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Dame Eleanor Button Memorial

To the memory of
Dame Eleanor the relict of
Sir Robert Button
of Tockenham Court, Bart, who dyed the 15th of February 1706, Aged 88.
And gave to the Poor of the Parish of Lineham for ever 200 pounds.
And of Mr Charles Compton, Gent, Brother of ye Lady Button who dyed ye 12th of Jan 1707, Aged 69.
And gave to the poor of the Parish of Lineham for ever 174 pounds.
Her memory of late Wm Pleydell de Wootton Bassett

St James Church South Wraxall

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The Button Family Tree

The Button Family Lineage
Extract from A Genealogical and Heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies by John Burke 1838:

WILLIAM BUTTON of Alton, (son of another William Button of Alton, and a lineal decendant of Sir Walter de Button, Knt. living 12th HENRY III.) married Mary, daughter of Sir William Kelway, Knt of Rockborne, in Wiltshire, and had issue.

AMBROSE (Sir), Knt d.s.p.
WILLIAM, of Alton,
John of Buckland, in Lymington, who married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Bernard Drake of Ash, in Devonshire, and was father of:

JOHN BUTTON, esq., of Buckland, who died 7th March 1665 leaving by Eleanor, his wife, daughter of of Thomas South esq., of South Badealey, Hants. an only son.

JOHN BUTTON, esq., of Buckland who married Mary, daughter of William Jesson, esq., of Coventry, and dying 1679, was buried at Lymington, leaving issue.

ELIZABETH, born 1651, married to John Burrard, esq., M.P. for Lymington and had issue.
MARY or SUSAN, born 1653, married to Sir Richard Hopkyne, Knt. of Coventry, ancester of the present William Richard Hopkyne-Northey esq., Lady Hopkyne died 1711.
ANNE, born 1656, married to Paul Burrard, esq., of Walhampton, M.P. for Lymington: hence descend the Burrards baronets.
ELEANOR, born 1656, married to Thomas Dore and had issue.

Cicely, married to John Meux, esq., of Kingston, Isle of Wight.
Dorothy, married to John Drake, esq., of Ashe, county Devon.

The second son;
WILLIAM BUTTON, of Alton, married Jane, daughter of John Lamb, of Wilitshire, and had three sons and two daughters, viz;

WILLIAM, his heir.
MARTYN, living unmarried 1649.
John, d.s.p.
JANE, married to Walter Coningsby, D.D.
MARTHA, married to Thomas Coningsby, esq., of North Mims Hertfordshire.

The eldest son,
1. SIR WILLIAM BUTTON, of Alton, in Wiltshire, was created a baronet in 1621.. He married Ruth, daughter of Walter Dunche, esq., of Avebury Wiltshire and had issue.

WILLIAM, married Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Rolle, Knt. of Steventon in Devonshire.
THOMAS, d unmarried.
ROBERT of whom presently.
John, living 1649
MARY, married to Clement Walker, esq., of Charter House Leadon in Somersetshire, usher of the Exchequer, and their representative is the George-Heneage Walker Heneage, esq., of Compton Bassett, in Wiltshire.
JANE, married to Dr. Richard Stweart, dean of the king's chapel.
RUTH, married to Thomas Lambert, esq., son of Sir Thomas Lambert.

The Third son,
2. SIR ROBERT BUTTON, of Alton, married Eleanor, daughter of William Compton, esq., of Hartbury, in Gloucestershire, and dying about 1679 was s. by his brother,

3. SIR JOHN BUTTON, of Alton, who married twice, but d.s.p. in 1712, when the title expired.