Person:Margaret Malthous (1)

This is not the Margaret Malthous of Royal Descent

"Margaret's son William stated that her father was "John Malthous of Bynfield in Com Bucks. (Berks.)," and William undoubtedly knew his grandfather's name. John Orlebar Payne (Collections for a History of the Family of Malthus [London, 1890], 47) claims that the Margaret baptized 15 February 1558/9 at Binfield, daughter of John Malthous, was the wife of William Montague. Payne's source was not a Malthous document, but rather the 1634 visitation pedigree of Mountague. Margaret Malthous born 1558/9 has a royal descent through her mother (see Register 141 [1987]:106-107). The Margaret Malthous who married William Montague, however, was married first in 1552, long before another Margaret, daughter of a John, was baptized in 1559. Malthous wills have been read in an effort to identify John, the father-in-law of William Montague, but the quest has been unsuccessful."^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} 2. William² Montague, in Hyde, Myrtle Stevens. The English Origin of Peter and Richard Montague. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1988)
   142:156-59.