Matthew Hyen ELLISTON [35440]

   Another name for Matthew was Cyan.

  General Notes:

Matthew's Will was dated 29 Sep 1621 proved PCC 7 May 1625 (45 Clarke).
He is described as a yeoman.

  Research Notes:

PEDIGREE OF ALLISTON OR ELLISTON OF ESSEX AND KENT.
The family line below is only partially entered into this Alliston/Elliston family on this website.

Mathew Alliston or Elliston of Sible and Castle Hedingham, co, Essex, the Mathew senior of the visitation entry,
married Anna Whighte at Castle Hedingham, Oct. 29th 1570.

Mrs. Anna Alliston was buried at Castle Hedingham in 1597 (PR).
Mathew Alliston's will, dated Sept. 29th 1621, was proved in P.C.C. May 7th 1625 (45 Clarke).
In the will he is designated Yeoman.
To each of his six sons and to his daughter he left a considerable estate, and to each of his grandchildren ten pounds.
To certain " Ministers and Preachers of God's Word " he left twenty shillings each.
He also left to trustees a tenement called " Gallovers," with a hopground adjoining, the yearly profits from which he directed to be laid out every Nov. in shirts and smocks for twelve poor persons of Castle Hedingham.
The children of Mathew Alliston and his wife Anna were William, John, Mathew, Joseph, Elizabeth, Edward, Peter.

1. William Alliston, eldest son, baptized July 6th 1572 (14th of Elizabeth) at Castle Hedingham (P. R.). One of the executors
of his father's will 1621, and one of the supervisors of his brother John's will, 1625. Rector of Sturmer, co. Essex, from 1600 to his death in 1628, (Newcourt's Repertorium).
In the Calendar of State Papers, under date of Sept. 1627, there is a complaint by the " Commissioners for the Loan for the
division of Hinckford in co. Essex" to the Council, against William Aliston parson of Sturmer, for " peremptory and unreverent speeches " in resistencc to the levy.

2. John Alliston, second son. It is the line of this son which is to be traced below.

3. Mathew Alliston, third son, baptized Aug. 5th 1576 (18th of Elizabeth) at Castle Hedingham (P. R.). Married Anne, daughter
of William Harington of Maplested Magna, co. Essex (Heralds Visitation of Essex, 1634).
(In the list of contributors to the payment of the Subsidy in Essex, 29th of Elizabeth (Lansdowne MS. 52, Art. 59, in the British Museum) the name of " Mathew Allyston " occurs under the head of Hedingham Castell)
Mathew one of the supervisors of his fathers will, 1621, and of his brother John's will, 1625. Will, dated Jan. 23rd 1632, and proved in P. C.C. 1637 (42 Goare). In it he is
designated Mathew Alliston" of Hedingham at the Castle, co. Essex, gent, but it is signed Mathew " Elliston." His sons Joseph and Peter nominated executors.
Mentions in his will five sons and two daughters. Besides these he had another son and another daughter who were living in 1621, as appears from the mention of them in his father's will.
The second son, Joseph Elliston, of Tillingham and Dengey, co. Essex, signed the Heralds' Visitation entry of 1634.
This son Joseph was baptized at Castle Hedingham, April 14th 1605 (third of James) (P.E.). He married Mary, daughter of George Binks of Tillingham, by whom he had a son Joseph, four years old in 1634, and two daughters Anne and Mary (Heralds'
Visitation of Essex, 1634).
His will, dated Dec. 21st 1663, was proved in P.C.C. Feb. 1663-4 (14 "Pruce). The executors named in the will having renounced, " administration with the will annexed " was granted to testator's eldest daughter and co-heir, Anne, the wife of Robert Tidderly. His second daughter and co-heir, Mary, as appears from the entry of the Barrington family at the Heralds' Visitation of Essex for 1664,^ was the wife of Thomas Barrington.
Joseph Elliston's son Joseph, mentioned in the Visitation of 1634 as being then four years old, appears to have died before
his father.
Joseph Elliston, in his will, mentions his wife under the name of " Elizabeth." This had been a second wife, sister of Thomas
Cremer, whom he calls his brother-in-law.

4. Joseph Alliston, fourth son of Mathew Alliston, senior. He was of Kingsholme, in Norfolk, clerk. Fellow of Emmanuel
college, Cambridge, 1609, presented to the rectory of South Runcton, co. Norfolk in 1614 (Blomefield's History of Norfolk,
vol. vii. 8vo. p. 402).
Will dated May 21st 1629, and proved in P.C.C. July 19th 1631 (86 St. John) by his relict Susanna,executrix and residuary legatee. His brother Peter appointed overseer. He left two sons, Joseph and Timothy, and three daughters, Anna, Susannah, and Mary.
He gave injunctions to his wife to send his sons, when old enough, to a good "Free School,"^ and afterwards to Emmanuel
college, Cambridge, and to maintain them there for eight years.
Besides portions he left each of his daughters an English Bible.
Refers to the legacies to his children which his father Mathew left to them as well as to all his other grandchildren.
He charged his lands with ten shillings a-year to the poor of the parish of South Runcton, the same amount to the poor of
Castle Hedingham, and the same to the poor of Sible Hedinham.

