Edward Egleston

Edward EGLESTON

• Edward EGLESTON was born about 1600.

History

WILLIAM EGLESTON OF WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX - 1549-1646

Edward mentioned in his father's will, along with his half-sister Mary. "The will of John Egleston is curious in that after naming his son as the sole executor, he also names 'the right worshipful Lawrence Asheburnham Esq. my loving coson to bee the sole executor of this my last will and testament.' As mentioned earlier, Lawrence Asheburnham may have been the son of Margaret Asheburnham (nèe Woodward), whose younger sister, Mary Woodward, married John’s uncle’ Thomas Egleston.

"The last record of any Egleston or variants of that name found at Winchelsea is when the mayor summoned Arthur Eccleston to 'be and of the jures and courts' in September 1646. The brothers may have been the last of this branch of Eglestons, ending a 100 year association with the town, but it has yet to be established whether the male line continued through the descendents of Edward Egleston (born circa 1600), the son of Thomas Egleston and Mary (Woodward/Egleston/Raynolds), or through Edward Egleston (bapt.13 October 1633), the son of John Egleston (Eccleston) and his wife, Jane. Either of them may have survived childhood, but their names have yet to be found in Winchelsea Court Books or in the parish registers of the town."