Person talk:George Sutton (1)

Baptism [5 October 2011]

The source given for

Christening 13 Jan 1613 Tenterden, Kent, England St Mildred's Church

is listed as Sutton Sutton and More Suttons, Doris Ellen (Witter) Bland, 1992, Bland Books, r5, Box 412, Fairfield, Ill 62837, p.8.

The Tenterden parish registers appear to be well-known. For example, NEHGR, p. 65:331, gives the baptisms of Nathaniel Tilden's children, which all occurred in Tenterden. Yet no baptism is given there for George, also mentioned in the article. Sarah Tilden, who married George, is baptized 13 June 1613.

I believe the apparently self-published source above has misread some source (or been misread), such as, say, the Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine, which says George Sutton "m. at Scituate, Mass., 13 March 1636/7, Sarah Tilden, bpt. Tenterden, Kent, England, 13 June 1613" and assumed the baptism applied to George instead of Sarah (the bookeepping error in reporting June as January appears to be a data input error as elsewhere on the page this date was given as June.) I have no found another source that provides this same date for George.

I am removing the above data and using Abt. 1610 based on the estimate found in Virkus. George's age was probably not greatly different from, though probably not identical to, Sarah's, and this seems like a reasonable approximation. If, despite appearances, the above date were to be valid, given the large number of errors in reporting English origins in so many family genealogies, it might be useful to provide the transcription of the parish register. --Jrich 10:00, 5 October 2011 (EDT)

Death location [12 October 2011]

From Source:New England Historical and Genealogical Register, p. 91:67: "George Sutton, a settler in that part of present North Carolina which, after bearing various other names, is now Perquimans County, died there 12 Apr 1699." His wife died in what is now Perquimans County. --Jrich 20:44, 12 October 2011 (EDT)

Incidentally, the area that is Stanly County (the unsourced location that was removed) wasn't settled until the mid 1700's. At the time of George and Sarah's death, people lived largely on the coast. --Jrich 22:18, 12 October 2011 (EDT)