Frances Abell

• 'Frances Cotton1,2
• 'F, b. circa 1573, d. between 1630 and 16 April 1646
• Father Richard Cotton, Esq.3,4 b. c 1539, d. 14 Jun 1602
• Mother Mary Mainwaring3,4 b. c 1541, d. b 14 Jun 1578
• ' Frances Cotton was born circa 1573 at Combermere, Cheshire, England.3,2 She married George Abell, Gent., son of Robert Abell, on 1 May 1599 at Wrenbury, Cheshire, England; They had 3 sons (George, Robert, & Richard) and 1 daughter (Mary).3,5,2 Frances Cotton died between 1630 and 16 April 1646.3,2
• 'Family George Abell, Gent. b. c 1561, d. c 8 Sep 1630
• Children
  • ◦Joanne Abell+
  • ◦Mary Abell b. c 1600, d. a 1646
  • ◦George Abell b. c 1602, d. a 1646
  • ◦Robert Abell+6,2 b. c 1605, d. 20 Jun 1663
  • ◦Richard Abell b. c 1608, d. a 1646
• Citations
• 1.[S2728] Unknown author, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 1-2; Ancestors of American Presidents by Gary Boyd Roberts, p. 149.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 2.
• 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 33.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 1.
• 5.[S15] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 1.
• 6.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 34.
• Our Royalty

Sources:

Thompson, Neil D, FASG, Abell-Cotton-Mainwaring: Maternal Ancestry of Robert Abell of Weymouth & Rehoboth, MA, The Genealogist, Vol 5, Issue 2 (Assoc for Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, Fall, 1984, NY), pp 161, 162

Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999, p 62, Line 56A-43

Boyer, Carl III, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, PO Box 220333, Santa Clarita, CA 91322-0333

Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT 84150, USA, www.familysearch.org, International Genealogical Index, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church, Text: Frances Cotton; Female; Birth: About 1573 Hemington, Leicester, England; Death: 1646; Spouse: George A. Abell; Marriage: 01 MAY 1599 Lockington, Leicester, England; No source information is available.

Numerous sources cite varying birth and death dates and locations. Some of these include:

Birth: 1565 at Hemington, England

Birth: 1565 at Combermere, Cheshire, England

Birth: 1573 at Hemington, England

Death: 30 Sep 1630 at Lockington, Leicastershire, England

Death: 1631

Death: Before 16 Apr 1646 at Lockington, Leicastershire, England

Death: "Between 08 Sep 1630 & 16 Apr 1646"

Sources seem equally documented.

Conflicting data states that Mary Mainwaring & Jane Silliard are mother of Frances Cotton.

Richard Cotton is a direct descendant of Charlemagne.

Royal Descent of Robert Abell From Charlemagne through de Redvers line, which connects with de Courtenay.

1. Charlemagne, King of France & Emperor of the West, died 814. He had by 3rd wife, Kildegarde, who died 783, daughter of Childebrand, Duke of Suabia,

2. Pepin, King of Lombardy & Italy, 2nd son, who married Lady Bertha, daughter of William, Count of Toulouse.

3. Bernard, King of Lombardy, had by wife, Cunegonde,

4. Pepin, Count of Vermandois & Perronne, a lay abbot in 840.

5. Pepin de Senlis de Valois, Count Berengarious of Bretagne.

6. Lady Poppae de Valois, who married Rollo, Dane founder of Royal House of Normandy, & England, 1st Duke of Normandy in 912. Rollo died 932.

7. William, surnamed Longa Spatha or Long Sword, who ruled Normandy as 2nd Duke from 927-943.

8. Richard I, 3rd Duke of Normandy, surnamed Sans Peur, or Fearless, ruled Normandy 943-996. He had a natural son,

9. Godfrey, Earl of Ewe & Brion.

10. Gilbert, Earl of Brion, had 2 sons: Richard, who was ancestor of House of Clare in Eng, from which you descend through Surety Richard de Clare, & Baldwin, of whom further. Gilbert, Earl of Brion, married Herlena or Arlotta, mother of William, the Conqueror, & daughter of Fulbert de Croy.

11. Baldwin de Brionis, 2nd son, who for distinguished part he had in the Conquest obtained from King William I the Barony of Okehampton, the custody of the County of Devon, % government of the Castle of Exeter in fee. He & his descendants were called Lords of Exeter from this Castle. He married Albrida, daughter of Richard, surnamed of Goz, Count of Auranche, by his wife Emma (sister of William, the Conqueror). They had a daughter Emma, who married William de Abrancis, & their great-granddaughter Hawise married Reginald de Courtenay, & they were parents of Robert de Courtenay, who married Mary de Redvers, No. 15 in this line. This marriage brought the property back into one line.

