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Personal data Richard Saltonstall Knight, of London and South Ockendon, Essex 

• He was born about 1521 in Yorkshire, England.
• He died about March 17, 1601 in South Ockendon, Essex, England.
• He is buried in the parish church of St Nicholas at South Ockendon where there is an alabaster monument to him.
• A child of Gilbert Saltonstall and Agnes Saltonstall (LNU)
• This information was last updated on October 28, 2024.

Household of Richard Saltonstall Knight, of London and South Ockendon, Essex

He is married to Susanna Saltonstall (Poyntz).

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Hester Myddleton (Saltonstall)  ± 1554-± 1587 

Notes about Richard Saltonstall Knight, of London and South Ockendon, Essex

Sir Richard Saltonstall, Knight, of London and South Ockendon, Essex
Gender:
Male
Birth:
1521
Yorkshire, England
Death:
March 17, 1601 (79-80)
South Ockendon, Essex, England
Place of Burial:
the parish church of St Nicholas at South Ockendon where there is an alabaster monument to him.

Immediate Family:
Son of Gilbert Saltonstall, of Hipperholme and Agnes Saltonstall (unknown), of Hipperholme

Husband of Susanna Saltonstall (Poyntz)

Father of Eleanor Middleton (Saltonstall); Hester Myddleton (Saltonstall); Elizabeth Wyche (Saltonstall); Judith Saltonstall; Martha Saltonstall; Susan Saltonstall; Sir Samuel Saltonstall; Sir Peter Saltonstall; Gilbert Saltonstall; Philip Saltonstall; Mary Saltonstall and Anne Saltonstall

https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Richard-Saltonstall-Lord-Mayor-of-London/6000000009179351262

Sir Richard Saltonstall, Lord Mayor of London is your 14th great grandfather.
You¬â€  ·Üí Geneva Allene Welborn (Smith) (your mother) ·Üí Henry Loyd Smith Sr. (her father) ·Üí Edith Lucinda Smith (Lee) (his mother) ·Üí Malissa (Melissa Mariliza) Lee (Allen) (her mother) ·Üí Matilda Caroline Norwood (her mother) ·Üí Theophilus Norwood (her father) ·Üí James Richard Norwood (his father) ·Üí Elenor Norwood (Middleton) (his mother) ·Üí John Middleton, Sr. (her father) ·Üí Richard Middleton, III (his father) ·Üí Capt. Richard Middleton, II (his father) ·Üí Richard Charles Middleton, Sr. (his father) ·Üí Henry Middleton (his father) ·Üí Richard Middleton (his father) ·Üí Hester Myddleton (Saltonstall) (his mother) ·Üí Sir Richard Saltonstall, Lord Mayor of London (her father)

The name Saltonstall comes from a hamlet called Saltonstall in the parish of Halifax in Yorkshire, England. The family name goes back to Thomas de Saltonstall under Edward I in 1276.
Sir Richard, born in 1521, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1598. He was Lord Mayor of London 1597-8. He was sheriff of London in 1588.
He died in Essex in 1600. His funeral had a great ceremony, denoting his business, political and family connections.
Our ancestor is Elizabeth , daughter of Sir Richard, who married Richard Wyche of London.
biography
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Saltonstall_(mayor)_
SALTONSTALL, Sir RICHARD (1521?·Äì1601), lord mayor of London, second [sic: third] son of Gilbert Saltonstall of Halifax, was born about 1521. He came to London in early life, and became a member of the Skinners' Company, of which he was master in 1589, 1593, 1595, and 1599. He was elected alderman of Aldgate ward 26 Sept. 1587 (City Records, Rep. 21, f. 594), and removed 28 Feb. 1592 to Tower ward, which he represented till his death (ib. Rep. 22, f. 355* b). In 1586 he was one of the city parliamentary representatives, and became sheriff in 1588 and lord mayor in 1597, being knighted during his mayoralty, 30 April 1598. Saltonstall rose to a position of great affluence as a London merchant, and was engaged in numerous financial transactions with the government, both individually and on behalf of the Merchant Adventurers' Company, of which he was the governor (State Papers, Spanish, 1568·Äì79 p. 592, Dom. 1581·Äì90 p. 386). In his official capacity he was frequently abroad at Hamburg, Stade, Emden, and other places (ib. passim), and was a member of various commissions to settle commercial disputes or examine state offenders. He was collector of customs for the port of London, in which office he was assisted as deputy by his son Samuel (ib. Dom. 1598·Äì1601 pp. 138, 507, 1603·Äì10 p. 345).
Saltonstall ·Äòand his children·Äô were also among the adventurers of the East India Company in their first voyage, 22 Sept. 1599 (Stevens, Court Records of the East India Company, p. 3). He died on 17 March 1601, and was buried in the parish church of South Okendon, Essex, where he held the manor of Groves and presented to the living in 1590. He also held the manor of Ledsham in Yorkshire, and many other country estates. By his will, dated 1597, and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 19 May 1601 (Goodhall 32), he left one hundred pounds for provision of money and bread to the poor of the parish of Halifax, and bequests to the city hospitals. The terms of the will were, however, disputed by his sons (State Papers, Dom. 1603·Äì10, p. 345), and by Abigail Baker, alias Saltonstall, a natural daughter (P.C.C. Montague 51). An apocryphal print of Saltonstall was published by W. Richardson in 1794.
He married Susan, only daughter of Thomas Pointz of North Okendon, and sister of Sir Gabriel Pointz. His married life extended over fifty years. He had seven sons and nine daughters, one of whom, Hester, married Sir Thomas Myddelton (1550·Äì1631) [q. v.], lord mayor in 1613·Äì1614; three of his sons·Äîviz. Samuel, Peter, and Richard·Äîwere knighted. Through his son Sir Richard, Saltonstall was ancestor of the Norths, earls of Guilford.
[Watson's History of Halifax, pp. 237, 579; Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, ed. Whitaker, 1816, p. 236; Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 526; Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, iii. 362, 601; Morant's Essex, i. 101; Wadmore's History of the Skinners' Company, p. 58; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. xi. 513, 3rd ser. i. 350; Appleton's Cyclop. of Amer. Biogr. v. 379; authorities above cited.]
ancestry

