William Cotton

1411 - 1455  (~ 45 years)

• Name	William Cotton  [1]
  Birth	Between 1410 and 1411	of Landwade, Cambridgeshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1411	of Landwade, Cambridgeshire, England   [3, 4]
  Alternate death	1453  [5]
  Death	22 May 1455	St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England   [3, 6]
  Burial	Landwade, Cambridgeshire, England   [3, 6]
  Person ID	I35301	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JDM
  Last Modified	25 May 2021

  
  

  Father	Walter Cotton,   b. Abt 1375   d. 13 May 1445, Landwade, Cambridgeshire, England (Age ~ 70 years)
  Mother	Joan Rede   d. Bef 1445
  Marriage	Aft 1397  [3, 7]
  Family ID	F20742	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Abbott   d. 21 Nov 1473
  Children	+ 1. Catherine Cotton   2. Thomas Cotton,   b. 1438   d. 30 Jul 1499 (Age 61 years)
  Family ID	F20736	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Porter of the Great Wardrobe for Henry VI; also esquire to the King; Usher of the Chamber; also attorney general and receiver-general for the Duchy of Lancaster. Burgess (MP) for Cambridge in 1447 and 1453. He was killed at the battle of St. Albans, the first battle of the Wars of the Roses. Anderson and Threlfall (citation details below) direct the reader to the Cambridgeshire Antiquarian Society Proceedings 38:1-77 for "a lengthy and detailed investigation of this family, and in particular the reasons for discarding the visitation pedigree prior to Walter Cotton" (father of this William Cotton).

  
  

• Sources

  [S5814] John B. Threlfall, "Thomas Bradbury's Abbot Ancestry." The American Genealogist 56:13, 1980. [S5861] The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury (1611-1695) and His Wife Mary (Perkins) Bradbury (1615-1700) of Salisbury, Massachusetts by John Brooks Threlfall. 2nd edition. Madison, Wisconsin, 1995. [S5815] John B. Threlfall, "Thomas Bradbury's Cotton Ancestry." The American Genealogist 57:35, 1981. [S5811] Robert Charles Anderson and John B. Threlfall, "Ancestor Table for Thomas Bradbury of Agementicus and Salisbury (1611-1665)." The American Genealogist 55:1, 1979., place only. [S5811] Robert Charles Anderson and John B. Threlfall, "Ancestor Table for Thomas Bradbury of Agementicus and Salisbury (1611-1665)." The American Genealogist 55:1, 1979. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S5861] The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury (1611-1695) and His Wife Mary (Perkins) Bradbury (1615-1700) of Salisbury, Massachusetts by John Brooks Threlfall. 2nd edition. Madison, Wisconsin, 1995., "by 1409".