'FentonXX'Index links to: Lead / Letter DRAFT
Families covered: Fenton of Crake, Fenton of Grinton, Fenton of Hunslet, Fenton of Underbank, Fenton of Wath, Fenton of Woodhouse Hill This family is still being researched. It has NOT yet been launched formally into the Database but is shown here as DRAFT in the hope that one or more visitors to the site will contribute information that will enable us to develop this Family List to an acceptable standard.
First displayed: 28.07.09Last updated: 28.07.09Back to 'Can You Help ?'
(1) There are towns/villages called Fenton in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire & Huntingdonshire/Cambridgeshire but, apart from the Nottinghamshire family covered by Fenton01, most of the Fenton families we have come across appear to have come from Yorkshire. BLG1862 (Fenton of Castelrigg) reports that "This family appears to have been very anciently settled in the neighbourhood of Leeds", mentioning a marriage of a Fenton in 1332. BLG18652 also suggests that "Of the same family it appears ... was Sir Geoffrey Fenton, secretary of state" (for Ireland) whom we show on Fenton01. Accordingly, we suspect that the Yorkshire families are cadets of the Nottinghamshire family - but this has not been proved. Unfortunately, we have yet to come across a source which has investigated (successfully) how these families fit together.
(2) The top section comes from Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5, Fenton of Crake).
other issue - Francis (dsp), Anthony (dsp), Christopher
2.+
other issue - Anthony (dsp), Thomas (priest)
There were several Fenton families connected with Hunslet which is near Leeds. The following comes from BLG1952 (De Wend-Fenton of Underbank) & BLG1862 (Fenton of Underbank).
William Fenton of Hunslet
1.
William Fenton of Underbank, Yorkshire (b 1685, d 15-23.08.1743)
Samuel Greame Fenton of Castelrigg (b 30.05.1795) had issue
m1. (03.01.1820) Eliza Catherine Metcalfe (dau of Rev. William Metcalfe of Brimpsfield)
m2. (sp?) Susan Agnes Chorley (dau of Thomas Chorley of Leeds)
m3. (sp?) Anne Maria Bartleet (dau of William William Bartleet of Redditch)
(2)
Anne Fenton
m. Michael Thomas Sadler (MP for Newark)
(3)+
other issue - Geoe (d unm), Harriet
b.
William Fenton (4th son) had issue
m. _ Pearson
c.+
other issue - Thomas (b c1757, d 1794), James of Leeds, Ibbotson (b c1767, d 1811), 3 daughters
ii.
James Fenton (d 1804)
m. Dorothy Gr*** (Greame?)
a.
James Fenton of Hampstead
iii.+
other issue
C.
Tabitha Fenton
m. John Hare
D.
Mary Fenton
m. Josia O**** (Oates?)
E.
Anne Fenton
m. Rev. William Pendlebury
F.
Mary Fenton
m. Josiah Ryder
G.
Rachael Fenton
m. D. Leach of Riddlestden Hall
H.+
other issue - Naomi (b c1693, d 1756), Hannah, Lydia (d 1756)
2.+
5 daughters
BLG1863 (Part II, in Appendix, 'Family of Fenton') starts by saying that the following John was "of a common ancestry with the families of Underbank and Castelrigg" and claims, as its arms, the same as those of Fenton of Castelrigg.
John Fenton of Woodhouse Hill
1.
James Fenton of Hunslet
A.
James Fenton of Glass House in Hunslet and of Carr House near Rotherham (b 29.06.1719) had issue - see note just below
m. Rachel
BLG1863 (Part II, in Appendix, 'Family of Fenton') goes on to show James & Rachel as parents of James of Loversall (m. Thomasine Ibetson), Jane (m. Richard Lee), Sarah and the others whose parentage is shown differently by BLG1886 (Fenton) which starts with the following James. We give precedence to BLG1886 over BLG1863 partly on the presumption that the later edition had benefited from additonal research but also because certain details shown by BLG1886 are supported over the equivalents shown in BLG1863 as shown below.
James Fenton of Rothwell, Yorkshire (b 1692, d 03.1759)
m. Rachel (b 1691-2, d 23.02.1773)
1.
William Fenton (b 1719, d 11.10.1774, 2nd son) buried in Hunslet
William Carr Fenton of Grinton (b c1784, d 1856, rector of Cowthorpe) had issue
m. (1823) Caroline Mary Mydleton (d 1850, dau of Rev. Robert Mydleton of Gwaynynog)
ii.
Elizabeth Fenton
m. (1820) Rev. Edward Mainwaring (brother of last Bart)
B.
Sarah Fenton
m1. John Cutforthay of Aughton Hall
m2. (04.02.1802) William Hoyle of Netherthorpe
C.
Jane Fenton (b c1746, d 1831)
m. Richard Lee of Leeds (b c1746, d 1831)
D.
Rachel Fenton named by BLG1886 but not by BLG1863
m. Thomas Jacques of Leeds named by BLG1886 but not by BLG1863
E.
Hellen Fenton
BLG1863 shows the daughter who married as follows as Rachel. We follow BLG1886 because the Kaye records (which does not giver her first name) identifies her father as William and not James whilst the Mainwaring records identify her as Eleanor (dau of William) which is 'close enough' to Hellen.
