Person:George Cotton (7)
Sir George Cotton
b.Abt 1505
d.25 Mar 1545 Comber Mere, Cheshire, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1500
  1. Sir George CottonAbt 1505 - 1545
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Sir George CottonAbt 1505 - 1545
  • W.  Mary Onley (add)
m. Bef 11 Nov 1537
  1. Richard CottonAbt 1539 - 1602
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Facts and Events
Name Sir George Cotton
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1505
Marriage Bef 11 Nov 1537 to Mary Onley (add)
Death[1] 25 Mar 1545 Comber Mere, Cheshire, England

Knight of Combermere, Cheshire Sheriff of Denbighshire, Esquire of the Body of Henry VIII. King Henry VIII granted him and his wife Combermere Abbey and the manor of Wilkesley, Cheshire in 1542, and the manor of Pulton, Cheshire in 1543.

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Richardson, Douglas, and Kimball G. Everingham. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005)
    Abell 1.

    Second son of John Cotton and Cecily Mainwaring, born about 1505.

  2.   Robert Abell, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

    "His maternal [great-]grandfather, “Rt. Hon. Sir George Cotton,” was “Vice-Chamberlain of the Household to the Prince of Wales, (later King Edward VI) . . . a Privy Counsellor . . . [and] Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII.” Henry knighted him before or in 1542." (citing Mosley, Charles, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, Vol. 1, p. 871; and Boyer, Carl. Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 71)

  3.   Rt. Hon. Sir George Cotton, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
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