| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Thirteenth Generation7956. Sir George COTTON was born in 1505 in Wem, Salop (Shropshire), England. He died on 25 March 1545 at the age of 40 in Combermere, Salop (Shropshire), England. He served as Sheriff of Denbighshire and was esquire to the body of King Henry VIII. He was knighted by the latter in or before 1542. He was given a new grant to Combermere by Henry VIII 3 February 1541/2, obtaining the site and demesne of the Abbey and two-thirds of Newhall Manor. (Carl Boyd, 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, 2001, pp. 70-71.) Mary ONLEY and Sir George COTTON were married before 11 November 1537. 7957. Mary ONLEY was born about 1510. She died on 14 March 1560 at the age of 50 in Combermere, Salop (Shropshire), England. Children were:
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