Re: Sheriffs & Eaton beginnings
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Re: Sheriffs & Eaton beginnings
david eaton 7/26/01
David:
Thanks.
Also see me response to Don. May I, through that, pose the same question to you and others here?
I think that the positioning on the arms changes our thinking more than just a little bit and, perhaps, should send us on vigorous searches for Pantulf/Pantulph/Pantoun daughters; as well as to strengthen our resolve to find Warin/Warrenne/Warine and FitzAlan answers.
A relationship to Pantulf is clear and positive. However, what that relationship is, we do not know.
What amazes me is that all those Victorian experts did not resulve these questions.
I have very poor copies of Morris's manucript pedigrees for Eytons/Eatons in Shropshire. Unfortumately, the footnotes are so minute, and the copies (from microfilm) so poor, that I cannot "translate" references to arms.
If someone has Burke, then maybe they can do a study of the Pantulf listing. Most of the descriptions say where a particular branch of the arms bearing family lived and, often, when arms are labelled, so as to differentiate people and branches, we find clues to other family relations; i.e. an impaling of the Eyton fret with the pantulf ermine. It would be great to know who the Pantulfs are said to have "impaled" (grin) and where they did their impaling. It could help.
When in England, I had only time enough to get the Burke's information for Eyton and Eaton. My library here does not have any of Burke's material.
Rick