Gent James Shelton, I

SEVERE case of Garbage In Garbage Out, prompted by wishful thinking, and compounded by geographic ignorance.

There is no evidence that he was related to the De la Warr family.

There are no Sheltons on the early lists of settlers.

There are no Sheltons on the Living & Dead list (1623) or the Muster list (1625).

Barbados is NOT one of the Bermuda island group - it is in the Lesser Antilles.

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He is not even a Shelton. http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?o=10&m=2812.2.1.2.1.1.1&p=su...

"Ah, I suspected so. Ralph d. Isle de Rhe, is recorded in the visitation records as dying "s.p" -- sine prole -- without issue. "Gentleman James Shelton" is in the London Company records clearly recorded as "James Skelton", and he is of the Armithwaite Castle Skeltons. Whitaker's work was long-ago shot full of holes -- this particular linage, among other problems, includes a Shelton who died without children and a Skelton who wasn't even a Shelton."

Nope, no Skeltons in Accomack/Northampton either.

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Gent, ( NOT the Son of Sir Ralph 26th Lord of Shelton - see notes below p.10) came to America in June 1610 with his relative Lord Delaware and was a resident of Jamestown in 1620; member of the first courts of America 1619 and 1624. Move to the Bermuda about 1630 after trade was opened and died in Barbados 1668. (His fatther, Sir Ralph, member of the London Company for settlement of Virginia.) His wife was named Ann and he had a brother Thomas (see notes)

From "The Sheltons" by Z.F. Shelton, 1962 P 12

Captain James Shelton (the Immigrant) was a member of the Virginia Company, Second Charter, and came to Virginia in 1610 with his cousin Lord Delaware. He was a resident of Jamestown in 1620. He was a member of the Council of the London Company of Virginia in 1624. He and his wife Anne, moved to Bermuda about 1630. He died in the Barbados in 1668.

re: Ibid., Vol.I, page 212

Z. F. Shelton, op cit., page 10-12

John Smith, op cit., page 363

Notes

From http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.shelton/2812.2.1.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb...

Sorry but this info is not correct and is clearly from a the faulty work of Mildred Campbell Whitaker. Sir Ralph Shelton, born 1 Feb 1560/1 was the third but youngest surviving son of Sir Ralph Shelton and Mary Wodehouse. His only recorded marriage was 8 Jan 1605/6 at Rushbrooke, co Suffolk to Dorothy Jermyn daughter of Sir Robert Jermyn of Rushbrooke and Judith Blague. Sir Ralph died in battle at the Isle of Rhe in 1628 with no issue and his estates passed to his next heir his half-brother Henry Shelton. If you research Blomfield's Topographical History of Norfolk, the Inquistions Post Mortem, Visitation of Norfolk, Norwich probate records you will see this person died without issue and therefore had no children. The main line of Shelton of Norfolk daughtered out in 1749 with the death of Maurice Shelton. Ralph Sheldon of Beoley co Warwicks was a Sheldon and NOT a Shelton and had no connection to Shelton of Norfolk. The Sheldons of Warwickshire are a substantial and well documented family.

James possible parents:

1) Jane West m4. Ralph Sheldon, widower of Anne Throckmorton. No children. Not likely to be the parents of James.

2) Ralph Shelton, married Dorothy Shermyn, no children. He died without heirs, and his estate passed to his half-brother. Not likely to have married Jane and had a son James.

Other ideas?

Janet Palo-Jackson (26 Mar 2015)

Notes

From http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.shelton/2812.2.1.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb...

"Ralph d. Isle de Rhe, is recorded in the visitation records as dying "s.p" -- sine prole -- without issue. "Gentleman James Shelton" is in the London Company records clearly recorded as "James Skelton", and he is of the Armithwaite Castle Skeltons. Whitaker's work was long-ago shot full of holes -- this particular linage, among other problems, includes a Shelton who died without children and a Skelton who wasn't even a Shelton."