On May 7, 9:46 pm, jhiggins...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On May 7, 8:15 pm, wjhonson <wjhon...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
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> > As regards Edward Littleton, the father of Elizabeth (Littleton)
> > Meynell, wife of Godfrey, he is apparently the one who has a DNB
> > entry.
>
> > This entry states that he was born in 1626, went to Barbados in 1666,
> > married there "three years later" to a "wealthy lady". And that he
> > was the son of Adam Littleton by his wife Ethelreda Poyntz. We
> > already know that "Audrey" is a common-form of the name Ethelreda.
>
> > Now speaking extem****anously, Adam and Audrey had an elder son Thomas
> > Poyntz Littleton, 2nd Bart who m his cousin Anne Littleton and had a
> > son Thomas Poyntz Littleton, 3rd Bart, Speaker of the House who d.s.p.
>
> > When the last Tom d.s.p. his baronetcy expired, but his estates passed
> > to his (probably surprised) first cousin Elizabeth (Littleton) Meynell
> > who d 1726
>
> > I wish DNB would tell me who her mother was !
>
> > Will Johnson
>
> What is your source for the statement that the estates of Sir Thomas
> Poyntz Littleton, 3rd Baronet (d. 1710) passed to his first cousin
> Elizabeth (Littleton) Meynell? The biography of Sir Thomas in
> "History of Parliament 1660-1690" says that the estates passed to a
> cousin James. The bio of Sir Thomas in ODNB appears to say nothing
> about the heir of his estates.
>
> As to the parents of Elizabeth Littleton, the ODNB bio of the Edward
> Littleton who went to Barbados says that Edward and his wife Dorothy
> Booth had no children. If so, Elizabeth must be a daughter of a
> different Edward Littleton and thus not a cousin of the 3rd Baronet.
>
> There were a number of branches of Littletons [or Lytteltons] at this
> time. The name of Littleton Poyntz Meynell certainly suggests a
> connection with Sir Adam Littleton and Audrey/Ethelreda Poyntz, but it
> seems unclear as what the connection is.
I may have answered part of my question. I notice that VCH Es*** vol.
7 sub North Ockenden says that Sir Thomas' estate of North Ockenden
passed by his will to Mrs. Elizabeth Meynell (d. 1726), a grand-
daughter of Sir Adam Littleton. On the other hand, its sources are
not the best: Morant's Es***, plus an early edition (1847) of BLG,
plus the old DNB (perhaps now corrected by ODNB?). The VCH article
also mentions another son of Sir Adam, William, who had a dau. Dorothy
- perhaps this William also had a daughter Elizabeth.....and the
reference to her father being Edward may be wrong.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/re****t.aspx?compid=42824
There is also a very detailed biography of Sir Thomas, 3rd Baronet in
"History of Parliament 1690-1715", which is available in preview mode
via Google Books - except, unfortunately, for the pages which cover
his death and the sources for the article.
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