
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 relatedto 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, insporation 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 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 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, death in the Tower
- 1700/1850 – our 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 used for 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 – and the inspiration for the usage Robert Soulsby
Enjoy!
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