thousand that remain in Cornwall and Devon (around Liskeard) are all descended from that original Wilton of 1450. He has systematically searched parish registers, muster rolls, poll and hearth tax records, indentures, wills and other probate records in his tireless search for every branch of the family and in the attempt to establish the origin of the first Wilton. A third generation Canadian Wilton, Robert Wilton became so absorbed by his task that he moved his home across the Atlantic and has lived in Looe for more than ten years, the better to pursue his research.

His book will interest many in families linked by marriage to the Wiltons, the Burells, Bullers, Courtenays and Trethurfes, among others. It will also appeal to family historians generally in that the author at all stages discusses his approach and methodology. But its principal appeal must be to the Wiltons, world wide, for whom he provides the fruits of a quarter century of unprecedented study of their family.

Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations, Tables and Pedigrees
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Foreword
• I. Beginnings
• II. Earlier Linkages
• III. Emerging Lines
• IV. Connecting Links
• V. Conclusions
• VI. Supplement
• Supplemental Notes and References to Section VI
• Appendix A: Wilton Marriages in Cornwall 1537-1837
• Appendix B: Wilkey Marriages in Cornwall 1537-1837
• Appendix C: Wilkin Marriages in Cornwall 1537-1837
• Appendix D: Wilton/Wilkey/Wilkin Name Interchanges
• Appendix E: St. Catherine's House Index of Wilton Events
• Appendix F: Richard Wilton
• Notes
• Index