Re: Sheriffs & Eaton beginnings
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Re: Sheriffs & Eaton beginnings
Joe Cochoit 8/01/01
Joe;
The question you raise is too large to answer here and now, but I have collected some material on same, which I have read but not, if you know what I mean, converted to fact. One such document is a pedigree (can't remember source but, possibly either the Fletcher family or Fletcher copying George Morris) that brings madog/Madoc et al down to Eytons beyond Wales as I recall. Again, this is fuzzy and it is something that requires much more of my time, and poerhaps yours, than I have now available to give to it.
You may be right. I can't say. But, for all that he was, the Rev. R. W. Eyton was not perfect. None of them are, I suppose.
It remains up to us to pursue these suggestions as I have as a result of advice to do so because of the assertion that Tudor trevor was a key cog in our ancient machinery. I haven't put that all together either.
So much to do; so little time in which to do it. I now know wht people have children, though. It's because somebody has to answer all the questions we have raised and have not answered.
I won't ask you to prove "a negative," but you might say why you so firmly believe there is no Madog connection. Welsh roots cannot be the answer, because there is more than a trace of information to suggest that the Eatons of Cheshire, at least, had Welsh connections. And if, as Alan garner has said, that Chehire Eatons are Shropshire are Staffprdshire are herefordshire are irish are kentish, etc., then why could not Madog be connected to our Eatons. And, by the way, when you say there is no connection, to whom do you mean? Which Eytons/Eatons?
Rick