Hatton
compiled and copyright by MJP Grundy, 2002
Nicotiana tabacum, from Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People
(Phila.: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1885), 9:462.

            I do not intend this to be the definitive Hatton family genealogy; its purpose is only to explore the individuals from whom our particular family line descends, namely Richard Hatton, his ancestors, wife Margaret (Domville), their daughter Elinor Hatton Brooke Darnall, and her son Thomas Brooke. Bold face type indicates individuals who are ancestors of our particular family, whether or not they are Hattons. Most of their lines have been posted and linked to this one. If any reader has corrections or additions to this specific Hatton line, I would appreciate hearing from you at .

            Sources can be found by clicking on a bracketted number; or see all the citations at the bottom of this page. This part is currently being revised.

English Ancestors

            There were at least three Hatton families in England in the sixteenth century and secondary sources seem to blythely conflate them, mixing and matching with little regard for documentation. So I am particularly grateful to William Good for sorting them out for me, and providing sources on his web page. With his kind permission I have incorporated much of his data.

            Our family descends from Robert Hatton^A, rector of Lymm, in northern Cheshire. Robert Hatton was baptised at Frodsham, Cheshire, 1 February 1565/66. He matriculated at Christ Church College, Oxford, July 15, 1586, aged 20, and graduated with a B.A. November 20, 1591. Presumably first he was a curate, then January 13, 1601/2 he was named Headmaster of Frodsham School, in the Diocese of Chester. He was appointed Rector of Lymm, Cheshire, June 15, 1611, not far to the northeast of Frodsham. Robert presumably continued to serve that parish the rest of his life, and was buried at Lymm, March 8, 1643/4. He married, but his wife's name is unknown, at least to me.

            Children of Robert Hatton:

i.          Jane Hatton¹b. ca. 1596; buried there 20 June 1659; married at Lymm, 14 February 1614/15, Richard RYDER, and had six sons and five daughters.

ii.          William Hatton, b. ca. 1598; married at Lymm, 27 January 1622/23, Joane HAYWARDE.

iii.          Robert Hatton, b. ca. 1601; buried at Saint Botolph-without-Bishopsgate 8 November 1639; married on 1 June 1637 at St Bride's, Fleet Street, London, Elizabeth (__) (ca. 1597-1666), widow of William KINSEY. Robert was Curate of Lymm, Cheshire 1627-1631, and of Saint Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, London, 1631-1639. He had one daughter.

iv.          James Hatton, bapt. at Frodsham, Cheshire, 22 January 1602/03. Died before 1645.

v.          Richard Hatton, bapt. at Frodsham 17 Feb. 1604/05; d. ca. 1648; married, ca. 1630 Margaret, daughter of Edward Domville, of Lymm.

vi.          Thomas Hatton, bapt. at Frodsham, 12 July 1607; killed at the Battle of the Severn, Maryland, 25 March 1655; married Margaret (died 1657). Thomas was Secretary of Maryland 1648-1654. They had children (may be incomplete):

          a) Elizabeth Hatton, baptised 18 Sept. 1636, in Lymm; may have d. in childbirth; m(1) before 1721 Cornelius MANNING; m(2) as his second wife William COMBS; had one son, Thomas Hatton COMBS.[9b]
          b) Robert Hatton, bapt. 18 July 1637, St Andrew, Holborn, London
          c) Thomas Hatton, born 14 March 1642/3, may be the Thomas bapt. at St. Dunstan in the West, London, 21 Mar. 1642/3; d. 1676; m(1) the widowed daughter of James and Barbara (Hatton) Johnson (Barbara then married Randolph HANSON), the daughter was then step-daughter of Randolph Hanson, and she probably d. in childbirth ca. 1671; Thomas m(2) Elizabeth (Gosse) WAUGHOP, daughter of John and Joan (__) Gosse, and step-daughter of John WAUGHOP.[10a]

vii.           Edward Hatton, bapt. at Frodsham, in February 1609/10; d. ca. 1647.

viii.           Susanna Hatton, bapt. at Frodsham 6 January 1612/3; buried 4 April 1613 at Lymm.

Immigrant Generation

            Richard Hatton¹, son of Robert, was baptised at Frodsham, Cheshire, on 17 February 1604/05. He died about 1648. Richard married, ca. 1630, Margaret DOMVILLE, daughter of Edward Domville, of Lymm, and his wife Eleanor LEYCESTER, daughter of Lawrence Leycester, of Chester. Richard's father had been appointed Rector of Lymm in 1611. The manor of Lymm was the traditional seat of his wife's family, the Domvilles. I do not know if Edward was Lord of the Manor or a younger son.

