Tagging the profiles
William Compton, of Gravesend
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You’re citing an online tree with a nice Biography, but there is no citation for his birth or for his wife.
The first immigrants to America have been studied for many years, and for most of them, we don’t know their English parentage at all. And for immigrants to New England, there were no Earl’s sons. If this were true, it would have been a Big Deal in his own lifetime, not to mention in all the books and articles since.
So let’s start with Spencer Compton’s Wikipedia biography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Compton,_2nd_Earl_of_Northampton
He has a son William listed:
William (c. 1625–1663) one of the original members of the Royalist organisation, The Sealed Knot
This William Compton has a Wikipedia page of his own:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Compton_(army_officer)
Compton married Elizabeth (née Tollemache), daughter of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Stanhope, and widow of William Alington, 1st Baron Alington. They had no children. She died in 1671.[2]
Compton died suddenly in Drury Lane, London, on 18 October 1663, and was buried at Compton-Wynyates, Warwickshire, where a monument was erected to his memory.[2]
Did Wikipedia make a mistake?
