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 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