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From: John Steele Gordon <>
Subject: Re: Lothrop/Aston/Housere
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 09:21:00 -0400


wrote:
>
> On a tip from another member of this list, I have been looking further into
> the ancestry of Rev. John Lothrop, the Plymouth Colony minister. I have been
> looking through my files, which include a number of articles written by
> Moriarty and, more recently, by Clifford Stott (adding to our cumulative
> knowledge additional information on the family of one of Lothrop's wives,
> Hannah House). I gather that, though much of the research on Lothrop's
> ancestry was done in the 19th century by the untrustworthy Somerby, in this
> case Moriarty concluded that this research largely checked out (except for a
> mistaken identification of Lothrop's mother).
>
> These secondary sources indicate that Lothrop's paternal grandmother was one
> Ellen Aston (d 1572/3, Cherry Burton, Yorkshire), who was purportedly the
> daughter of one Thomas Aston of Fole, Staffordshire. Of late there has been
> some discussion in this forum about a landed Aston family of Staffordshire.
> The Ancestral File, of course, links Thomas Aston to this gentry family, but
> we all know how unreliable that resource is.
>
> In my literature search through PERSI, I have not turned up any recent
> scholarship on this family. My guess is that someone on this list may well
> be familiar with this family.
>
> And while we're at it, the Ancestral File also gives Hannah House some pretty
> fancy genes. Has anyone looked into this family any further?

Brice Clagett, whose "Seven Centuries," the ancestry of his children for
twenty generations, is as much anticipated as it is delayed, is a
descendant of the Reverend John Lathrop and his wife Hannah Howse, as
are a vast number of Americans including myself. He kindly sent me his
MS on the Lothrop ancestry a couple of years ago.

Clagett gives the parents of Hannah Howse as the Reverend John Howse
(living 1590-died 1630), rector of Eastwell, County Kent, and Alice
---------- (living 1590-died 1640). He carries this ancestry no further,
indicating that, at the least, he does not regard the evidence for her
further ancestry as persuasive.

He gives the parents of Rev. John as Thomas Lowthroppe (1536-1606), of
Cherry Burton and Etton, East Riding, Yorkshire, and Maud ----------,
who died 1588. His first wife was Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke, his third Jane
----------.

He gives the paternal grandparents as Robert Lowthroppe, c. 1513-1558,
of Cherry Burton and North Burton, East Riding, Yorkshire, and Ellen
----------, d. 1573. In other words, he does not accept her as being an
Aston.

He gives Robert's father as John Lowthroppe, c. 1480-living 1545, of
Cherry Burton, East Riding, Yorkshire.

That is the extent of the Rev. John Lothrop's ancestry that Clagett
regarded as beyond dispute as of about two years ago.

If Clifford Stott has written an article of more recent vintage,
extending this ancestry, I would be very grateful to get a citation for
it.

John Steele Gordon

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