5. Elizabeth, only daughter, baptized in 1581 at Castle Hedingham (P. R.) ; mentioned in her father's will under the name of
"Elizabeth Elme, my daughter." One of the witnesses of the will was " Wm. Elmye"\emdash Elizabeth's husband, no doubt.

6 Edward Ellistone of Acton, co. Suffolk, clerk, fifth son, baptized in 1584 at Castle Hedingham (P. R.). Mentioned in his father's will 1621. Will dated April 25th 1635, and proved in P. C.C. Oct. 13, 1635 (103 Sadler), by his relict, Grace, executrix and residuary legatee.
He left three sons, viz. John, Henshaw, and Edward, and five daughters, viz. Grace wife of John Hix, Mary wife of John Gilbert, Jane, Priscilla, and Thamar.

7. Peter Elliston, sixth son, baptized in 1587 at Castle Hedingham (P. R). One of the overseers of his father's will, dated 1621,
and of that of his brother the Rev. Joseph Alliston of Kingsholme, dated 1629. One of the executors of his brother Mathew's
will dated 1632. In his own will, dated March 26th 1650, he is designated as of Ridgwell, co. Essex, gent. The will was proved
in the P. C. C. May 25th, 1650 (65 Pembroke) by his eldest son Peter, executor. This Peter himself died in 1654. He was baptized July 27th, 1614, at Castle Hedingham (P. R ). His will, dated April 22nd, was. proved in the P. C. C. June 22nd, 1654
(148 Alehin), by his brother Joseph, executor. In it he mentions his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Sparrow, but no
children.

To recur to John, the second son of Mathew Alliston, senior : He was baptized January 3rd, 1573-4 (15th of Elizabeth), at
Castle Hedinghain (P. R.). Married Alice daughter of . . . . Pilgrim, of co. Essex. (Heralds' Visitation of Essex, 1664, D. 21.)
One of the executors of his father's will, 1621. His own will, dated Oct. 7th 1625, was proved at Braintree, co. Essex, May 2nd 1626, in the Commissary Court of the Bishop of London. In the will, he is designated as of Black Notley, co. Essex, Yeoman.
Mrs. Alice Alliston was named one of the supervisors of her husband's will; and, besides an annuity and thirds of his lands,
had allotted to her part of his house, called " Newhouse" in Gestingthorp.
The children of John Alliston and his wife Alice were : \emdash John, Edward, Joseph, William, Mathew, Peter, Isaac, and Elizabeth.

1. John Elliston of the Grange, Little Coggeshall, co. Essex, gent. In the list of freeholders in the county of Essex, circa 1633 (Harl. MS. 2240), the following entries occur : \emdash "Notley Alba, Witham, Johes Alliston de Coggeshall Parva, gen.;" and
" Coggeshall Parva, Johes Alliston, gen." Mentioned as being present at the institution of Obediah Sedgwick to the vicarage of
Coggeshall 1639. (P. R.). One of the Commissioners appointed in 1650 to take a survey of the livings in Essex. Will dated
Nov. 6th 1652, and proved in P. C. C. Nov. 10th 1658 (599 Wotton), by his brother Edward, one of the executors, leave
being reserved for the other executors, viz. his brothers Peter, Mathew, and Isaac to prove afterwards. In his will he gives his
wife Priscilla a sum of 100/. immediately, and an annuity of 80/. charged on his lands, with the Grange for a residence. The
"Grange" he gave to his brothers Edward and Peter, and "New House" (charged with the annuity to his widow) he gave to his
brothers Mathew and Isaac. His wood, called " Great Monkwood," and all his remaining property, he gave to be equally
divided among his four brothers ; with the exception of small bequests to the parishes of Little Coggeshall, Great Coggeshall,
and Guestingthorpe, and to the poor of the " gathered Church."

2. Edward Elliston of Earl's Colne, co. Essex, gent. Was one of the Commissioners appointed in 1650 to take a survey of
the livings in Essex. Married Mehetabell, or Mabell, third daughter of Thomas Harlakenden of Earl's Colne, and his wife
Dorothy, daughter of John Cheney, of Drayton, co. Bucks. (Morant's Essex, vol. ii. p. 212, 1st column, note s. Heralds' Visitation of Essex, 1634, c. 21, fo. 109, in College of Arms.)
Edward Elliston and his wife Mabel had a daughter, Mehetabell Elliston, who died unmarried April 2nd 1657, aged 30 years.
(M. I. in Earls Colne church.) Will dated April 15th 1663, and proved at Colchester, in the Archdeaconry Court, May 4th
1663, by his widow, the executrix. He named John, eldest son of his brother, the Rev. Peter Elliston of Sandhurst, co. Kent,
deceased, his heir.
To his wife Mabel he left all his personalty absolutely and all his real property in Earl's Colne for her life, on condition that
she gave up " all title of dower unto his real property in Little Coggeshall."

