Denton family bible

Denton Family Bible: Go to Denton family history main index –

OR, Family tree charts for a chronological overview

OR, Denton stepping stones a detailed look at the five generations ahead of me

Or dip in, with these hints below, to get you to the more interesting bits:

4,004 BCE – see how we can trace the family all the way back to the Garden of Eden – fiction?;
2,948 BCE – of course the family had to go back to Noah, he his family and the two-by-twos;
2,052 BCE – we were related to Isaac and his father Abraham, both religious patriarchs;
1870 BCE – we were related to Judah ben Jacob, he, Zerah and Dardanus helped to found Troy;
1320 BCE – our GGU74 was Priam, the King of Troy during the Trojan Wars with Athens;
210 BCE – our GGF65 washed up on the shores of Scandinavia, his Trojan roots founded the Norse;
our GGF 49 was Odin or Woden, not the God, but the real warrior king;
920, our GGU26 Waltheof of Bernicia, had a son Uhtred the Bold, inspiration for the Bernard Cornwell TV series ‘The Last Kingdom’;

935, where we were reevers living along the Picts Wall and re-tasking Roman forts;
1000 – learn of Beuth, Beuth-barn (Macbeth?) and Sigreda;
1300 – see coats of arms for Sir Richard de Denton and Sir John de Denton;
1340 – Sir Richard de Denton helped to spark the Hundred Years’ War;
1350s – three Thomas’s from our dark ages;
1400/1550 – see our early properties – Cardew, Denton Hall, Warnell, Sebergham;
1600 – discover John Denton the Historian who provided the family tree, back to 935;
1550-1700 – the Landed Dentons – Fyfield, Baddesley Clinton, Ambrosden, Hillesden…;
1630s – learn how Rev Richard Denton took his family and flock across to the Americas;
1630s – Richard’s wife Lady Helen Windebank was a direct descendant of Hotspur, Sir Henry Percy;
1630s – Helen’s sister Mildred was the great-grandmother of George Washington;
1640s – Dr William Denton FRCP – physician to Charles I and Charles II;
1645 – Sir Alexander Denton‘s defeat by Oliver Cromwell – the loss of Hillesden, his subsequent death in the Tower;
1700/1850 – our family’s agricultural labourer phase;
1730s – George Chamberlayne Denton married Constance the daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, made infamous by Lord Nelson’s last words;
early 19th c – why was John Bunyan Denton disinterred twice and his name then used for the naming of Denton Texas, the only town that boasts three Miss Americas;
19th c – Rebecca’s penchant for umbrelllas?
19th c – a remote relative who transported Cleopatra’s needle;
late 19th c- Joseph the tailor;
20th c – family losses due to the world wars;
20th c – the three Robert Soulsby Dentons – grandfather, father and son – and the inspiration for the usage Robert Soulsby.