12. Richard de Brionis or Abrincis, surnamed de Redvers. He resigned the barony of Okehampton, custody of Devon & government of Exeter to his nephew, Robert de Abrancis, but they were brought back in again when Hawise above married Reginald. He stood in high favor with King Henry I, who later made him Earl of Devon, & who granted him Isle of Wight in fee. He died 1137 & was buried at Brightley Abbey, but afterwards transferred to Ford Abbey. He married Adeliza, daughter & co-heiress of William Fitz-Osborne, Earl of Hereford. He was succeeded by his eldest son,

13. Baldwin de Redvers, 2nd Earl of Devon. This Earl upon demise of King Henry I, espousing the cause of Henry's daughter Maud or Matilda (who had married Henry, Emperor of Germany & thus called Empress Maud, who married later Geoffrey Plantagenet & they were parents of Henry II), took up arms immediately & fortified his castle at Exeter & Isle of Wight; but being besieged by King Stephen (son of Henry I's sister Adela & Stephen of Blois, Crusader), he was obliged to surrender the castle & all his other possessions & to withdraw & go into exile. (This fight between Empress Maud to put her young son Henry, a baby, on the throne of England, ended in an agreement between her & Stephen whereby she agreed to let him become King if in return her son Henry succeed him, which was done. Stephen was King 1135-1154 & Henry II was King 1154-1189.) Baldwin de Redvers took refuge at the court of Count of Anjou, & soon after conducted a successful raid into Normandy. About Lent in 1138 he was taken prisoner in Normandy by Enguerrard de Say, a partisan of Stephen, but escaped & returned to Eng in autumn of 1139, &, landing at Wareham, seized Castle of Corfu. This he defended successfully against the King, forcing him to eventually withdraw the siege. By the Empress Maud he was created Earl of Devon, probably about 1141. He married Lucia, daughter of Dru of Balun. He died June, 1155.

14. William de Redvers, 2nd son, surnamed Vernon, died 1216. He succeeded to the estates at death of his nephew Richard, as 6th Earl of Devon. This nobleman, upon the 2nd coronation of King Richard I, was 1 of 4 Earls that carried the silken canopy, he being then styled Earl of Isle of Wight. His lordship appears to have adhered steadily to King John, for we find that monarch, in the 18th year of his reign, providing for security of the Earl's property against Louis of France, which from his advanced age he was unable to defend himself. He married Mabel, daughter of Robert, Earl of Meulent, by whom he acquired a considerable accession to his landed possessions. She was of royal descent, as follows: (1) Charlemagne. (2) Pepin. (3) Bernard. (4) Pepin. (5) Herbert I, Count of Vermandois, d. 902. (6) Herbert, d. 943. (7) Albert I, d. 987. Married Princess Gerberga, daughter of Louis IV, King of France. (8) Herbert III, Count of Vermandois. (9) Otho, Count of Vermandois 1021-1045. (10) Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois 1045-1080, married Lady Hildebrante, Countess of Valois and Amiens, heiress and daughter of Raoul III, Count of Valoia. (11) Adelheid, only child, Countess of Vermandois 1080-1117, who married, as his 3rd wife, Hugh Magnus, Duke of France and Burgundy, Marquis of Orleans, Count of Paris, Valois and Vermandois; son of Henry I, King of France, by his wife Anne, daughter of Jarolaus of Russia; grandson of Hugh Capet, King of France. (12) Lady Isabel de Vermandois, d. 1131, married 1st Robert de Beaumont or Bellomonte, Earl of Meullent and Leicester, d. 1118. (She married 2nd William de Warren, & you are descended from them through Robert Abell & John Whitney in several different ways.) (13) Waleran, Count of Meulent, eldest son, being twin to Robert called Bossu, born 1104. He married Agnes, daughter of Aumarie de Montfort. (14) Robert, Count of Meulent, married a daughter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall. (15) Mabel Melleunt, as stated above, married William de Redvers, is 15th from Charlemagne, while her husband is 14th from Charlemagne as shown by these notes. We now continue the original line of which William de Redvers, who married this Mabel Melleunt, was 14th, with their daughter,

15. Mary de Redvers, youngest daughter of William and Mabel, married Robert de Courtney, No 4 in Courtney line. Mary's oldest brother died in the lifetime of her father & his son Baldwin succeeded his grandfather, & the line ran out in his descendants & the great-grandson of Mary & Robert succeeded to the title & estates.