From https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/uB...
Citing Bartlett, J. Gardner. Historical Genealogy of the Saltonstall Family in England and America. 1920:
The father of Sir Richard, the lord Mayor, was Gilbert Saltonstall (1493 - 1545) of Hipperholme, 3rd son of Richard Saltonstall (d 1524) of High Saltonstall and Shelf in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire.

To chart it:
Richard Saltonstall (d 1524) of High Saltonstall and Shelf in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire had three sons:
1. ?
2. John (1492 - 1559) of Hipperholme
Gilbert (1525 - 1598) of Rook's Hall
Samuel (1562 - 1613) of Roger Thorpe
Richard (1586 - 1661) the colonist
3.Gilbert (1493 - 1545) of Hipperholme
Richard (1521 - 1602) lord Mayor
EH July 2017
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GEDCOM Note
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Saltonstall-32
Sir Richard Saltonstall
Born about 1521 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England
Son of Gilbert Saltonstall and [mother unknown]
Brother of Samuel Saltonstall and Mary (Saltonstall) Savile
Husband of Susanna (Poyntz) Saltonstall ·Äî married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Father of Gilbert Saltonstall, Hester (Saltonstall) Myddelton, Anne (Saltonstall) Harby, Peter Saltonstall, Elizabeth (Saltonstall) Wyche and Mary (Saltonstall) Sunderland
Died 17 Mar 1601 at about age 80 in South Ockendon, Essex, England

Richard Saltonstall was born in Halifax, Yorkshire.[1]
Richard was the second son of Gilbert Saltonstall, a yeoman,[1] of Halifax, Yorkshire, who purchased Rookes Hall in Hipperholme in 1565.[2]
Parents:
Gilbert Saltonstall
Agnes Saltonstall

