Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameGeorge Abell
Birthabt 1561, Stapenhill, County Derby, England
Deathbef 13 Sep 1630, England2099
Burial13 Sep 1630, Lockington, County Leicester, England
FatherRobert Abell (-<1588)
Spouses
Birthabt 1573
Deathaft 1630
FatherSir Richard Cotton Esq. (1539-1601)
MotherMary Mainwaring (~1541-<1578)
Marriageabt 1598, Lockington, Co. Leicester, England
ChildrenGeorge
 Robert (~1605-1663)
Notes for George Abell
Ancestors and Descendants of Jonathan Abell, author unknown, date unknown.
FRANCES COTTON was married about 1598 to GEORGE ABELL, Gent., of Hemington in Lockington, co. Leicester, son of Robert Abell, of Stapenhill, co. Derby. He was born at Stapenhill about 1561. He matriculated 8 Dec. 1578 at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1581. GEORGE ABELL, GENT., was buried at Hemington on 13 Sep. 1630. His will, dated 8 Sep. 1630 and proved 7 Feb 1630/1 (P.C.C., 10 St. John), made this bequest: "I bequeath unto my second sonne Robert Abell onlie a Twentie shillings peece for his childs parte in regard of ye charges I have beene at in placeing him in a good trade in Lonon wch hee hath made noe use of and since in furnishing him for newe England where I hope he now is". The will also names....
Notes for Frances (Spouse 1)
The Abell book states that Frances was a daughter of the second marriage.2099
1. FRANCES COTTON, daughter, evidently, by the first marriage, was born about 1573. She was married about 1598 to GEORGE ABELL, Gent., of Hemington in Lockington, co. Leicester, son of Robert Abell, of Stapenhill, co. Derby. He was born at Stapenhill about 1561. He matriculated 8 Dec. 1578 at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1581. GEORGE ABELL, GENT., was buried at Hemington on 13 Sep. 1630. His will, dated 8 Sep. 1630 and proved 7 Feb 1630/1 (P.C.C., 10 St. John), made this bequest: "I bequeath unto my second sonne Robert Abell onlie a Twentie shillings peece for his childs parte in regard of ye charges I have beene at in placeing him in a good trade in Lonon wch hee hath made noe use of and since in furnishing him for newe England where I hope he now is". The will also names.... NEHGR 106:165 (July 1952) (Abell arms: Silver on a saltire engrailed azure nine fleurs-de-lis gold). TG 5:158-171 (1984) (additions to ancestry of Frances Cotton) (evidence that Frances was daughter of first marriage). Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, The Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the North American Colonies before 1701 (5th Edition; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996).
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