See the Denton family history main index, or dip in with these hints below:
- back to the year 935, where we were reevers living along the Picts Wall
- 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 start 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 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, death in the Tower
- 1700/1850 – our agricultural labourer phase
- 1730s – George Chamberlayne Denton married Constance te daughter 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 used in Denton TX
- 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
Enjoy!
