The arms of the Wilsons are: Party silver and azure three lion's gams barwise
in pale erased counterchanged. The crest is A lion's head erased silver gutty
gules
CHRISTOPHER
, CHRISTOPHER II , JOHN, PAUL, SARAH, THOMASANGIER
, BAYNTON, BILEY, BIRTE, BRETHERTON, BYTHEWAY, COOMBE, DANYELL, DOVE, HIDE, HOLMES, IVYE, MAILARD, MORVEN, ST. BARBE, SWAYNE, THACHER, THISTLEWAITE, TAPPAN, TORREY, WHITE, WILSON, WINDEVERThe derivation on the name Batt has not been settled as there is great differences of surname authorities. That it is of ancient origin is certain as there was a Batt that was Mayor of London in the year 1240 and Henry Batt was a juror in an inquisition post mortem in 1362 and a John Batt was a juror in 1370, both of which were in Wiltshire, the county from which our ancestors descended. Our concern is with more recent times.
A study of the original parish and probate records of the city of Salisbury, co. Wilts. by Mr. J. Henry Lee, a noted genealogist, and printed in the NEHGR, vol 52 pg. 46-49, gives us the following English genealogy of the Batt family.
1. _________ BATT, of the parish of St. Thomas the Martyr, Salisbury, Wilts, was deceased before Oct. 1557 and buried in the Church of St. Thomas.
2. JOHN BATT, born about 1515; died Oct. 1557; married, MARGARET (THISTLEWAITE) HOLMES, widow of William Holmes and daughter of Alexander Thistlewaite. John was a tanner of St. Edmund's parish, Salisbury, Co. Wilts. In his will, he requested to be buried in St. Thomas the Martyr, near where his father was buried. His wife died in 1559 and was buried at St. Edmund's next to her first husband.
3. CHRISTOPHER BATT, born, probably, about 1545. He was not of age when his mother made her will in 1559. He married ALICE ST. BARBE on 8 July 1568. He was buried at St. Martin's on 31 Aug. 1581. His widow married on 19 Nov. 1582, Edward Hide.
4. THOMAS BATT, baptized at St. Martin's on 30 Dec. 1571; married at St. Edmund's, 29 Sept. 1600, JOAN BILEY, daughter of HENRY BILEY, tanner, and his wife, ALICE, widow of Robert Bytheway. Thomas was buried at St. Martin's, 20 Feb. 1632 and his wife was buried at St. Edmund's, 24 Dec
5. CHRISTOPHER BATT, of St. Edmund's, afterwards of St. Martin's, tanner, baptized 6 July 1601; married 12 Oct. 1629 (by licence) at St. Edmund's, to ANNE BAYNTON of Salisbury, spinster, then aged 26. In May 1638, with wife Anne, sister Dorthie, and five children under the age of ten years, embarked on the ship Bevis of Southampton for New England. They settled at Newbury and was a freeman there 13 Mar. 1640. He removed to Salisbury, of which he became representative in 1640, 41, 43, and 50. He removed to Boston in 1651 and became a prominent merchant there. He was accidentally killed by his own son shooting at a mark in his orchard. He died 10 Aug 1661 and his will was proved 18 Sept. 1661. His widow's will was dated 14 Mar. 1679.
6. PAUL BATT, born 18 Feb. 1643 in Salisbury, Mass.; settled in Boston as a merchant and died there in 1678. He married, about 1672, SARAH WILSON. She married secondly, 5 May 1680, Josiah Torrey
The book Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury only lists Sarah and Paul; The NEHGR, in dealing with the Wilson's, states that Paul Sr. had three children. without naming them.
7. SARAH BATT, born 18 Jan. 1673 at Boston, Mass.; married (1)MICAJAH TORREY; married (2) Deacon Samuel White, 2 Oct. 1725.
SOURCE:
1. Generation 1-5: The Ancestry of Peter Lunt.
2. Gen. 1-5: NEHGR, vol 51, pg. 181-7 & 352-7; vol 52, pg. 44-9.
3. Generation 5: Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass.
NOTE: Nicholas Batt that came to New England in 1636 and was a relative to Christopher Batt, and was an ancestor of Franklin Pierce, president of the U.S.