16. John de Courtenay married Isabel de Vere, descended from Hugh de Vere, Surety for the Magna Charta.

17. Hugh de Courtenay married Eleanor de Spenser, daughter of Hugh Despenser.

18. Isabel de Courtenay married John, Lord St John.

19. Margaret St John married John Beauchamp of Hacche.

20. Eleanor de Beauchamp married Sir John Blount.

21. Sir Walter Blount married Donna Sancha de Ayala.

22. Constance Blount married John Sutton.

23. John Sutton married Elizabeth de Berkeley.

24. Jane Sutton married Sir Thomas Mainwaring.

25. Cicely Mainwaring married John Cotton.

26. Sir George Cotton, knighted by Henry VIII, married Mary Onley.

27. Richard Cotton married 1st Mary Mainwaring, 2nd ..... Silliard, 3rd Widow Dormer.

28. Frances Cotton married George Abell.

29. Robert Abell married Joanna ..... (29th from Charlemagne).

References:

Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerages, pp 139-140 (Index for Suttons, Blounts).

Americans of Royal Descent, by Browning, Pedigree II & IV.

Edmondson's Baronagium Genealogicum, Vol 4, pp 340 & 343.

Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol 4, p 308.

Harleian Soc Pub, Vol. 29, Visitation of Shropshire, pp 347/8.

Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Vol 3, pp 210-212; Vol 2, p 333.

Nichols Herald & Genealogist, Vol 109-117.

Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, pp 275-78, Call Number: CS71.S643 (contains history & genealogy of Mellcene Thurman Smith family of MA), Privately Published.

Mother of Frances Cotton Abell (Post by: L Salyards, 05 Jul 1999)

"Robert Abell was the pioneer Abell immigrant to the colonies in about 1630. He was son of George Abell & Frances Cotton. Joe Abell in his post dated 02 Mar 1999, raised the question as to the reliability of the book, "The Abell Family in America." It has an error as to who the mother of Frances Cotton was. It states that Frances was daughter of Richard Cotton & his 2nd wife Jane Seyliard. Frances Cotton was born about 1573 and Richard Cotton didn't marry Jane Seyliard until 1578. Therefore, mother of Frances Cotton was Richard's first wife, Mary Mainwaring. There is an extensive discussion of this error by Neil D Thompson, FASG in the lesser known genealogical journal, The Genealogist (Vol 5, No 2; Fall, 1984). However, in the article Thompson also errs in stating Richard Cotton & Jane Seyliard had only 1 child, Joane/Jane. An astute & very knowledgeable family researcher who lives in Kansas City area has found that Richard & Jane had 3 other sons, Richard, Thomas, Robert, who all died around 1597. There was also, perhaps, another daughter, name unknown."

• Reference: Gen Forum

Daughter of Richard Cotton, of Combermere and Mary Mainwaring. It is through Frances that this family connects to royalty through the Mainwaring line.

The information says that she died after her husband, who died in Sept. 1630.

