Hungerford Great Ponton Lincolnshire

[Coningesby]

I am trying to find any further information about Henry Hungerford-Parson of Great Ponton and his family.

Henry Hungerford had lived in 'the close' at the Cathedral of Salisbury. He had some of his children baptized there in the early 1600's.

He later became a priest. In 1624, a relative [Sir Edward Hungerford of Corsham, Wiltshire] granted a parish living for him, at Great Ponton in Lincolnshire.

I was fascinated to find when I viewed the  parish register from Great Ponton, that Henry had entered the death of his wife Jane 22nd November 1638.

However it was the additional information that he had written which was of interest.
             'Jane the wife of Henry Hungerford parson and daughter of Henry Cotton once
Bishop of Sarum' (Salisbury)

Does anyone know any more? Or, if any of his children moved to Lincolnshire with their father?

[AlanBoyd]

Not much help, but Henry Cotton has a brief Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cotton_(bishop)?wprov=sfti1

[maddys52]

Apparently Henry COTTON was educated at "The Grammar School" founded in 1509 by Robert BECKINGHAM, grocer of London. Also educated there was William COTTON, Bishop of Exeter 1621 - a son?
"London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood: To Thirty Miles Extent, from an Actual Perambulation": by David Hughson, published 1808.

[AlanBoyd]

William Cotton, Bishop of Exeter, also has a Wikipedia page which reveals that he was the son of John Cotton, a London merchant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cotton_(bishop)?wprov=sfti1

Henry Cotton was the sone of Sir Richard Cotton.

[Coningesby]

Thanks Alan & Maddys52,

Henry Cotton was the son of Sir John Cotton of Warblington Hampshire (I have Henry's Will)

Most of the family were Catholics, but Henry Cotton was a Protestant

As with most Family History searches (In addition to my Lincolnshire search) I have been looking for the identity of Bishop Cotton's first wife, She was called Patience......but no Nee name(?)

On a holiday 'Down South' (I'm from Yorkshire) I looked for a monument in Salisbury Cathedral for the Bishop, hoping it mentioned his first wife.
There I discovered that James Wyatt the, architect1746-1813 'Tidied up' the inside of the Cathedral, throwing out many of the old memorials! Ummmm!