The Bayntons are of an ancient race. Sidney, in his Treatise on Government, affirms that, in antiquity of possession and name, few of the nobility equal the family of Baynton. (Bourkes Commoners of Britain.
Baynton is a manor in the parish of Edington, Wiltshire, where there is still a hamlet by that name. It is probable that the Baynton family originated there. (The Ancestry of Abel Lunt; Walter Goodwin Davis.
Davis states that Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle (1616-1633), of the College of Arms drew up a pedigree of the Bayntons of Wiltshire. He began the Baynton line with a Sir Henry Baynton of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, in the reign of King Henry II. Following Sir Henry appear seven generations of Bayntons, undated and undocumented, but mostly supplied with wives. Davis states that there may be an element of truth in what Bluemantle has written but it would be a wise course to disregard them. I will however include them at the end of the Baynton line for the readers discretion. The first Baynton from which a sound pedigree can be drawn was that of Thomas de Baynton.
1. THOMAS de BAYNTON was born, probably about 1300 and died May 28 1358. He married MARGARET de GRIMSTEDE, daughter of RICHARD de GRIMSTEDE and EDITH de TABLIER Margaret died in July 1340. It was thru the Grimstedes that Thomas acquired the manor of Fallardstone in the Parish of Bishopstone, co. Wilts, about five miles southwest of Salisbury.
2. NICHOLAS de BAYNTON was born about 1334 as he was said to have been 24 and more in 1358 when his father died. He married about 1360 JOAN d'AUNDELY.
3. NICHOLAS de BAYNTON was born about 1381 (21 years after his father's marriage?) or possibly a few years earlier. He married in 1400 JOAN de la ROCHE, daughter of JOHN de la ROCHE and his wife WILLELMA, daughter of SIR ROBERT de la MERE and his wife MAUD (see "The Ancestry of Joan de la Roche", pg. 73 generation 10. Nicholas died in 1421. His widow, Joan, married before 1429 William Whaplode of Chalfont St. Peter, co. Buchinghamshire, who was a member of Parliament as Knight of the Shire in 1420 and 1430.
4. SIR JOHN BAYNTON was born about 1407, as his age was 4 years when his grandmother, Lady de la Roche, died in 1411. The great family pedigree and visitation of 1623 gave the name of his wife as JANE ETCHINGHAM. daughter of Sir William Etchingham, of Etchingham, co. Sussex. However, when Sir John died in 1465, he left a widow Katherine. There is no absolute proof that Jane Etchingham was the mother of Sir John's children, but inasmuch as she was named in the visitation, we will go on the assumption that she was. Jane, as will be seen later, was a descendant of King Henry III and also the Earls of Surrey and Sussex, the Earls of Warwick, and the Earls of Oxford. Sir John was knighted before May 1, 1434 and from 1440 until his death he was a member of a long series of commissions. In 1443-44 he was sheriff of Wilts, and in 1445, 46, and 49 he represented his county in Parliament. His home is consistently recorded as Fallesdon or Falston. Sir John died 20 Jun. 1465.
5. SIR ROBERT BAYNTON was born about 1430, presumably in Fallardston, the inquest of his father in 1465, recording his age as 26. His wife Elizabeth was ELIZABETH HAUTE, a daughter of William and Joan (Wydville) Haute of Waddenhall, co. Kent, and a cousin of Elizabeth Wydville, queen of Edward IV. Sir Robert was a partisan of Lancaster in the Wars of the Roses and at the battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471, he fought for Henry VI whose fate was decided on that day, and was taken prisoner by the forces of Edward IV, now firmly seated on the English throne. Sir Robert was immediately declared a traitor and attainted, losing thereby all his property and possibly his life as he was dead before 6 Oct. 12 Edward IV (1473).
6. JOHN BAYNTON was born about 1460, presumably at Fallardston. The visitation of 1565 says that he married JOAN DIGGES, daughter of THOMAS DIGGES of Kent. No Thomas Digges of the proper period has been found in any of the Digges pedigrees and Thomas may have been a misreading or an error. On 1 Jul. 1504, John obtained a reversal of the attainer of his father, Robert Baynton late of Fallardston, knight. Thus John recovered the many family manors.
