'Parkins4'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Perkins of Orton on the Hill

                               
Nichols identifies the arms of this family, quartered with others, as "Sable, an eagle displayed Argent; on a canton of the second, a fess dancette of the first".
Samuel Perkins (d 1465)
1. Thomas Perkins (b c1401, d 1485)
  m. Anne Skidmore (dau of John Skidmore of Richmanshworth)
  A. John Perkins (bpt 1443, d 1515)
m. Priscilla Arderne
  i. Thomas Perkins (bur 1511)
  m1. Alice De Astley of Hill Morton
  a. George Perkins (bpt 1527))
  m. Maria Hayward
  (1) Thomas Perkins (bpt 25.03.1563, d 1627, youngest son)
  m. Margaret "Poutney
  (A) John Perkins (bpt 27.02.1590, bur 29.09.1658)
  m. Margery Ingram (bur 11.1637)
  (i) Thomas Perkins (bpt 08.01.1615, bur 26.01.1658) - continued below
  m. Mary
  (B)+ other issue - Anne (bpt 14.01.1592), Elizabeth (bpt 14.06.1595, bur 08.11.1599), Grace (bpt 25.02.1598)
  (2)+ other issue - Sir Christopher (bpt 1556), William (bpt 1558, bur 1602, cleric), Elizabeth (bpt 10.01.1560)
  m2. Elizabeth

 

 

Thomas Perkins (bpt 08.01.1615, bur 26.01.1658) - continued above
m. Mary
1. Thomas Perkins of Brookhurst, Warwickshire (bpt 25.12.1635, bur 16.11.1706)
m. Mary Buswell (dau of _ Buswell of Little Harborough)
  A. William Perkins (bpt 13.08.1675, d 20.09.1729, 3rd son)
  m. Johanna Marsham
  B. John Perkins (bpt 15.02.1677, bur 20.08.1728, vicar of Orton, rector of Kisslingbury)
  m. Sarah Steele (b 20.05.1681, d 25.08.1735, sister/coheir of Samuel Steele of Orton-on-the-Hill & Moor Barne)
  i. John Perkins (b 09.08.1711, d 21.03.1743)
m. (02.10.1740) Elizabeth Farmer (b 16.02.1719, d 13.03.1782, coheir of Richard Farmer of Witherley by Rebecca (dau of Thomas Moore & niece of Sir John Moore of Appleby))
  a. Samuel Steele Perkins (b 28.07.1742, d 09.05.1808)
  m. Mary Shirley (b 22.03.1744, d 24.06.1810, dau/coheir of Joseph Shirley of Burton-upon-Trent)
  (1) Shirley Farmer Steele Perkins of Sutton Coldfield (b 17.04.1768, a 1810, of Lincoln's Inn)
  m1. Elizabeth Duncombe (b 1768-9, d 27.03.1801, dau/heir of Joseph Duncomb of Sutton Coldfield)
  (A)+ issue - Shirley Steele (d young), Ducomb Steele, William Steele, John Steele (d infant), Elizabeth Steele
  m2. Susan Sharpe (a 1810, dau of Charles Sharpe of Hoddam Castle by Eleonora, granndau of Alexander, 9th Earl of Eglintoun)
  (2) Richard Steele Perkins (5th son)
  m. Anne Jarvis (dau of Joseph Jarvis)
  (3) Thomas Steele Perkins (RM)
  m. Amelia Faddey (dau of Captain _ Faddey)
  (A)+ issue - Henry( d infant), John Steel (b 1807)
  (4)+ other issue - John (d infant), Ralph (d infant), Samuel Steele, lizabeth (b 1769-70, d 30.03.1791), Mary (d infant), Rebecca (d infant),Sarah, Decima
  ii. Theodosia Perkins (b 06.09.1712, d 09.04.1768)
  m. Richard Farmerof Wiltherley
  iii.+ other issue - Samuel (b 09.08.1718,d 11.10.1719), Mary (b 26.02.1713-4, d 22.05.1769), Sarah (b 12.02.1717, d 24.12.1757)
  C. Anne Perkins (bpt 03.09.1680, d 16.11.1723)
  m. John Marlor (d 1714, vicar of Abkettleby)
  i. Mary Marlor
  m. Rev. Richard Wilcox
  D.+ other issue - Thomas (bpt 17.11.1671, bur 25.01.1672), Thomas (bpt 27.11.1672, bur 05.01.1705), Mary (bpt 06.05.1669)
2. Elizabeth Perkins (bpt 15.11.1640)
  m. _ Buswell
3.+ other issue - William (bpt 10.05.1638), Sarah (bpt 28.01.1643)

Main source(s): 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 4, part 2, 1811, 'Pedigree of Perkins of Orton on the Hill', p*854 (just before p853))
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