            Richard had died by 1649 when his brother Thomas Hatton helped Margaret and her children emigrate to Maryland. Thomas probably met Cecil CALVERT through his friend Thomas MOTHAM, Gent., a clerk in Chancery Lane.[10] Margaret was listed as a widow, sister-in-law of Secretary Thomas Hatton, and in one record is marked as immigrating in 1649, meaning that she came as a free adult, and in another record as being transported, meaning that someone else paid her way. Her children Mary, Elinor, Elizabeth, Barbara, Richard, and William were all listed as being transported.[11]

            Margaret (Domville) Hatton married secondly, before 10 April 1653, Richard BANKS. She was listed as the wife of Lt. Richard Banks in 1652.[12] He had arrived in 1646.

            Margaret witnessed the will of Thomas KEMP on 19 July 1665.[17]  It seems to have been less common for women to witness wills in Maryland than a little later in Quaker Pennsylvania.

            Children of Richard and Margaret (Domville) Hatton (order uncertain): [18]

i.          William Hatton², b. ca. 1633 in Eng.; d. 1725; emigrated in 1649 to St. Mary’s Co.; he was a Gentleman, planter; res. Charles Co. by 1689; res. Prince George’s Co. after 1695; m(1) Elizabeth WILKINSON, daughter of Rev. William Wilkinson. Elizabeth’s sister Rebecca m(1) Thomas DENT and m(2) John ADDISON, and we are descended from Rebecca and both of her husbands. William Hatton and Thomas Dent were executors for the estate of their father-in-law, William Wilkinson.[19] William m(2) Mary ___. Although William was Presbyterian, he was elected to the (Anglican) Piscattaway Vestry in Charles Co. 1693-1704 when membership in the newly established church was a requirement for public office. He served in the Lower House 1671-74/5, 1676-82, 1682-84, and from Prince George’s Co., 1696-97. William was frequently consulted on Native American affairs. He was a Justice on St. Mary’s Co. court 1675/6-89, on Charles Co. court 1689-94, and on the Provincial Court 1694-99. His estate inventory was valued at £422.8.5 sterling and included five enslaved people, one servant, two parcels of books, and 1,620 acres.[20]  On 19 Oct. 1658 his 500 ac. “Hatton” in Talbot Co. was listed on Lord Baltimore’s Rent Roll.[21]

ii.        Barbara Hatton, bpt. 12 Jan. 1633/4 in Lymm; m. 1650 James JOHNSON, who emigrated as a free adult to St. Mary’s Co. in 1640. He was a Protestant, planter, local justice, and served in the Assembly 1641/2. In 1647 James called Richard BENNETT a rogue, and expressed support for Edward HILL. At his death he probably owned about 700 acres.[27]

iii.         Elizabeth Hatton, bapt. 15 Feb. 1634/5; m(1) Luke GARDINER (1622-1674); m(2) Clement HILL (d. 1708). Elizabeth was raised Anglican but converted to Roman Catholicism. Gardiner emigrated in 1637 with his parents from Virginia to St. Mary’s Co. They fled to Virginia during Ingle’s rebellion. Luke was either indentured or apprenticed to Thomas COPLEY in 1637. By 1660 Luke was styled “Gent.” He was a Catholic, justice, sheriff, and served in the Lower House 1659/60, 1661, 1662, and 1671. In his will, signed 25 Apr. 1703 and pr. 4 May 1705, Luke asked to be buried with Catholic rites. His estate inventory was valued at £632.18.0 sterling, and included 3 enslaved people and 10 servants, with over 5,000 acres.[25] Hill was also a Catholic, planter, whose marriage brought rapid upward mobility. He served in the Lower House 1678-82, 1682-84, 1686; in the Upper House 1686-88; in the Provincial Council 1685-89. He was a Provincial justice, joint commissary general, who was displaced because of his religion in 1689. At his death he owned 7 slaves, 2 servants, and 2,400 acres; his estate was valued at £568.6.6 sterling.[26]

iv.        Mary Hatton, bapt. 25 Feb. 1637/8; m. Zachary WADE (ca. 1627-1678). He was probably a Protestant, arr. as a servant indentured to Margaret BRENT (ca. 1600-1670/1); a planter, merchant, and served in the Lower House 1658, 1659/60, 1662, 1666. He was also a justice. At his death he owned four indentured servants, one slave, and 4,120 acres. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters. His estate inventory was valued at 88,762 lbs. of tobacco.[24]

v.         Elinor Hatton, bapt. 1 Sept. 1640; d. 1725 in Maryland; m(1) Thomas BROOKE; m(2) Henry DARNALL. See below.

