Name origin: From parish Morton, in Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. From Gaelic mor, big, great; and dun or ton, a hill. The earliest records of the family is in Dauphine, France, where the Comtes and Marquieses Morton de Chabrillon occupied many important positions. In Battle Abbey Roll and Doomesday Book appears the name of Robert, Comte de Mortain, half-brother of William the Conqueror, who became founder of the English family.
b.abt.1168 Moreton Toret, Shropshire, England; parents ukn
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b.abt.1452 of Bawtry, Yorkshire, England; parents ukn
d.aft.1525
m.abt.1475 of Elmsall, Yorkshire, England; Alice Wentworth
b.abt.1455 of Elmsall, Yrokshire, England; d/o Thomas Wentworth
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b.abt.1478 of Bawtry, Yorkshire, England; s/o Nicholas Morton and Alice Wentworth
d.1531 of Bawtry, Yorkshire, England
m.abt.1503 of Lincolnshire, England; Maud Dallison
b.abt.1482; d/o William Dallison
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b.1505 of Bawtry, Blyth, Yorkshire, England; s/o Charles Morton and Maud Dallison
d.1575 Bawtry, Blyth, Yorkshire, England
m.abt.1525 of Cotham, Yorkshire, England; Alice Markham
b.1502 Nottinghamshire, England; d/o John Markham, Sir Knight and Margaret Langford
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b.1521 of Bawtry, Blyth, Yorkshire, England
d.bur.1550 Harworth Chapel, Bawtry, Blyth, Yorkshire, England
m.Mary _____
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b.1553 Bawtry, England; s/o Anthony Morton and Mary ______
m.July 1612 of York, Yorkshire, England; Catherine Bown
b.1555 of Bawtry, England; d/o John Bann or Bown
bur.Bawtry Chapel, Bawtry, England
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b.Aug. 2, 1585 of St. James Bat. H., Somerset, England; s/o George Morton and Catherine Bown
d.1624 of Plymouth, MA
m.July 23, 1612 Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands; Julian or Juliana Carpenter
b.March 7, 1584 Somerset, Wrington, Somerset, England; d/o Alexander Carpenter and Priscilla (Druscilla) Dillen
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From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: GEORGE, merchant, b. Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, 1585, came to Plymouth, Mass., 1623, died following year.
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