He was the brother of:
1Samuel, oldest brother;
2Mary;
Marriage and Children
Sir Richard married Susanna, the daughter of Thomas Poyntz, gent,[3] of North Ockenden, Essex.[1] They had many children:
1Gilbert, not mentioned in his father's funeral certificate;[4]
2Richard Saltonstall, esq, eldest son, married to Jane, the daughter of Ffrancis Bernard of co Northampton, gent, and they had children:[3]
1Richard;
2Bernard;
3John;
4Susanna;
3Eleanor, not mentioned in her father's funeral certificate;[4]
4Samuel, second son, unmarried in 1601?[3]
5Peter Saltonstall, gent, 3rd son, married to Anne, the daughter of Thomas Waller, co Buckingham, gent;[3]
6Edward, 4th son, unmarried in 1601;[3]
7Anne, oldest daughter, married to John Harby (Harvie[1]) of London, gent, and they had children:[3]
1Richard;
8Susanna, 2nd daughter, married to William Browne, gent, and they had children:[3]
1Thomas;
2Samuel;
3Sara;
9Hester, 3rd daughter, married to Thomas Midelton (Myddleton[1]) of London, gent, and they had children:
1Richard;
2Thomas;
10Elizabeth, 4th daughter, married to Richard Wiche (Wyche[1]) of London, gent, and they had children:[3]
1Richard;
2Thomas;
3George;
4Samuel;
5Peter;
6Jeames;
7Edward;
8Susanna;
9Elizabeth;
10Anne;
11Sara, 5th daughter, married to Thomas Wheler of London, gent;[3]
12Marie, 6th daughter, married to Richard Sunderland of Yorkshire, gent, and they had children:[3]
1Abraham;
2Robert;
3Samuel;
4Susannna;
5Marie;
13Judith, 7th daughter, married to Edward Riche of Hovenden, co Essex, esq, and they had children:[3]
1Edward;
2Richard;
14Martha, 8th daughter, unmarried at the time of her father's will;
15Abigail, 9th daughter, (who was illegitimate[1]), married to Henry Baker of Bowers-gyfford, co Essex, esq, and they had children:[3]
1Richard, dead at the time of his grandfather's funeral certificate;
2Susanna, dead at the time of her grandfather's funeral certificate;
Residence
Richard, his wife and family, lived for a time in the Low Countries before 1564.[5]
From at least 1564, he lived in St Dunstan-in-the-East parish, London, during 1573 to 1599 in a property which he rented from the Grocers' Company.[1]
He had an estate at South Ockendon, Essex, which he purchased in 1576 from Edward Tyrell,[1] and he owned the manors of Ledsham, Yorkshire, and Moorhall, Yardley, Essex.[1]
Career
He was apprenticed to Richard Stanfield of the Skinners' Company. Richard became free of that company in 1551[1] and by 1589, master of the Skinners Company, a position he held several times between then and 1600.[5] He traded with Iberia, Turkey, Russia and the Levant.[1]
Richard was the mayor of London in 1597.[3]
By 1598, Richard had secured the post of customer of London, with his son Samuel as his assistant.[1]
In the 1590s, he was estimated to be worth £20,000.[1]
Knighted c March, 1598; M.P. London 1586-7; Auditor 1578 80: Treasurer St. Thomas' Hospital 1575-7; Governor Merchant Adventurers; Collector Customs, London; Master Skinners 1589, 1593, 1595, 1599. Died March 17, 1601; Will [P.C.C. 32 Woodhall]; proved May 19, 1601. -- Alfred P Beaven. "Chronological list of aldermen: 1501-1600," in The Aldermen of the City of London Temp. Henry III - 1912, (London: Corporation of the City of London, 1908), 20-47. British History Online, accessed December 24, 2016, [6]
Death
Sir Richard Saltonstall died on 17 March 1600/1at his house[3] in South Ockendon.[1] He is buried in the parish church of St Nicholas at South Ockendon where there is an alabaster monument to him.[1]
His funeral was held on Tuesday, 7 April 1601, and was worshipfully solemnised according to his degree at Southockenden, Essex: his standard was born by his son-in-law, Richard Wiche; the penon of his arms by his son-in-law, John Harby; the penon of London by his son-in-law, Thomas Mydelton; the penon of the Skinners by his son-in-law, Thomas Wheler; the penon of the Muscovy Company by his son-in-law, William Brown; and William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms and Jeames Thomas als Chester attended.[3]
In his will, Sir Richard left one third to his wife, a second third was to provide a bequest of £1,000 to his unmarried daughter, Martha, with the remainder divided between his sons, and the final third, after deductions for specific bequests to be divided between his wife and minor children. His sons-in-law, Richard Wyche, John Harvie and Thomas Myddleton, all of the Skinners' Company, were overseers of his will.[1]
His will was disputed by his natural daughter, Abigail Baker, in 1602, and later by his sons. [1]
Richard was born in 1505. He passed away in 1581.
·Ä¢Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch ¬â€ : Sir Richard Lord Mayor SALTONSTALL
Parents:
Richard De Saltonstall
Note: (80 yrs old in 1601) Notes from http://searches2.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2004-06/1088204475 RICHARD SALTONSTALL the elder citizen and alderman of London (day and month blank) 1597, proved 19 May 1601. --Susanna my well beloved wife; --daughter Martha one thousand pounds and the rest to and amongst my sons, advanced or not advanced at the time of my death; --To Samuel Saltonstall and every of my sons in law three pounds six shillings eight pence apiece; --Anne Havie, my daughter, now the wife of John Harvie citizen and skinner of London, if she shall survive and overlive her said husband, shall have the use and occupying of two hundred pounds during her natural life without paying anything for the use thereof. And if she die and shall leave Richard Harvie her son surviving her then I give and bequeath the said sum to the said Richard; --To every of the children of my daughter Susanna Browne, now deceased, fifty pounds apiece, at such time as they shall severally come to the full ages of one and twenty years or the daughter be married. I do remit and forgive to William Browne my son in law those three score and ten pounds which he oweth me. --To my nephews Richard Middleton and Thomas Middleton, the sons of my late daughter Hester Saltonstall deceased, late the wife of Thomas Myddleton, fifty pounds apiece at one and twenty; --To Sara Saltonstall my daughter, now the wife of Thomas Wheeler, four hundred pounds; --To Elizabeth Saltonstall my dauhgter, now the wife of Richard Wich, four hundred pounds; --Edward my son; --My wife and son Samuel to be executors and my friends John Harvie, Thomas Middleton and Richard Wiche to be overseers. Woodhall, 32
sir richard Birth: 1521 in So Ockendon, Essex, England, United Kingdom Death: BEF 19 MAY 1601 in Middlesex, London, England, United Kingdom Father: Gilbert SALTONSTALL b: 1495 Marriage 1 Susanna Elizabeth POYNTZ b: ABT 1528 in Middlesex, London, England, United Kingdom¬â€ : ABT 1555 in England, United Kingdom Children Gilbert SALTONSTALL b: ABT 1560 in South Ockendon, Essex, England, Martha SALTONSTALL Sir Samuel SALTONSTALL Anne SALTONSTALL Susanna SALTONSTALL Hester SALTONSTALL b: ABT 1554 in Middlesex, London, England, Sara SALTONSTALL Elizabeth SALTONSTALL b: 24 JAN 1557 in Middlesex, London, England, Edward SALTONSTALL Miss SALTONSTALL Richard SALTONSTALL

