Clopton Family Genealogical Society
&
Clopton Family Archives
Celebrating Ten
Centuries of Clopton History
The Clopton Family Genealogical Society is dedicated to the purpose of
compiling, documenting, preserving and sharing accurate genealogical and
historical information regarding the Clopton family. The Society is not about newsletters, dues, reunions, or chat
rooms; we shall leave those noble endeavors to others.
The Clopton Chronicles, The
Ancestors and Descendants of Sir Thomas Clopton, Knt. & Dame Katherine
Mylde, a project of the Society,
represents the first major update of the Clopton family history since Lucy Lane
Erwin’s 1939 genealogy, The Ancestry of William Clopton of York County,
Virginia. The Clopton
Chronicles is a collection of lengthy essays and
genealogies published at this site after they are released to our members. Each essay is well researched and
extensively documented.
If you would like to
join us at absolutely no cost, just contact [email protected]. You will be placed on our mailing list
and receive notice of new stories and updates to previously published material. By joining the Society you will also be
eligible to receive photographs, shields of arms, and other graphics to
illustrate your own personal family heritage book.
The essays are filled with entertaining stories
about their kith, kin, and kissin’ cousins through the centuries. The essays and genealogies may be
downloaded from this site at no charge and freely copied and distributed for
non-commercial use by individuals and organizations. We ask only three things of you: respect our copyright, share the essays with those who don’t
have access to a computer, and submit your stories to be included in this
important project.
Make sure you stop by The Critic’s
Corner and read what people are saying – and asking - about The
Clopton Chronicles, and do check out Mysterious Cloptons and Clopton Links In Cyberspace while you are
in the neighborhood. Whether you
plan to visit England or just want to know a little more about our ancestors,
visit A
Self Guided Tour of Dead Cloptons. And don’t miss our newest addition, the Clopton Family
Album.
The
Clopton
Chronicles
The
Ancestors and Descendants of
Sir
Thomas Clopton, Knight &
Dame
Katherine Mylde
A
Project of the Clopton Family Genealogical Society
Katherine Mylde married first, Sir Thomas. Following Sir Thomas’ death, Dame Katherine
married Sir William deTendring, Knt., of Tendering Hall, Stokes-by-Nayland,
County Suffolk. It is believed
those claiming Clopton ancestry through William Clopton, Gentleman, of
Eastwood, County Essex, and York (now New Kent) County, Virginia and his wife,
Ann (Booth) Dennett are descendants of both these marriages.
Thomas Clopton + Katherine Mylde
William Clopton + Margery
Francis
John Clopton + Alice Darcy
William Clopton + Thomasine
Knyvet
Richard Clopton + Margaret
Playters
William Clopton + Margery
Waldegrave
Walter Clopton + Margarete
Maidstone
William Clopton + Elizabeth
Sutcliffe
William Clopton + Ann Booth
Katherine Mylde + William
deTendring
Alice deTendring + John
Howard
Henry Howard + Mary Hussey
Elizabeth Howard + Henry
Wentworth
Margaret Wentworth + William
Waldegrave
George Waldegrave + Anne
Drury
Edward Waldegrave + Joan
Acworth
Margery Waldegrave + William
Clopton
Walter Clopton + Margarete
Maidstone
William Clopton + Elizabeth
Sutcliffe
William Clopton + Ann Booth
Several other Clopton lines of descent from the
ancient Cloptons, which do not go through William Clopton, Gentleman, of Eastwood, County
Essex, and York (now New Kent) County, Virginia and his wife, Ann (Booth)
Dennett, are under study including:
Walter Clopton + Alice
FitzHugh
William Clopton + Amitia or
Ivetta Grey
Johane Clopton + Roger
Beauchamp
John Beauchamp + Margaret
Holland