vi.        Susanna Hatton, bapt. 18 Sept. 1642 at Lymm; d. before 1649.

vii.        Richard Hatton, b. ca. 1644; m. by 1674 a very young Ann PRICE (b. 1659), daughter of John Price (ca. 1607-1660/1) who served in the Md. legislature. John Price was a Protestant but a loyal supporter of the proprietary.[22] Richard signed his will 9 July 1678, and it was administered by his brother William m. 14 Feb. 1674/5 in St. Mary’s Co.[23] Richard received 300 acres from Thomas Hatton (pressumably his uncle) in 1655.[23a]

Second Generation in Maryland

        Elinor Hatton² was born in England, the daughter of Richard and Margaret (Domville) Hatton, and baptised 1 September 1640 at Lymm, Cheshire. She died in 1725. The spelling of her name, like so many in the seventeenth century, varies. Some sources use the modern spelling, Eleanor. I don't know which she might have used herself; she may have used both, as consistent orthography was not considered relevant to good breeding.

        Elinor emigrated to St. Mary’s County with her widowed mother and siblings in 1649. She was about nine years old.

        Elinor married Thomas BROOKE, second son of the wealthy Robert Brooke of De La Brooke Manor in Charles County. Although Thomas had been raised Protestant, he too converted to Roman Catholicism. He died shortly before 29 December 1676 when his will was probated.[29]

        Elinor married for a second time Henry DARNALL, who was born ca. 1645 in Hertfordshire, the son of Philip, secretary to Sir George CALVERT, first Lord Baltimore, and his wife Mary. Mary's will was purposefully destroyed by Henry. The reason could have been that he did not want his brother-in-law to have any claim to the land. Henry was then sued by the brother-in-law but they settled out of court. Mary did have an inventory, which was surveyed by Richard MARSHAM and Thomas GREENFIELD (a neutral party that many in Maryland trusted) and was listed in Calvert County. Henry emigrated to Maryland about 1670, and resided at “The Wood-yard” in Prince George’s County.[30]  In addition to its other assets the “Wood-yard” had skilled slave carpenters.[31]

        Elinor and Henry had their portraits painted, perhaps by Justus Englehardt Kuhn (d. 1717). The painting of Elinor is unsigned, and there is an open question as to the artist. Elinor is shown "with brown hair piled on head, wearing a fairly low-cut red dress with a dark blue-green shawl." The oil painting on canvas is in the Painting Collection of the Maryland Historical Society, which describes it as having "an oval format on rectangular canvas, with brown corners."[31a]

Like her first husband, Elinor’s second also served in the Lower House of the Maryland legislature in 1674, resigning to become sheriff of Calvert County from 1674-79. Henry served in the Upper House 1681-82, 1682-84, 1686-88, and in the Council 1679-89. In keeping with his high social and political status, Henry served in a number of offices: Provincial justice, 1679-89; joint chancellor and commisary general, 1682/3-85; Board of Deputy Governors, 1684-89; Land Council, 1684-89; rent roll keeper, 1684-89; chancellor, 1685-89. He was also in the military, at the rank of Captain 1676-79, Lieutenant Colonel 1679-81; and Colonel 1681-89. When the Glorious Revolution swept the Stuarts out of power, Henry was the leading supporter of the proprietary establishment. When it lost in 1689 he, too, was removed from office. He then served as Lord Baltimore’s primary agent, retaining only the office of receiver general, which he held from 1684 to 1711.[32]

Henry’s first wife, whose name is unknown to me, had also been Catholic. They had five children, who Elinor helped raise. Henry’s son Philip married Elinor’s daughter Elinor Brooke.[33]

Henry died 17 June 1711. He had signed his will 28 April 1711 and it was probated 17 July that year. His estate was inventoried with 105 slaves and over 26,000 acres, valued at £3,505.3.3 sterling. Elinor received the dwelling plantation and one third of Henry’s personalty during her life. He bequeathed land to his sons-in-law Charles CARROLL, Clement HILL, and Edward DIGGS.[34]

