Person:Ellen Burgoyne (1)

Parentage of Ellen Burgoyne

"The parentage of Ellen Burgoyne is unknown. There were in the sixteenth century and before, a number of Burgoynes living in Cambridgeshire and nearby Bedfordshire. According to the Visitation of Cambridgeshire and some supporting evidence, the earliest known Burgoyne was Bartholomew of Boxworth, who was living 8 Edward III (1334). He was followed by his son Bartholomew who married Anne, daughter and heir of John Freville of Caxton. This second Bartholomew also lived in Boxworth. He had a son John, who married a daughter of Roger Harleston of Essex, and who was Escheater of Cambridgeshire in 1398/9, 1401, 14, and 16. His son John married a daughter of Thomas Payton and they lived in Dry Drayton. He had several children, including a son Thomas of Impington whose first wife was Isabell and second wife Alice Tay. He had a son Thomas, who married Alice Booth and lived in Long Stanton, Cambridgeshire.

If Ellen descended from Thomas Payton, then she had royal ancestors through that family. The Freville family also had royal ancestry and it seems certain that she at least descended from them."^[3]

1. ↑ Leete, Joseph, and John Corbet Anderson. The Family of Leete. (London: Blades, East & Blades, printers, 1906).

   Letters of administration granted to her son on 2 May 1564.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Threlfall, John B. Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & their Origins. (Madison, Wisconsin: J.B. Threlfall, 1990)
   267.

   On 10 October 1539, Ellen was described as a "gentlewoman" when she was named as godmother in the baptismal record of Alice Sutton at Toft. Administration on the estate of Helen Leete, widow, of Eversden, was granted to her son Thomas Leete on 2 May 1564.

3. ↑ Threlfall, John B. Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & their Origins. (Madison, Wisconsin: J.B. Threlfall, 1990)
   276.