In 1511 John had the good fortune to become an heir of Richard Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand, his second cousin once removed (they had common great grand parents). John Baynton died on 31 Oct. 1516, his wife having predeceased him. He made his will 27 Oct. 1515, and it was proved on 26 Feb. 1515/7. He was to be buried in the parish church of St. Nicholas, Bronham, co. Wilts, in the chapel of the Blessed Mary, now called Baynton Chapel, but this beautiful building should have more properly been called the Beauchamp chapel. On the floor of the chapel at Bromham is a slab bearing a brass effigy of a man in armor, nearly three feet long, and an inscription in Latin (translated): Pray for the soul of John Baynton, Arminger, son and heir of Robert Baynton, knight, kinsman and heir of Richard Beauchamp, Lord Amand, who died the last day of October, Anno Domini, on whose soul may God have mercy. Amen. There are four shields around the effigy, bearing: (a) quarterly 1 and 4 a bend lozengy (Baynton), 2 two lions passant guardant (de la Mere), 3 three roaches in pale naiant (Roche); (b) quarterly 1 and 4 Baynton, 2 de la Mere, 3 Roche: impaling on a cross five cresents (called Griffith ap Elidir by the parish historian); (c) same as b, (d) same as a.
7. SIR EDWARD BAYNTON was born about 1480 and married about 1505, as his first wife, Elizabeth Suliard, daughter od Sir John Suliard, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Sir Edward married as his second wife, ISABEL LEIGH, daughter of Ralph Leigh of Stockwell in the parish of Lambeth, co. Surrey and his wife Joyce Colpepper, a descendant of King Edward I, thru Gilbert de Clare, the Verdons, and Ferrers. No record has been found of the death of his first wife but he married Isabel Leigh about 18 Jan. 1531/2. Sir Edward was a courtier, a soldier, and, like his ancestors, a prominent figure in his native county of Wilts. There are many documents concerning Sir Edward and his wives and their association with King Henry VIII and his court. In the summer of 1540 King Henry married Isabel's half sister, as his fifth wife, Katherine Howard. This marriage lasted but 18 months when Katherine was put to death.
The will of Sir Edward was made 8 Jul. 1544, just before he accompanied King Henry on his invasion of France. He died about four months later. The will was proved 21 May 1545 and he asks to be buried in the parish church.
8. HENRY BAYNTON was born about 1536, presumably at Bromham, his age being given as "nine years and more" in November, 1545, in the inquest post mortem of his father. He was then living in Chelsea, co. Middlesex, with his mother. He married ANNE CAVENDISH, daughter of Sir William Cavendish and his first wife, Margaret Bostock, daughter of John Bostock.
9. FERNANDO BAYNTON, baptized in Bromham on 28 May 1566, married about 1598, possibly in Calne, co. Wilts, JANE WEARE, alias BROWN, daughter of John Weare, alias Brown. Jane's grandfather, William Weare, alias Brown, an innholder of Salisbury, left to her all his lands and tenements in Salisbury by his will of 1585. Thus, Ferdinando became an innholder thru his wife's inheritance.
10. ANNE BAYNTON was born 23 Sep. bapt. 30 Dec. 1602. Married by licence at St. Edmunds, Salisbury, 12 Oct. 1629, CHRISTOPHER BATT.
SOURCE: "THE ANCESTRY OF ABEL LUNT 1769-1806 OF NEWBURY,
MASSACHUSETTS" by Walter Goodwin Davis; Portland Maine- The Anthoensen Press- 1963.
This book gives much more detail than what is given here and also gives an account of the Batts of St. Edmunds as well as the St. Barbes and other Richardson ancestors. It also cites sources which was not duplicated in this paper.
Also see "THE ANCESTRY OF MARY ISAAC" by W. G. Davis, Portland, Maine i955 for additional information on the Bayntons and other ancestors.
Also see "ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF SIXTY COLONISTS" by Frederick Lewis Weis, sixth edition 1988; Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore; Line 248
Under construction
1. THOMAS HOOKER, of Blaston, co. Leicester; will dated 2 Sept. 1555, proved 22 Jan.
1562; executrix was Cecilia, his relic. This Thomas Hooker is supposed to have held some
stewardship or the like, under the Digby Family.
