'----- HORTON born undoubtedly at Mowsley; died at Mowsley, Leicestershire; married ----- (-) and had at least one son. This son of William Horton is identified in the note of Rev. Green, rector of Mowsley, only as a Horton heir who inherited and occupied throughout his lifetime the messuage and le Prest Croft on the north side of St. Nicholas Parish Church yard [citing Rev. J.H Green, rector of Mowsley, 1876-1915, MS historical notes found among his papers by a later rector of Mowsley, Rev. H.D. Green, who gave them to L.G.H. Horton-Smith sometime prior to 1946].'
