Denton Name Study
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The Denton Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Denton name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Denton name.
As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Dentons), by time period (18th Century Dentons), or by topic (Denton DNA, Denton Occupations, Denton Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.
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To join the Denton Name Study, first start , by checking this page out and its links , feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment and then dive right in!
If you would like to participate and specific Denton line or geographical area , also would like to add if you just would like to have some links or info added on this page without joining feel free to contact the coordinator Janine Leigh Isleman for assistance.
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Denton Family Information
My name is Janine Leigh Isleman , the former coordinator had done some research and put his findings here so I decided to leave it I omitted his location of his branch , my ancestor is also Rev. Richard Denton but thru his 3rd great grandson Jeremiah Denton who settled in Quebeck, White, Tennessee, United States , which goes down to my grandmother, Lillian Pearl Denton , my mother's mother . I also like to add this ONS is not limited to Rev Richard Denton's line , I would like to be able to expand and hopefully connect or see if they all are connected so feel free to contact me
In tracing the history of Denton in England I found a very early reference to a Denton Hall near Newcastle on Tyne. The hall was built around a burial ground of the Britons, left intact and bordered by a Roman Wall. The Dentons were the earliest known owners of the Hall in the 10th Century, later sold to the Woddingtons.
The next reference I can find is a Denton Hall in Nether Denton, Cumbria, due west from Newcastle upon Tyne. The reference said the family held a fortified manor there before the conquest. They later traded this Denton Hall for Warnell Hall. During the Reformation many Protestant Dentons from this family left for the New World, conversely the family that remained eventually joined the Royalists during the Civil War. During the war the Dentons held the fortified manor house at Hillesden, which became a focal point in the fighting. Hillesden was lost in 1644 when Parliamentary forces sieged the manor with 2000 men. The house was destroyed and family beggared, with Sir Alexander Denton imprisoned in the tower of London until his death in 1655. Thus ended the short lived Baronet.
The Denton's that left in the 1630's have begot countless branches here in the New World. A great many of American Dentons can likely trace their line back to Rev. Richard Denton who arrived in the New World with a very large family in the 1630's.
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Mark Denton