2. JOHN HOOKER, of Blaston; will dated 6 Nov. 1558; proved 19 Jan. 1559. His son:
3. THOMAS HOOKER, of Birstall, and afterwards of Marefield, co. Leicester, yeoman, buried at Tilton, 24 July 1635. His son:
4. REV. THOMAS HOOKER, the celebrated founder and Pastor of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636. He was curate of Esher, Surrey, and lecturer at Chelmsford, Essex, until silenced by Archbishop Laud in 1626. He was Private Schoolmaster at Little Baddow, Essex. He went to Rotterdam in 1630, and to New England in the ship Griffin, arriving at Boston 4 Sept. 1633. He was the Pastor of the First Congregation Church at Newtown, Mass. until he removed with his congregation to Hartford, Ct. He was born in 1586; educated at Market Boswell School and Queens College. He received a B.A. from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1608; an M.A. in 1611. He was Dixie Fellow in 1609-18. He married, at Amersham, Bucks, 1 Apr. 1621, SUSAN GARBRAND, daughter of RICHARD GARBRAND (buried at St. Mary's, Oxford, 7 Jan. 1601), bookseller to the University, by his wife, ANNE FERRARS (baptized 25 Feb. 1551; buried 1609). Rev Thomas Hooker died 7 July 1647.
5. SARAH HOOKER, born 1629; married REV. JOHN WILSON.
NOTE: Sarah Hooker and her husband, John Wilson, are ancestors of William Howard Taft, 27th U.S. president.
NOTE: THOMAS HOOKER, #2 above, is an ancestor of John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 30th U.S. president; and also Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. president
The genalogy of St. Barbe from Robert, ca 1240 to Alice, ca 1550..
The ancestry of the St. Barbes is probably of Norman origin as there was a town and three villages in Normandy with that name. It is also probable that the St. Barbes came into England with the "Conqueror". In England, the St. Barbes held the manor of South Brent in the parish of the same name in co. Somerset from the abbots of Glastonbury.
In 1623, the heralds, Henry St. George, - Richmond Herald, and Sampson Lennard, - Bluemantle Pursuivant, made a visitation of Wiltshire, in which County a branch of the St. Barbe family had settled and from which visitation a thirteen generation pedigree appears. The visitations were pedigrees of families, as a family member had recalled, and are to be taken only as clues for a documented pedigree and should not be taken as absolute truth.
The first name in the pedigree was:
1. ROBERT ST. BARBE who was the father of:
2. ROBERT ST. BARBE, son and heir of Robert St Barbe, by deed, without date, granted to the abbot of Glastonbury all the right that he had in the wardship of the heir Robert Brent.
3. RICHARD ST. BARBE, son and heir, by a deed dated 23 Edward I (1294-1295), assigned over to Geoffrey Fromond, lord of Glastonbury.
4. RICHARD ST. BARBE, son and heir, joint grantee in Abbot Fromond's grant to his father in 23 Edward I.
5. JOHN ST. BARBE, son and heir, married MARGARET LONGLAND, (or Langland) daughter of SIR HUMPHREY LANGLAND and MARGARET DE FURNEAUX.
6. RICHARD ST. BARBE, father of:
7. THOMAS ST.BARBE, married JANE, daughter of Richard HARECOURT.
8. JOHN ST. BARBE, son and heir, of Ashington, said to have married JANE, daughter of John SIDENHAM of Brimpton d'Evercy, co. Somerset. He was sheriff of Somerset, 1458.
9. RICHARD ST. BARBE, son and heir, said to have married MARGERY GRAY, daughter of Humphrey Grey of Enfield and Whittington, Co. Stafford.
10. THOMAS ST. BARBE, born about 1518, married JOAN __?__. He died 1572/3.
11. ALICE ST. BARBE, married (1) at St Martin's, Salisbury, 8 July 1568, CHRISTOPHER BATT. married (2) at St Martin's, 19 Nov. 1582, Edward Hide.
SOURCE:
The name Wilson is an ancient name and probably of Danish origin, dating back to the time of Alfred the Great. That was a period when the Danes ruled most of what is now called England. The earliest record of our Wilson ancestry is that of--
1. WILLIAM WILSON, of Penrith, co. Cumberland, England. He was born probably within a decade of 1490. The parish registers of Penrith, which begin in 1556, show over 120 entries of the name Wilson up to the year 1600, which indicates that the Wilsons had been in that area for several generations prior to 1556.
