'Portington1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Portington of Barnby, Portington of Portington, Portington of Sawcliffe

                               
John de Portington 'of Portington'
m. Matilda
1. Robert de Portington
  A. Nicholas de Portington (a 1349)
  i. Edmund de Portington (a 1349)
  a. Thomas de Portington (a 1402)
  (1) John de Portington (judge)
  m1. Elena
  (A) John Portington
  m. Margaret (a 1440)
The following connection is wholly speculative and is made solely to find a place in this pedigree for the undermentioned John, father of Joane. Accordingly, it should be viewed as possibly being wholly spurious.
  (i) ?? Portington presumed intermediary generation
  (a) John Portington of Portington
  m. Ann Laughton (dau of John Laughton of Laughton)
  ((1)) Joane Portington
  m1. Michael Warton of Beverley (b c1510)
  m2. Ralph Rokeby
  (B) Richard Portington of Sawcliffe (3rd son) - continued below the first mentioned by Maddison
  Visitation (Yorkshire, 1612, Portington of Portington) identifies Richard's wife as Julian, dau/heir of Thomas de Lisle. Maddison identifies her as ...
  m. Julian Lesley (d 02.07.1509, dau/heir of Thomas Lesley of Felton)
  (C) Robert Portington
  The following comes from Visitation (Yorkshire, 1612, Portington of Barnby Don) & Visitation (Dugdale, Yorkshire, 1665, Portington of Barnby Super Don).
  m. Elizabeth Paslew (dau/heiir of Robert Paslew)
  (i) Thomas Portington of Barnby
  m. Isabel Kiddall (dau/heir of Anthony Kiddall of Lincolnshire)
  (a) John Portington
  m. _ Copley (dau of Thomas Copley of Batley)
  ((1)) Lyonell Portington of Barnby
m. Isabel Wentworth (dau of Roger Wentworth)
  ((A)) Sir Roger Portington (dsp)
  m. Mary Sandford (dau of Henry Sandford)
  ((2)) William Portington of Tudworth
  ((A)) Robert Portington of Barnby (a 1612)
  m. Susan Coventry
  ((i)) Robert Portington of Barnby (b c1587)
m. Isabel Darley (dau of Sir Richard Darley of Buttercrambe)
  ((a)) Roger Portington of Barnby (b c1610, a 09.1665)
  m. Jane Ramsden (dau of (John) Ramsden of Lascells Hall, widow of Leonard Wray of Cusworth)
  (((1)))+ issue (a 1665) - Roger (b c1638), Raphe
  ((b)) Robert Portington 'of Barnby' (d 23.12.1660)
  m. (1643) Grace Gregory (dau of Gilbert Gregory of Barnby)
  (((1)))+ issue (a 1665) - Roger, Robert, Gilbert, Francis, Grace, Elizabeth, Anne
((c)) Mary Portington
  m. Joseph Holden of London
  ((d)) Elizabeth Portington
  m. Thomas Taylor of Thurne
  ((ii)) Jane Portington
  m. Nicholas More of Austrope
  (b) Anne Portington probably of this generation
  m. Sir Bryan Hastings of Fenwick
  (c) Elizabeth Portington possibly of this generation, a generation earlier?
  m1. Robert (probably not Nicholas) Maleverer of Letwell
  m2. Hugh Cressy of Letwell & Barnby Don
(D) Elizabeth Portington possibly of this generation
  m. Walter Grymeston of Grimston (d 1496)
  (E)+ other issue - Thomas, Nicholas/Michael
  Visitation shows John as married only to Elena. The Haldenby source (MGH) suggests that he had a daughter Isabella by a second wife ...
  m2. Margaret Mills (dau/heir of Richard Mills)
  (F) Isabel Portington
  m. John Haldenby of Haldenby
  (2) Edmund de Portington (a 1440)
2. Ann Portington possibly of this generation
  m. Henry de Babthorpe

 

 