Elinor died in 1725. Her will was dated 31 March 1724 and probated 21 February. Her bequests were unequal, indicating the possibility of previous gifts, a recognition of present unequal circumstances, or favoritism. Her son Ignatius, a Jesuit priest, was omitted. She bequeathed £10 each to her son Thomas BROOKE and her daughter Mary WITHAM. Her daughter Eleanor DIGGS received £100 and Eleanor’s sons Henry and Philip Darnall Diggs got £50, being the debt due them from their father (Elinor’s son-in-law) William Diggs. Her son Clement’s debt of £460 due to John HYDE & Co., merchants of London, was to be paid before dividing the estate. She gave £25 to Rev. George THOROLD (1670-1742), who had been the Catholic priest at St. Francis Xavier in Newtown, St. Mary’s Co. from 1723. She also gave £10 to the poor. The residue of her estate was to be divided between Edward Diggs, and her step-children Mary CARROLL, Ann HILL, and Henry DARNALL. Henry was named executor.[35]

Children of Elinor and her first husband, Thomas Brooke (order uncertain): [36]

i.          Thomas Brooke, b. ca. 1659; d. 7 Jan. 1730/1 in Prince George’s Co. [36a]; m(1) Ann ___; m(2) Barbara DENT.

ii.         Robert Brooke, b. 24 Oct. 1663; d. 18 July 1714 at Newtown, Charles Co.; educated at a Catholic school established in Maryland in 1677; became a Jesuit priest at Watten in 1684, the first Maryland-born man to become a priest. He settled at St. Ignatius Church in Port Tobacco, Md.[37]

iii.        Ignatius Brooke, b. 1670; d. 1751; a Jesuit priest, entering the Society of Jesus in 1697.

iv.        Matthew Brooke, b. 1672; d. 1703 or 1762[38]; a Jesuit priest, entering the Society of Jesus in 1699.

v.         Clement Brooke, b. 1676; d. 1737; m. Jane SEWALL, daughter of Nicholas Sewall (ca. 1655-1737) and his wife Susanna (BURGESS); Nicholas was a Catholic planter and served in the Upper House, Council, on the Provincial court, Board of Deputy Governors, and as secretary of the province. He attained the rank of major. Jane's step-father was Charles CALVERT, third Lord Baltimore.[39]

vi.        Elinor Brooke, m(1) Philip DARNALL (1671-1705) her step-brother, son of Henry Darnall by his first wife; m (2) William DIGGS, son of William (ca. 1650-1697). William Sr. was a Protestant with a Catholic wife, Elizabeth SEWALL (d. ca. 1710); he was the only Protestant on the governor's Council in 1689; after the Glorious Revolution he removed to Virginia where his plantation became a refuge for his Catholic relatives and friends.[40]

vii.       Mary Brooke, m(1) James BOWLING (1636-1693) of St. Mary's Co.; m(2) Benjamin HALL (1667-1721) of Prince George's Co., son of Richard Hall. Benjamin was raised a Quaker, became a nominal Anglican when he served in the Md. legis., then converted to Roman Catholicism; m(3) Henry WITHAM.[41]

Children of Henry Darnall and his first wife, who Elinor helped raise:[42]

i.          Philip Darnall, b. 1671; d. 1705; m. his step-sister, Elinor, daughter of Thomas BROOKE (1632-1676).

ii.         Mary Darnall, b. 1678; d. 1742; m. 14 Feb. 1693 Charles CARROLL (1660-1720), as his second wife. His first wife, Martha UNDERWOOD, d. Nov. 1690. To distinguish him from several other men of the same name, he was often referred to as “the Attorney General”, son of Daniel Carroll of Litterlouna, Ireland. Mary Carroll was mentioned in her step-mother's will.[43]

iii.        Ann Darnall, b. 1680; d. 1749; m. 1696 Clement HILL, nephew and heir of Clement Hill (d. 1708) whose second wife was Elizabeth (Hatton) Gardiner, daughter of Richard Hatton. Hill served in the Md. legislature.[44]  Ann Hill was mentioned in her step-mother's will.

iv.        Henry Darnall, b. 1682; d. 1759; m. Ann DIGGS, daughter of William Diggs, or Digges, (ca. 1650-1697) who served in the Md. legislature.[45] Henry was named executor of his step-mother’s estate. It may be Henry's whose children Hnery Darnall III (1702-1787) and Eleanor Darnall (1704-1796) were painted by Justus Englehardt Kuhn.

The story continues with the Brooke family.

The Hattons and their colonial Maryland relatives are described in The Southern Connection: Ancestors of Eleanor Addison Smith Holliday Price. It delves into the social system, economics, religion, and politics that developed in colonial Maryland. The white elite considered themselves the pinnacle of civilization, while their wealth and power were dependent upon a horrifically brutal racist enslavement system. This hardback print-on-demand book provides the context for the Hattons' colonial Maryland situation. It also uncovers the English roots of the family. However, because I only follow two generations of the Hatton family, they do not figure prominently in the book, although Margaret (Domville) Hatton's brother-in-law Thomas Hatton did play a fairly large role in 17th c. Maryland politics. If you are interested in learning about the larger picture, this might interest you. The book is available at lulu.com. Click on the title, then on "preview" to see the table of contents and a few sample pages. The price is the cost of printing and binding, plus shipping. I make nothing on it.