·Ä¢Fact: Burial (March 1601) South Ockendon, Thurrock, Essex, England, United Kingdom

Sources
1·Üë 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 Ian W. Archer, ·ÄòSaltonstall, Sir Richard (1521?·Äì1601)·Äô, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 (http://www.oxforddnb.com.rp.nla.gov.au/view/article/24580, accessed 4 Nov 2017).
2·Üë Leverett Saltonstall, Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall, First Associate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Patentee of Connecticutt, (1897), 3-4, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/ancestrydescenda00salt#page/2/mode/2up accessed 4 November 2017.
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4·Üë 4.0 4.1 Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall, 7, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/ancestrydescenda00salt#page/n35/mode/2up accessed 4 November 2017.
5ᆑ 5.0 5.1 A M Mimardière, "SALTONSTALL, Richard (d.1601), of London and South Ockendon, Essex." History of Parliament Online, (originally published by Boydell and Brewer, 1981), http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/saltonstall-richard-1601 accessed 5November 2017.
6·Üë (under 1588)

·Ä¢"Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org¬â€ : modified 09 December 2018, 03:21), entry for Richard Saltonstall(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LX93-TLD); contributed by various users.
See also:
·Ä¢Wikipedia: Richard Saltonstall (mayor)
·Ä¢Richard Saltonstall History of Parliament
·Ä¢Vis. Herts. 1634, page 90.
·Ä¢M.I.
·Ä¢Will. Old link broken - TO DO - find new link
·Ä¢Thoresby, Ralph: Ducatus Leodiensis, 1st edn (1714), p. 236, under Ledsham. Derived from Hopkinson; not correct.
·Ä¢Watson, John: Halifax (1775), p. 237. Not correct.
·Ä¢Hunter, Joseph: F.M.G., pt 2 of 4, Harleian Soc. 38 (1895), page 639. Not correct.
·Ä¢Brown, Yorkshire Deeds, vol 2, page 76, footnote. Not correct.
·Ä¢Marlyn Lewis.
·Ä¢Richardson, Douglas: Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), 4 vols, Volume 4, page 385, WYCHE 13.
·Ä¢"Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org¬â€ : modified 15 February 2015, 13:45), entry for RICHARD DE Saltonstall(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LVDJ-DXB); contributed by various users.
·Ä¢"Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org¬â€ : modified 05 June 2018, 01:29), entry for Richard Saltonstall(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:K2J6-Z3F); contributed by various users.
·Ä¢https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/vitals/K2J6-Z3F

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