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Dame Eleanor Button
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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
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St James Church South
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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. |