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Citations and Notes

9b. My thanks to William Good who has carefully researched the wives of Wiliam Combs. See his account on his web page.

10a. My thanks to William Good who has carefully researched wills and church records to document Thomas Hatton's marriages. See his web page.

10. Biog. Dic. of the Md. Legis., 1:422.

11. Gust Skordas, The Early Settlers of Maryland: An Index to Names of Immigrants Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968), 215-16, citing Lib. ABH, fol. 314, 422; Lib. 2, fol. 613; Lib. 5, fol. 257; Lib. 19, fol. 375.

11a. Robert Barnes, "First Ladies of Maryland, 1634-1777, Part III", The Archivists' Bulldog, Newsletter of the Maryland State Archives, Vol. 16, no. 17 (Sept. 23, 2002), 4. See Jane Baldwin, ed. Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol. 1, citing 1. 65, on the web at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/md/state/wills/01/001.html, accessed 4m/6/2012.

12. Skordas, The Early Settlers of Maryland, 215-16, citing Liber ABH, folio 314; Barnes, Maryland Marriages, 1634-1777, 205, citing Md. Arch., 10:259.

13. Davis, The Day-Star of American Freedom, 235-36, 151-52.

14. Davis, The Day-Star of American Freedom, 230, 233.

15. Davis, The Day-Star of American Freedom, 233-35.

16. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:423; John Gilmary Shea, The Catholic Church in Colonial Days (New York: John G. Shea, 1886), 70.

17. Jane Baldwin, comp. and ed., The Maryland Calendar of Wills, vol. 1: ; Wills from 1635 (Earliest Probated) to 1685 (Balt.: Kohn & Pollock, Publishers, 1904), 1:32.

18. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:423.

19. Maryland Calendar of Wills, 1:26.

20. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:423.

21. Hester Dorsey Richardson, Side-Lights on Maryland History with Sketches of Early Maryland Families (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Company, 1913) 2 vols., 1:344.

22. For information on Price, see Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 2:660-61.

23. V. L. Skinner, Jr., comp. Abstracts of the Inventories and Accounts of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. 15? Vols. (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1992), 1:66.

23a. Charles Lee Mudd genealogy page, citing Md. patents Liber ABH, fol. 422, Hall of Records, Annapolis. I have not checked this myself.

24. For information on Wade, see Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 2:851.

25. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:344-45; Md. Calendar of Wills, 3:54.

26. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:440-41.

27. For more information on Johnson, see Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 2:493.

28. Shea, The Catholic Church in Colonial Days, 74.

29. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:171-72.

30. E mail 3/29/2012 from Brian Hessick, who also kindly sent me a facsimile image of the inventory.

31. Gloria L. Main, Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982), 85.

31a. David Touchette, a descendant of Elinor's youngest son, Clement Brooke, gave me the web link to the portrait. He was told about it by Ty Brooke, another descendant. I thank them both for sharing this information.

32. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:250-51.

33. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:250.

34. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:251; Md. Calendar of Wills, 3:196-98.

35. Md. Calendar of Wills, 5:223.

36. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:171.

36a. Date of death from Gretchen McKinsey-Clarke's website on miniquilt.com; she cites "Buchanan Family", Tom Buchanan, 5/25/2000.

37. Shea, The Catholic Church in Colonial Days, 84; Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware and Georgia, Publications of the Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, No. 5 (Lancaster, Mass.: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1950), 35.

38. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:171 says he d. 1703; "The Brooke Family", 96, and Gretchen McKinsey-Clarke's website on miniquilt.com, in which she cites "Buchanan Family" Tom Buchanan, 5/25/2000 say he d. 1762. In the absence of my own research into primary sources, I would tend to go with the Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis.

39. For  information on Sewall, see Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 2:724-25.

40. For information on Diggs, see Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:271-72. Elizabeth Sewall was the daughter of Henry (d. 1665), step-daughter of Charles Calvert, 3rd Lord Baltimore, and widow of Jesse Wharton. Ibid., 2:939.

41. For information on Hall, see Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:381-82.

42. Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:250-51.

43. Robert Barnes, The Green Spring Valley: Its History and Heritage, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1978), 2:10.

44. For  information on Clement Hill, Sr., see Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:440-41.

45. For information on William Diggs, see Biog. Dic. of Md. Legis., 1:271-72.

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