'Anton1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Anton of Strathfieldsay

                               
Maddison identifies the arms of this family as "Azure, on a fesse or, a bordure ermine". Visitati (1592) identifies them as "Argent, on a fess Or, a bordure "Ermine of 8"."
John Anton of Aunton of Houghton, Yorkshire
m. Eleanor Medhox (dau of _ Medhox of Medhox (Medhop of Medhop))
1. Thomas Anton of Strathfieldsay (Chamberlain to Queen Katherine of Arragon)
  m. Jane Cowdry (Cowdrey)
  A. Thomas Anton of Strathfieldsay, Hampshire (d 1558-9, Clerk of the Court of Wards & Liveries)
  m. Katherine Chamberlayne (d 20.09.1590, dau of James Chamberlayne of Sparsholte, m2. Thomas Harrison of Finchampsted)
  i. Thomas Anton
  m. Elizabeth White
a. Mark Anton
  ii. George Anton of Lincoln (b c1550, a 1612, Recorder of Lincoln, MP)
  m1. (08.01.1589-90) Joan Taylor (d 11.03.1591-2, dau of Thomas Taylor of Doddington & Lincoln)
  a. Thomas Anton (bpt 12.12.1591, d young)
  b. Elizabeth Anton (bpt 15.01.1590-1, d 1658)
  m. (by 1610) Sir Edward Hussey of Honington
  Visitation (1592) identifies George's 2nd wife as "da. of ... Lewin" but Maddison, supported by HoP ("George Anton"), names her ...
  m2. Bridget Fitzwilliam (dau of William Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe)
  c. George Anton of Stamford (bur 11.01.1653-4)
  m. Anne Humphrey (m2. James Margetson of London)
  d. Frances Anton (a 1653-4)
m. William Knight
  e. Bridget Anton
  m. Charles Dye of Messingham (clerk)
  iii. Isabel Anton
  m. Edmund Normanville
  iv. Elizabeth Anton
  m1. Richard Harrison of Berkshire
  m2. Robert Marsh of London
  v. Alice Anton
  m. John Weaver of London & Presteign
  vi. Mary Anton
  m. Henry Randall of London
  vii.+ other issue - Dorothy, Jane/Joane (dsp)
2. John Anton

Main source(s): 'Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees' (1903, 'Anton of Lincoln', p31), Visitation (Walter Metcalfe (1892), Lincolnshire, 1592, 'Anton')
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