General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> /Roland/
According to Wellington Sutton (W2Sutton@@aol.com) in a letter to
www.rootsweb.com dated Wed, 25 Mar, 1998:
"The Suttons and Their Name
Sutton is one of those names that was acquired through the location of
the family in its early history.  It is from the Anglo-Saxon words, sudh,
meaning "south", and tun, mearning "town".  Therefore the name designated
"the family of Southtown."  The families of Sutton and Dudley, whose
histories are inextricably mingled by intermarriage and relationship, are
ancient ones in England, dating before the eleventh century.  In 1251, in
the reign of Henry III, Rowland de Sutton married a daughter of the noted
family of Lexignton.  John de Sutton was Lord of Malpas and Shocklech in
1329.  There is record of many lands being given to John, son of Richard
de Sutton, by Edward III.  Isabella de Sutton, after the death of her
husband, Sir John de Sutton, in 1359, married Sir Richard de Dudley. 
Upon her death the estates of the combined families were inherited by her
grandson, John Sutton.  Among these estates was the famous Dudley Castle."
One source listed his death in 1259.
From "Brown's History of Nottinghamshire: Averham and Kelham Hall"
(http://www.cthulu.demon.co.uk/Browns_notts/Text/averham.htm): "Although
Averham is a small village possessing few inhabitants, and no place of
note except its ancient church, it has associations that must always be
of deep interest to Nottinghamshire people.  Connected with it for many
centuries has been the emininent family of Sutton, and within the walls
of its sacred fane, on the edge of the silvery Trent, many distinguished
men have worshipped, and some at the close of active public careers have
been there consigned to rest...the owner of the manor was Robert le
Sauvage, in the reign of Henry III...he turned to an astute neighbour,
Robert de Lexington ( or Laxton)...Lexington kept it until his death,
which took place on May 27, 150, and being an ecclesiastical person, and
having no children, he left it to his nephew, Robert de Sutton, the son
of his sister Alice, who had married Roland de Sutton.  The Suttons took
their surname from Sutton-on-Trent, which is only a few miles from
Lexington...Sir William Sutton was a courtier in Queen Elizabeth's time,
and his eldest son, Robert, was the owner of Kelham and Averham when the
Civil War broke out...There is a lengthy inscription which mentions that
the house of Sutton had given earls to Warwick and Leicester, and lords
to the Barony of Dudley..."