• Robert Abell was born in about 1605[1] in Stapenhill, Derbyshire, England and died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts on 20 June 1663.[2] He was among the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and ...
• Family background
• Robert was the second son of 'George Abell (1561–1630)[7] and Frances Cotton (b. abt. 1573-d. by 1646).[8] On his mother’s side, he was descended from a long line of English, Norman and French aristocrats and royalty.[9]
• His maternal grandfather, “Rt. Hon. Sir George Cotton,” was “Vice-Chamberlain of the Household to the Prince of Wales, (later King Edward VI) . . . a Privy Counsellor . . . [and] Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII.”[10] Henry knighted him before or in 1542.[11]
• Robert’s father, George Abell, at the age of 17 enrolled in Oxford University’s Brasenose College (8 December 1578).[12] By November of 1580, he had become a barrister and a member of the Inner Temple.[13] Before June 1630, he arranged an apprenticeship in London for his son, but Robert decided to try his luck in the New World, instead. This was a move that his father disapproved of, but, nevertheless, financed.
• In his will, dated 8 September 1630, George Abell states (original spelling retained), “I bequeath unto my second sonne Robert Abell onelie a Twentie shilling peece for his childs parte in regard of ye charges I have beene at in placeing him in a good trade in London wch hee hath made noe use of and since in furnishing him for newe England where ......
• Notes
• 1.^ Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Shepard, Jr.; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, p. 66
• 2.^ Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. p.789
• 3.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 11
• 4.^ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins
• 5.^ Banks, Charles Edward. The Winthrop Fleet of 1630. p. 57
• 6.^ Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 4
• 7.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 41
• 8.^ Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Shepard, Jr.; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, p. 66
• 9.^ Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Shepard, Jr.; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700
• 10.^ Mosley, Charles, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, Vol. 1, p. 871
• 11.^ Boyer, Carl. Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 71
• 12.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 41
• 13.^ Cooke, William Henry. Students admitted to the Inner Temple, 1571-1625, p. 35
• 14.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 42
• 15.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p.43
• 16.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, pp. 14-15
• 17.^ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins
• 18.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 43
• 19.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, pp. 38-39
• 20.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, pp. 42-43
• 21.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, p. 43
• 22.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, p. 45
• 23.^ The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, p. 47
• 24.^ Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896, p. 917
• 25.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, p. 48
• 26.^ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins
• 27.^ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins
• 28.^ Luther, Leslie L. and George A. Luther. The Luther genealogy, p. 30
• 29.^ Luther, Leslie L. and George A. Luther. The Luther genealogy, p. 29
• 30.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 47
• 31.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 56
• 32.^ Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, p. 117
• 33.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 50
• 34.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 52
• 35.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, pp. 54-55
• 36.^ Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America, p. 15
• Bibliography
• Abell, Horace A. The Abell family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English ancestry and his descendants, other Abell families and immigrants, Abell families in England. Rutland, VT: Tuttle Pub. Co., 1940.
• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
• Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK: 1991. ISBN 052144764X
• Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing, 1897.
• Banks, Charles Edward. The Winthrop Fleet of 1630: An Account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers and their English Homes, from Original Authorities. 1930. ISBN 0806300205
• Bliss, Leonard. The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts: Comprising a History of the Present Towns of Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Pawtucket, from Their Settlement to the Present Time; Together with Sketches of Attleborough, Cumberland, and a Part of Swansey and Barrington, to the Time that They Were Severally Separated from the Original Town. Boston, MA: Otis, Broaders, & Co., 1836
• Boyer, Carl. Medieval English ancestors of Robert Abell: Who died in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, 20 June 1663: with English ancestral lines of other colonial Americans. C. Boyer, 2001.
• Cooke, William Henry. Students admitted to the Inner Temple, 1571-1625. London: F. Cartwright, 1868.
• Finley, R. Mainwaring. A Short History of the Mainwaring Family. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1890.
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• Luther, Leslie L. and George A. Luther. The Luther genealogy: a history of the descendants of Captain John Luther who arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635. Lakeland, FL: G.A. Luther, 2001.
• Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th Edition, 3 Volumes. Wilmington, DE: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
• Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and Other Contemporaneous Documents. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998. Originally published in 1900. ISBN 0806307749
• Richardson, Douglas, and Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2005. ISBN 0806317590
• Richardson, Douglas, Kimball G. Everingham, and David Faris. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2004. ISBN 0806317507
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• Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Shepard, Jr.; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. ISBN 0806313676
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• External links
• Great Migration Study Project [1]
• Luther Family Association [2]
• Winthrop Society [3]
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America [4]
• The National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons [5]
• Reference: Wikipedia
• Reference: Combermere
• Reference: FamilyPedia

Children

Offspring of George Abell and Frances Cotton (1573-1646)

Name Birth Death Joined with

Mary Abell (1593-) George Abell (1595-) Robert Abell (1605-1663) 1605 Stapenhill, Derbyshire, England 20 June 1663 Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts Joanna Hyde (1610-1672)

Richard Abell (1610-) Dorothy Abell (1612-)

Sources:

1. The Abell Family In America, pg. 37,38 2. Ancestors of American Presidents - (1989) p. 296 3. Burke's American Families, pg. 2529. 4. The Genealogist, vol. 5, pg. 158-171, by Neil D. Thompson, F.A.S.G 5. Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, pg. 266 6. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists by David Faris, p1 7. Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer, 3rd (2001) 8. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Douglas Richardson); 2013; Vol. 1:107 9. AFN: FKK6-Z6

Boston Transcript, Dec. 11, 1936, signed H. A. A. R., who states that it appears from records that Frances, wife of George Abell of Stapenhill and Hemington, was the daughter of Richard Cotton, and quotes will to prove it.

There appears to be confusion over the mother of Frances Cotton. Some think that Jane Seyliard is her mother. The following presents the evidence that Mary Mainwaring is the correct mother: The solution to the problem was presented by Thompson in his "The Genealogist" article. It is basically an argument by elimintation. I am a little fuzzy on the details (its been years), but if I recall correctly, the children of the firstwife were named in the will of her father, and the children of the third wife were named in her own will. Frances is named in neither of these, and thus is presumed to be daughter of the second wife, Mary Mainwaring. It is solid work.

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