Margaret Beauchamp + Oliver
St. John
John St. John + Alice
Bradshaw
John St. John + Sybil Jenkyn
John St. John + Anne Neville
Cressit St. John + John
Boetler or Butler
John Boetler or Butler +
Jane Elliott
Elizabeth Boetler +William
Claiborne, Sr. Secretary for Life of Virginia
Thomas Clopton + Katherine Mylde
William Clopton + Margery
Francis
John Clopton + Alice Darcy
William Clopton + Joan Marrow
Elizabeth Clopton + Geoffrey
Gates
Dorothy Gates + Thomas
Josselyn
Henry Josselyn + Anne Torrell
Thomas Josselyn + Theodora
Cooke
Henry Josselyn, Deputy
Governor of Maine
Alice Clopton + John
Harleston
John Harleston + Margaret Berdewell
Margaret Harleston + Thomas
Darcy
Roger Darcy + Elizabeth
Wentworth
Thomas Darcy + Elizabeth de
Vere
Mary Darcy + Richard
Southwell
Richard Southwell + Bridget
Copley
Katherine Southwell + Leonard
Mapes
Francis Mapes + Anna Loveday
Thomas Mapes + Sarah Purrier
Of interest to those who claim descent from the
Claiborne family of Virginia is another line from Katherine Mylde and her
second husband, William deTendring:
Katherine Mylde + William
deTendring
Alice deTendring + John
Howard
Robert Howard + Margaret
Mowbray
John Howard + Katherine
Moleyns
Thomas Howard + Elizabeth
Tylney
Elizabeth Howard + Thomas
Boleyn
Mary Boleyn + William Carey
Mary Carey + Francis Knolleys
Anne Knolleys + Thomas West
John West, of “West’s Point,”
Governor of Virginia + Anne Claiborne
John West, Jr. + Ursula
Croshaw
Anne West + Henry Fox
Ann Fox + Thomas Claiborne,
Jr., of “Sweet Hall”
Volume I
Tales To Tell
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Chapter
I
Saints
and Sinners, Wise Men and Fools
The Birth of a Family
Where Mightier Do
Assault Than Do Defend
Chapter II
Second Genesis
A New Beginning
Sweet Be the Sleep of
Those Who Prefer Liberty to Slavery
May You Live a
Thousand Years My Friend!
Bringing In the
Sheaves
Work While Thou Hast
Life for Christ
Chapter III
A Right Smart Fight
The American Civil War
Beware the Subterfuge
of Charlatans
Ragged Rebbles and
the Kilkenny Cat
Fire, Fear and
Death: The Fall of Richmond
Chapter IV
Love, Life, and Renewal
Reconstruction
Of Possums and Land
Barons and Wonders of the Sea
An Honorable and
Contrite Heart
Chapter V
Party Lines and Other Dangers of Southern Living
The Twentieth Century
Three Little Cloptons
In Virginia
A Fruit Jar of
Whiskey & A Chicken in the Pot
Papa Whipped Me, So I
Left for Parts Unknown
Volume II
Genealogies
The Descendants of
Guillaume Peche,
The Descendants of William deTendring, Knt., of Tendering
Hall &
The Descendants of
Ann Clopton, of “Callowell,” &
Her Husband
Nicholas Mills II, of St. Martin’s Parish
The Descendants of
Robert Clopton, I &
His Wives
Sara Ann Scott and Mary Crump
The Descendants of
William Clopton of St. Paul’s Parish
Hanover
County, Virginia & His Wife Joyce Wilkinson of Black Creek
The Descendants of
Walter Clopton, The Elder, of “Callowell,”
New Kent
County, Virginia & His Wife Mary Jarratt
The Descendants of Richard Doggett
of
Boxford, County
Suffolk, The First Five Generations
The Descendants of Adam Winthrop,
I, of Lavenham &
His Wife Joane
Burton, The First Four Generations
The Descendants of Jesse Bartlett &
The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson Johnston, Esq. &
His Wives Mary Gilbert & Martha Bass,
The First Three Generations
The Descendants
of Elisha King, Sr. &
His Wives, Mary, Kesiah Sanders &
Margaret Hall,
The Descendants of Captain Samuel
Reid &
His Wife Agnes Kay,
The First Five Generations
The Descendants of Robert Ruffin, I,
of “Richneck” &
His Wife Elizabeth
Prime, The First Seven Generations
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
This Site Was Established September 3, 1999 by the Clopton Family Genealogical Society
Suellen Clopton Blanton,
Mistress of the Web