Clopton Family Genealogical Society
CLOPTON LINKS IN CYBERSPACE
Revised February 6, 2001
Before you plan your Dead Clopton Tour,
you must visit the Suffolk County Council site, http://www.suffolkcc.gov.uk/ . This is your one stop shopping
place supplying you with all the information you will need to organize a visit
to our ancestral homeland.
Hint! Plan to stay at Long
Melford, County Suffolk, http://www.longmelford.co.uk/frontpage.html
, where you will find more dead Cloptons than any other place in England. The lovely medieval village of Long
Melford boasts several wonderful old hotels and many enchanting bed and
breakfasts and a town filled with people who bend over backwards to make the
visitor’s stay special. Another
helpful stop is found at http://www.SmoothHound.co.uk/hotels/theredh.html. This will take you to a listing of the
best of Great Britain’s Bed and Breakfast and Hotel lodging
beginning with The Red House in Cavendish, about four miles west of Long
Melford.
The Clopton family ancestral church, Holy
Trinity Church, Long Melford, County Suffolk, http://www.stedmundsbury.anglican.org/longmelford/index.html
, has a very active membership and no self-respecting Clopton descendant should
miss the opportunity to stop by for a tour of this historical and beautiful
church.
The official site
of Kentwell Hall, the magnificent ancestral home of the Clopton family in
Long Melford, County Suffolk, England, is found at http://www.kentwell.co.uk/map.htm. This site features a lovely selection
of photographs of Kentwell Estates.
A second site featuring a number of photographs of the estate is found
at http://www.brentwoodit.demon.co.uk/kentwell.htm
.
Those who are researching Suffolk County roots
will find membership in the Suffolk Family History Society, http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/sfhs/sfhs.htm invaluable. The Society has thoughtfully set up
membership agents in many countries so that dues may be paid in the currency of
the applicant and/or member.
Roger Alan Bartlett, Esq., a descendant of Walter Clopton, The Elder,
of “Callowell,” and his wife, Mary Jarratt by Benjamin Michaux Clopton,
C.S.A., of Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, and Navarro County, Texas
and his wife, Mary Elizabeth McLin, is the webmaster of The Jesse
Bartlett and Frances Callaway Bartlett web site at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bartlett/bartlett-jesse-homepage.htm
The Clopton Family Association, http://www.seanet.com/~clopton/ is an organization dedicated to the
descendants of Virginia’s William Clopton and his wife, Ann Booth. The club sponsors regional reunions and
bi-yearly national reunions. Members receive a newsletter at least
three times a year featuring reunion information and announcements of Clopton
births, marriages and deaths.
Fund raising activities are devoted to the restoration and preservation
of churches with historical connections to the Clopton family.
Carole Elizabeth Scott,
Ph.D.,
a descendant of William Clopton, of St. Paul’s Parish, and his wife, Joyce
Wilkinson, of Black Creek, by Alford Clopton, M.D., of New Kent County,
Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia, and Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, and his
wife, Sarah Kendrick, of Putnam County. In addition to
her Clopton lines, she is researching the ancestors and descendants of John
McGough, of White Plains, Georgia, and his wife, Elizabeth Carson. Dr. Scott is the webmaster of The
McGough Family Page at http://www.westga.edu/~scott/gene/mcgough.html;
as well as The Laissez Fair Page, http://www.westga.edu/~csott;
Southron Ring, http://members.tripod.com/~car0lesc0tt;
and, a counterfactual history, entitled Clopton’s Short History of the
Confederate States of America, 1861-1925, at http://www.members.tripod.com/~car0lesc0tt/clopton.html
Upon the death of Judge David C. Clopton, in 1892, a great flurry of commentary blanketed newspapers throughout the South. In addition to the expected recitation of his career, his ancestry from a “conspicuous Virginia Family,” was duly noted, and, oddly, the shape of his head, complexion and eyes received praise. Of his wives, it was his third who is best remembered, the unflappable Virginia Caroline Tunstall, widow of Clement Claiborne Clay, who was himself, a descendant of the ancient Cloptons. Virginia wrote a book entitled A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1825-1915. The complete text plus photographs are found at http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/clay/clay.html Boasting 255 pages it takes a couple of minutes to open so be patient!
Descendants of Walter Clopton, The Elder, of
“Callowell,” and his wife, Mary Jarratt by Susannah Clopton of Goochland
County, Virginia and her husband, Philemon Bradford, Sr., of Granville
County, North Carolina won’t want to miss The Bradfords of Charles City
County, Virginia and Some of Their Descendants 1653-1993, by David Thomas
Bradford, at http://www.members.home.net/kylawyer/
Cemetery Records Online, http://interment.net/ has a listing of Cloptons buried
in cemeteries. They also provide
links to obituaries on line.
Descendants of Sarah Elizabeth (Reid)
Saffold, daughter of Marianne
Clopton and her husband, Andrew Reid, featured in the essay Tempest
In The Briar Patch, will find a visit to the Saffold Family Society
at http://home.earthlinnk.net/~msaffold/sfshmpg.htm
well worth the time.
Michael D. Gorman created and maintains a website, “Civil
War Richmond,” at http://www.mdgorman.com/
which includes information
relating to the Clopton Hospital which was founded by the wife of
The Honorable John Bacon Clopton’s wife, Maria
Gaitskell Foster, the subject of the essay, “In Praise of Mint
Juleps.” The index to this
material is found at http://www.mdgorman.com/clopton_hospital.htm
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to recommend for inclusion?
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