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My 6x great grandparents William Allyson and Mary Colton married at Southoe in 1685 and then upped sticks at some point in the next 20 years to Derbyshire and I'm having trouble tracking down their 6 children, some of whom may have been born in Huntingdonshire. From what i can see the Colton name pretty much disappears from Hunts by the start of the 18th century, and I believe that she was the only living child of her branch, given that in her husband's will there are property holdings in Southoe in trust for their eldest son which would only come to him after her death unless he surrendered them to his father's estate. If anyone has anything in strays or coincidentally in other docs I'd be most grateful for the help, they're a bit of a loose end and my luck in tracking them seems to have dried up

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Derbyshire / Colton and Allyson/Allison, Scarcliffe/Palterton
« on: Monday 20 September 21 07:49 BST (UK)  »
I'm tying up loose ends in prep for putting the story so far together for my mum (we started working on my main tree in 1987, she stopped after a couple of years, I carried on) and found my 5x great grandmother Rebecca Jepson nee Allyson in the Ault Hucknall contingent, then her father William Allyson of Palterton, I dug up his will and discovered her eldest brother had a really weird name for someone born c.1690 - Colton , then I read further and there were references to holdings in Southoe, Huntingdonshire. After chasing that snippet all over I found a marriage bond for William Allyson of Doddington and Mary Colton of Southoe , so they both came from the Ely area - then the Allyson name becomes scarce and the Colton name disappears in Huntingdon, but reappears in Derbyshire and Notts, so I'm positing a move by Mary and other relatives. Problem is I can't track down where Colton was born (I know he was married at Scarcliffe 30 Nov 1711 to Mary Cadwell) nor any of the siblings, but they should be somewhere as the kids of a fairly well off farmer and landowner .  I'd love to know if anyone has come across any references in their travels to either family in the Scarcliffe and Palterton area from 1690 or has any ideas of where to look other than Huntingdon archives

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