ANCESTRY OF VERN ELIJAH ROGERS

SUTTON-DUDLEY BRANCH: THOMAS DUDLEY (GEN. 11) TO HARVEY I DE SUTTON (GEN. 28)

 

Gen. 28: Harvey I de Sutton, living 1079. Lord of Sutton-upon-Trent.

 

Gen. 27: Harvey II de Sutton, living 1175. Lord of Sutton-upon-Trent.

 

Gen. 26: Rowland de Sutton; m., 1251, Alice de Lexington.

 

Gen. 25: William de Sutton, b. 1217; m., Matilda.

 

Gen. 24: Robert de Sutton, b. 1240; m., Lucy Bartram. Robert was Lord of Warshop in Nottinghamshire.

 

Gen. 23: Richard de Sutton, b. 1265, d. after 1346; m., Isabel of Schokelach, b. about 1260, d. by 1318.

 

Gen. 22: John I de Sutton, d. after 1337; m., Margaret de Somery, b. 1290, d. . John was Lord of Dudley Castle.

 

Gen. 21: John II de Sutton, b. 1310, 3. 1359; m., Isabel de Cherlton. John was Lord of Dudley.

 

Gen. 20: John III de Sutton, b. 1339, d. 1369 or 1370; m. 1357, Katherine de Stafford, b. 1347 or 1348, d. about 1361. John was Lord of Dudley.

 

Gen. 19: John IV de Sutton, b. 1361, d. 1396; m. after 1392, Joan, d. 1407. John was Baron Sutton of Dudley.

 

Gen. 18: John V de Sutton, b. 1380, d. 1406; m. about 1401, Constance Blount, d. 1432.

 

Gen. 17: John I Dudley, b. 1400, d. 1487; m. 1420/1, Elizabeth de Berkeley, d. 1478. John was Lord Stewart and the 1st Baron Dudley. He brought home the body of Henry V of England when the king died suddenly in a war against France, and John was standard bearer at the king’s funeral. John began the use of the Dudley surname and was 1st Baron Dudley.

 

Gen. 16: Edmund I Dudley, b. 1425, d. 1487; m., Joyce Tiptoft.

 

Gen. 15: Edmund II Dudley, b. 1459, d. 1531; m., Cecily Willoughby. Chamberlain to Queen Mary I of England (Mary Tudor) and 2nd Baron Dudley.

 

Gen. 14; John II Dudley, b. about 1495, d. 1553; m., Cecily Grey, b. 1498, d. 1554.

 

Gen. 13: Henry Dudley, b. about 1517, d. between 1568 and 1570; m., _____ Ashton.

 

Gen. 12: Roger Dudley, b. about 1550, d. 1585 or 1586; m. 1575, Susan Thorne.

 

Gen 11: Thomas Dudley, b. 1576 (Yardley-Hastings, Northamptonshire), d. 1653 (Roxbury, MA); m1. 1603, Dorothy Yorke, d. 1643 (Roxbury, MA). Thomas Dudley landed in Boston in 1630 along with John Winthrop aboard the Arbella, the first ship in the great Puritan migration of the 1630s. Dudley was probably in the audience when Winthrop delivered his famous sermon “A Model for Christian Charity,” where Winthrop told the Puritan migrants that their venture in the New World made them “a city on a hill” that could be seen by everyone. Dudley was the third governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the original overseers of Harvard.

 

Principal Sources

Gen. 23 to Gen. 28: Alard, “Pedigree of the Suttons,” The Sutton-Dudleys of England and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New England (1862).

 

Gen. 18 to Gen. 22: Alard, “Pedigree of the Suttons,” The Sutton-Dudleys of England and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New England (1862); Curtis, "The Mystery of Thomas Dudley's Paternal Ancestors."

 

Gen. 13 to Gen. 17: Curtis, "The Mystery of Thomas Dudley's Paternal Ancestors." Although there is little debate that Thomas Dudley descended from John V de Sutton, the exact line of descent is uncertain. As a result, there is some question about the identities of people constituting Generations 13 through 17. The solution reported here is the one favored by the leading contemporary investigators into the matter.

 

Gen. 11 and Gen. 12: Adlard, The Sutton-Dudleys of England and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New England (1862), p. 97; Curtis, "The Mystery of Thomas Dudley's Paternal Ancestors"; The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633; Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed., 2004), Line 143.