'Fenton03'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Fenton of Crake, Fenton of Gleadleys, Fenton of Hanswort, Fenton of Newcastle, Fenton of Sheffield

                               
Thomas Fenton of Crake, Yorkshire
m. _ Surtees of Teesdale
1. Christopher Fenton of Crake
  m. Elizabeth Gower (dau of Sir John Gower of Stitnam)
  A. Thomas Fenton of Crake (a 1584)
  m1. Anne Fox (dau of James Fox of Thorpe)
  i.+ issue - Thomas (b c1560), Jane
  m2. Mary Dent (dau of Thomas Dent of Ellenthorpe)
  iii+. other issue - Anthony, Humphrey, Jane
  B. John Fenton (4th son)
  i.+ issue - John, Christopher
  C. Mary Fenton
  m. Richard Bromfield of Hertfordshire
  D.+ other issue - Francis (dsp), Anthony (dsp), Christopher
2.+ other issue - Anthony (dsp), Thomas (priest)

 

 

Richard Fenton
1. William Fenton of Hansworth (bpt 02.02.1575-6) probably father of ...
  A. William Fenton of Gleadleys in Hansworth (d 06.03.1686)
  m. (14.12.1637) Ann Nodder (bpt 09.03.1605-6, bur 06.07.1674, dau of John Nodder of Hansworth & Woodthorpe)
  i. Alexander Fenton of Gleadleys (b 1638, d 01.01.1709)
m. Elizabeth (b 1651, d 18.10.1724)
  a. William Fenton of Gleadleys (bpt 15.09.1670, d 24.01.1713)
  m. Elizabeth (m2. George Lee of Sheffield, m3. John Cowley of Doncaster)
  (1) Elizabeth Fenton (bpt 25.12.1694, a 1698)
  b. John Fenton of Little Sheffield (bpt 08.03.1687-8, bur 05.02.1761, 3rd son)
  m. (24.01.1721-2) Ann Lee (bpt 27.08.1684, bur 15.11.1762, dau of Jonathan Lee of Ecclesal)
(1) Elizabeth Fenton (bpt 03.12.1724)
  m. (31.12.1748) John Rotherham of Dronfield
  (2)+ other issue - John (bpt 07.06.1727, bur 09.08.1733), Ann (b 25.04.1723, d young), Debora (bpt 01.04.1730, bur 13.06.1730)
  c. Ann Fenton (bpt 20.07.1672)
  m. _ Walker
  d. Debora Fenton (bpt 30.08.1681, d 10.01.1740-11)
  m. (c1711) John Nodder of Sheffield
  e. Judith Fenton (bpt 27.11.1685, d 06.07.1755)
  m. James Bright of Brincliffe Edge
  f. Rebecca Fenton (bpt 31.10.1694)
  m. _ Lambert
  (1) Matthew Lambert
g. Mary Fenton
  m. Jonathan Spooner of Sheffield
  h.+ other issue (d unm) - Alexander (bpt 06.10.1683, bur 15.06.1685), Joseph of Gleadleys (bpt 21.02.1696-7, d 31.01.1724), Elizabeth (bpt 27.08.1674, bur 24.11.1755), Ruth (bpt 26.10.1676, bur 09.07.1678), Hannah (bpt 09.10.1679, d 20.05.1735)
  ii. William Fenton of Sheffield (bpt 04.06.1643, bur 03.08.1696)
  a. Ann Fenton
  m. William Burton of Royds Mill
  b. Hannah Fenton (d 07.1740)
  m. (04.09.1690) Thomas Handley of Hall Carr
  c.+ other issue - Esther (bpt 07.04.1680, bur 21.05.1700), Ruth
  iii. Ann Fenton (bpt 10.08.1651, d 25.12.1688)
  m. Robert Green of Waterthorpe
  iv.+ other issue - John (bpt 29.11.1640, bur 16.06.1645), Ruth (bpt 12.02.1645)

 

 

Matthew Fenton
m. _ Wilson of Sheffield ## see here ##
1. ?? Fenton of Sheffield
  A. Francis Fenton of Sheffield (Lt. Colonel)
  m1. (Elizabeth) Roebuck (dau of Benjamin Roebuck, sister/coheir of Benjamin of Sheffield)
  i. Benjamin Roebuck Fenton of Sheffield
  m. (1808) ) Micklethwaite of Skelbrook
  ii.+ other issue - Henry, Charles, daughter
  m2. Helen Crosland of Deadmanston
  i.+ other issue - Francis in London, John Batty, James, Helen, Kaye
  B. daughter
  m. _ Gainsford
  i. Robert Gainsford of Sheffield (plater)
  m. _ Robinson of Hassop
  a. Robert Gainsford
  ii. daughter
  m. M. Huish of Nottingham (d 1824)
  iii.+ other issue (a 1815) - Francis Greaves (artist), daughter
  C.+ 2 daughters (a 1812, d unm?)
2. John Fenton of Portobello (d unm, apothecary)

 

 

James Fenton (a 1630)
1. John Fenton
  A. John Fenton
  i. Thomas Fenton (recorder of Newcastle)
  m. Anne Cradock (dau of John Cradock)
  a. John Fenton of Newcastle (d 03.1782)
  m. Anastasia Cradock (dau of John Cradock of Betley, brother of Anne)
  (1) Anne Fenton ((d 22.10.1821, coheir)
  m. (08.05.1781) Sir Thomas Fletcher of Newcastle-under-Line & Betley, 1st Bart (b 25.11.1747, d 14.07.1812)
  B. Elijah Fenton (b 20.05.1683, d 16.07.1730, poet) dates fromn Wikipedia
2. Daniel Fenton of Cheddeton, Staffordshire
  A. John Fenton (d 10.1760, 2nd son)
  i. Elizabeth Fenton (b 06.10.1717, d 15.06.1775, coheir)
  m. Thomas Fletcher of Newcastle-under-Line (b 01.1716-7, d 1783)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (orginally uploaded within a Draft page on 28.07.09, moved here 06.05.16) : Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5, Fenton of Crake)
(2) For 2nd section(uploaded 06.05.16) : FMG (vol 2, MS340, 'Fenton', p823+)
(3) For 3rd section (uploaded 26.08.16) : FMG (Continuation ('Hunter's Pedigrees', 1936), 'Fenton of Sheffield and of Fenton', p61+)
(4) For lower section (uploaded 13.09.21) : BP1934 ('Boughey'), 'The Baronetage of England' (William Betham, vol 4 (1804), '#458. Fletcher, of Newcastle-under-Line, and Betley, Staffordshire', p402+)
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