Richard Portington of Sawcliffe, Linicolnshire (3rd son) - continued above
m. Julian Lesley, heiress of Sawcliffe (d 02.07.1509, dau/heir of Thomas Lesley of Felton)
1. John Portington (dvm)
  m. _ Foster (dau of Giles Foster)
A. Thomas Portington 'of Sawcliffe' 'of Roxby', Sheriff of Lincolnshire (d before 20.08.1540)
  m1. (before 24.01.1509-10) Julian Aske (dau of Sir Robert of Aughton (not of his son John))
  i. Henry Portington of Sawcliffe (d before 28.05.1560)
  m. Maude Tyrwhit (dau of Sir Robert Tyrwhit)
  a. John Portington of Sawcliffe (d 12.12.1579)
  m. Anne Langton (dau of John Langton of Langton, m2. Edmund Skerne of Waltham)
  (1) Thomas Portington of Sawcliffe 'of Portington' (a 1592)
  m. Elizabeth Skipwith (dau of Sir William Skipwith of South Ormsby)
(A) Henry Portington (b c1595, d before 09.09.1679)
  m. Elizabeth
  (i) Michael Portington 'of Portington' (d by 1705)
  m. Barbara Neville (dau of Gervase Nevile of Beeston)
  (ii)+ other issue - John, Henry, Grace, Anne, Dorothy, Jane
  (B) Anne Portington
  m1. William Skipwith of South Ormsby (d 1622)
  m2. (09.10.1623) Francis Guevara of Stenigot
  (C) Ursula Portington
  m. Alexander Vavasour of Spaldington
  (D)+ other issue - John, Elizabeth, Frances
  (2) Michael Portington (d before 12.11.1631)
  m. Anne Beaumont (dau of Edward Beaumont of Carlton)
  (A)+ issue - Michael, Joan, Anne
(3)+ other issue - George, Edward, Roger, Ralph, John
  b. George Portington
  m. Cassandra Peeke (dau/coheir of _ Peeke of Bratoft?)
  (1) Anthony Portington of Owston, Isle of Axholme
  m. (02.06.1600) Bridget Belfield (or dau of GFrancis Portington of Yorkshire)
  (A) Katharine Portington
  m. William Heneage of Hainton, later of Yorkshire
  (B) Maudlyn Portington
  m. (?) Edmund Leeds
  (C)+ other issue - Edward (b c1606), Susan (bpt 21.11.1603), Cassandra (bpt 16.08.1608), Anne, Elizabedth
  (2) Edward Portington
  (3) Katharine Portington
  m. Edward Disney of Fulbeck
  (4) Mary Portington
  m. John Townsend
  c. Julian Portington
  m1. Alexander Nevile
  m2. (24.09.1566) Edward Skipwith of Habrough
d. Elizabeth Portington
  m1. James Trowsdale of Hundon
  m2. (?) Robert Leeds of Laceby
  e.+ other issue - Richard, Robert
  ii. Thomas Portington of Castlethorpe (d before 09.10.1550)
  m. Alice Johnson (a 1550, dau of John Johnson, widow of Leonard Cutris of Grimsby)
  a.+ issue - Thomas (dvp), Robert (a 1550)
  iii. Margaret Portington
  m. Richard Yarborough of Yarborough
  iv. Anne Portington
  m. Nicholas Girlington
  v. daughter
  m. Thomas Santon of Santon (cousin)
  vi.+ other issue (a 1540) - Anthony, George
  m2. Anne Ayscough (dau of Edward Ayscough, brother of Sir WIlliam of Stallingborough, m2. William Burgh of Kirton in Lindsey)
  B. George Portington of Barton-on-Humber (d before 05.08.1528)
  m. Anne Peck
  C. Isabella Portington (d before 16.07.1540)
  m. Robert Santon of Santon (d before 12.05.1498)
  D. Mary Portington
  m. Anthony Nevile

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : Visitation (Yorkshire, 1612, Portington of Portington) with input as reported above
(2) For lower section : Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees (1906, Portington of Sawcliffe in Roxby) with some support from Visitation (Yorkshire, 1612, Portington of Portington)
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