Person:Henry Alderton (1)

Henry Alderton, Esq.

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m. 1618

m. 6 May 1646

Facts and Events

Name^[1]^[2]^[3]	Henry Alderton, Esq.
Gender	Male
Marriage License	17 Oct 1618	Lewes, Sussex, Englandto Susan Scrase
Marriage	1618	West Blatchington, Sussex, Englandto Susan Scrase
Marriage	6 May 1646	Petworth, Sussex, Englandto Hannah (add)
Probate^[2]	14 Nov 1660
Will^[2]	7 Jan 1757
Residence^[1]		Tillington, Sussex, England

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Henry Alderton, in England. Sussex. Genealogies of Families Living In Sussex.

Citing Sussex Genealogies (1931-), Comber, John, (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1931-), FHL book 942.25 D2s; FHL microfilm 924,767., vol. 3 p. 241.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Will of Henry Alderton of Sompting, Sussex, in Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court. Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Probate Records, 1384-1858
PROB 11/300/544.

His will mentions:
-his son William Alderton
-his son Thomas Alderton
-his daughter Susan Brickes wife of Samuel Brickes of London gent
-his daughter Martha Roberts
-his son Richard Alderton
-his grandchild Martha Roberts
-his now wife Hannah
-the poor of Rottingdean and Tillington and Petworth
↑ Dallaway, James. A history of the western division of the county of Sussex: including the rapes of Chicheser, Arundel, and Bramber, with the city of diocese of Chichester. (London: T. Bensley, 1815-32)
2:2:99.
Sompting, in Page, William; Susan M Keeling; Louis Francis Salzman; and C. P. Lewis. The Victoria history of the county of Sussex. (London: A. Constable, 1905-)
6:1:53-64.

In 1647 Pye sold Sompting Abbotts to Henry Alderton. Henry died in 1660 leaving the manor and c. 800 a. in Sompting to his son William, who was succeeded by his son, also William. The latter died in 1721, leaving the manor to his sister Martha who c. 1730 married Young Willes. Willes sold the estate in 1748 to John Crofts (d. 1776), a London attorney.