The son of William Wilson was another-
2. WILLIAM WILSON, who was born about 1515, removed from Penrith to Welbourn, co. Lincoln. He died at Windsor Castle, co. Berks (where his son was prebendary) 27 Aug. 1587. The name of his wife is not known.
3. REV. WILLIAM WILSON, born about 1542, graduated at Merton College, Oxford, M.A. 1570, D.D. 1607. He married firstly, about 1575, ISABEL WOODHALL, daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH (GRINDALL) WOODHALL, (son of JOHN WOODHALL and JENNETT CRAKEPLACE) and sister to Catherine, wife of Alexander Wilson (ii above). Elizabeth Grindall Woodhall was a daughter of WILLIAM GRINDALL and a sister to Rev. Edmund Grindall, who became Archbishop of Canterbury. He married secondly, Anne Webb, sister of Rev. Erasmus Webb, canon of Windsor. She died in 1612 without issue.
Rev. William Wilson was rector of Islip, Oxfordshire, Co. Kent, 1593; prebendary of St. Paul's, London, 1595-1615, and of Rochester Cathedral, 1591-1614. About 1580 he became chaplain to Edmund Grindall, Archbishop of Canterbury, and in 1583 became canon of Windsor, holding this position for thirty two years, until his death 15 May 1615, aged 73, and was buried in the chapel of St. George, Windsor Castle, where a monumental brass to his memory states that he was "beloved of all in his life, and much lamented in his death.
4. REV. JOHN WILSON, born at Windsor, co Berks, England, about Dec. 1588. He obtained a B.A. at Christ College in 1606 and an M.A. in 1609. During this time he was converted to the principles of the Puritans. In 1620, after preaching at several places, he officiated at Sudbury, co. Suffolk. He held this position for ten years with great acceptance to his parishioners. But after being persecuted and often suspended for his non-conformity, he encouraged and supported the colonization of the Mass. Bay, and he joined the first emigration, coming to New England in 1630 with Gov. Winthrop, in the ship Arbella. His wife and children stayed behind in England. He returned to England a year later and brought back his wife, son John and daughter Elizabeth. A few months after his return to Boston, he was installed as pastor of the First Church of Boston, being succeeded as teacher by the celebrated Rev. John Cotton. In this position he continued for thirty five years until his death, 7 Aug. 1652.
He married, about 1617, ELIZABETH MANSFIELD, daughter of JOHN MANSFIELD, Esq. Master of the Minorities and Queen's Surveyor, temp. Elizabeth, by ELIZABETH his wife, and sister of Anne Mansfield wife of Capt. Robert Keayne, the founder of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston.
Rev. John Wilson was well thought of in his day. He had many published works. His house was located on the northwest corner of the present State and Devonshire streets in Boston. He received many grants of land among which were 1000 acres in what is now the present towns of Amherst and Merrimack, N.H.; 750 acres at Braintree, and 200 acres at Mystic.
5. REV. JOHN WILSON, born in England, in Sept. 1621, came to New England with his father on his second voyage, in May 1632. He graduated in the first class at Harvard College, in 1642. After preaching several years he became assistant to Rev. Richard Mather, at Dorchester, in 1649, and after two years service there, he removed to Medfield soon after the settlement of that place, and in Dec. 1652, was installed as the first minister of the new town, where he was ordained pastor on 12 Oct. 1652, in which service he remained for forty years. His homestead in Medfield was situated on the site of the present Town Hall. He married, about 1648, SARAH HOOKER,NOTE: daughter of REV. THOMAS HOOKER of Hartford, Conn.
6. SARAH WILSON, born in 1650; married first, PAUL BATT son of CHRISTOPHER BATT and his wife ANNE BAYNTON. She married secondly, 5 May 1680, Josiah Torrey.
NOTE: John Wilson is also an ancestor of William Howard Taft, 27th president of the USA,
The arms of the Wilsons are: Party silver and azure three lion's gams barwise
in pale erased counterchanged. The crest is A lion's head erased silver gutty
gules
NOTE: This material was taken from The New England Historical and
Genealogical Register, V. 38 (1884) pg. 301-7; V. 42 (1888) pg. 174-6; V.
54 (1907) pg. 36-41 & 127-129. These articles give extracts of wills, cites
many other primary sources of data, etc.
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