"The following is the result of an investigation by J. G. Bartlett for this work."
"Dodington is one of the manors in the parish of Neen Savage, co. Salop, and in Domesday Book in 1085 is called Dodintone. As early as Edward I (1272),
the lords of this manor took their family name from it and became known as 'de Dodington.' About 1400 the prefix 'de' was dropped from the name which by 1500 had become clipped to Detton, in which form it later appears in the parish registers of Neen Savage, etc.
A 14 generation pedigree of this family as Dodington, appears in the Visitation of Shropshire in 1623. While there is little doubt that the various persons named in the first 10 generations existed, there is much doubt in my mind as to whether they have been correctly strung together in the pedigree.
We will therefore begin with the eleventh generation of the Visitation Pedigree, viz.
John Dodington or Detton, born probably about 1490-1495, was lord of the manor of Dodington in Neen Savage, temp. Henry VIII. (1509-1546). …"