3. Joseph Alliston of Allhallows, London, citizen and draper. Mentioned in his father's will 1625. His nuncupative will, dated
April 1st 1629, was proved in P. C.C. April 4th 1629, by his brother Edward Alliston, one of the executors (32 Ridley), leave
being reserved for the other executor, viz. his brother John, to prove afterwards. In this will he mentions his mother Mrs.
Alice Alliston and his sister Elizabeth, and refers to his brothers as shall be brought up at the University," in allusion to the provision made in his father's will for that purpose.

4. William Elliston of Little Coggeshall. Under age in 1625, the date of his father's will. Died a bachelor. Administration
of his effects granted to his brother Isaac in P. C.C. May 17th 1652.

5. Mathew Elliston, M.A., of Stanford Rivers, co. Essex, clerk. Appointed Sept. 3rd 1646, by an ordinance of the Lords, to be parson of Stanford Rivers. In the report of the Commission appointed in 1650 to take a survey of the livings in Essex, it is stated under the head of Stanford Kivers: " Math. Elliston. By sequestration. An able preacher, of a godly conversation."
Mentioned in his father's will as intended to be brought up at the University, for which provision is made.
Married Mary Champion. Mentioned in his brother John's will, in his brother Peter's, and in his brother Edward's.
At the Heralds' Visitation of Essex in 1664 there is an entry (D. 21, College of Arms), signed by his brother Isaac, in which
Mathew is described as the eldest son, and Isaac himself as second son of John and Alice Elliston. They were then the only
surviving sons of the whole seven. The Rev. Matthew Elliston was in 1662 ejected from the rectory of Stanford Rivers for non-conformity.
In 1672, May 13, the " indulgence of a licence" was granted to him to be " a Presbyterian teacher in his house at the Home Grange," Little Coggeshall, the said house being at the same time licensed "to be a Presbyterian meeting place." Having in 1679 bought from his nephew, John Elliston, eldest son of the Rev. Peter Elliston of Sandhurst, deceased, his share of the Grange property, he sold it in 1682 to Mr. Nehemiah Lyde, the ancestor from whom Mr. C.Ducane, the present proprietor, inherits it (Mr. Ducane's title deeds)
The Rev. Matthew Elliston died in 1693, and was buried at Markshall, near Coggeshall, co. Essex (P. R.). He left a son Matthew, a merchant, whose grandson Wilsby died in 1742 s.p.

6. Peter Ellistoii. It is the line- of this son, which is he traced below.

7. Isaac Ellston of Little Coggeshall, gent, was the seventh and youngest son, but in the Heralds' Visitation of Essex for1664, which he signed (D. 21, College of Arms), he is describedas the second son, that is, surviving son. Mentioned in his
father's will as under age in 1625. Administration of his brother William's effects was granted to him May 17th 1652 (P. C. C.).
He was one of the trustees nominated in his brother Edward's (of Earl's Colne) will, 1663, in accordance with the injunction
in which, as appears from one of the deeds in the possession of Mr. Ducane, he granted, Nov. 4th 1669, his moiety of the " New
House" property to his nephew John, eldest son of his deceased brother the Kev. Peter Elliston of Sandhurst, and heir of his
brother Edward. Isaac Elliston appears to have been married, but had no issue.
He resided chiefly at the Grange, Little Coggeshall, and died in 1678. See the Rev. Bryan Dale's Annals of Coggeshall.

8. Elizabeth Alliston. This is the only daughter mentioned in John Alliston's will, 1625. She was living in 1629, when her brother Joseph dictated his will, but was probably dead in 1652, the date of her brother John's will, as he does not mention her. For the same reason, it is to be presumed that the mother, Mrs. Alice Alliston or Elliston was in 1652 dead also.

To recur to Peter (who appears to have been the sixth) son of John Alliston of Black Notley, and his wife Alice. He was one of the sons for whom provision was made in his father's will to be brought up at the University.
It is to be presumed that he was the Peter Aliston, of Essex, who was matriculated pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, March the 2nd 1629-30, graduated B.A. 1633, andM.A. 1637.
The Rev. Peter Elliston was Rector of Horsmonden co. Kent, from after 1643 to 1650, and of Sandhurst in the same county,
from 1650 to his death in 1660. Buried at Sandhurst April 12th 1660 (P. R.).

In Calamy's Richard Baxter's Life and Times, it is stated, under the head of Horsmonden, that " Mr. Elliston had been
in this place formerly, and could have cut down to the value ol 200L. in timber that was ready to fell there. But he declared it should not be said that Horsmonden had made him rich, and so forbore."
Will, dated April 7th 1660, was proved by his relict Mary, executrix, Xov. 5th 1660, in P. C. C. (209 Nabbs). His
brother Edward Elliston of Colne, his brother Matthew Elliston of Stanford Kivers, his brother Isaac Elliston of Coggshall, in the
co. of Essex, and his brother-in-law Thomas Fuller, of Catsfield, in the co. of Sussex, were named overseers. His wife Mary was daughter of Richard Fuller of Heathfield, co. Sussex, and sister of Thomas Fuller of Catsfield, in the same county. She was buried at West Mailing, co. Kent, Nov. 22nd 1712 (P.R.), aged 94 (M. L), having survived her husband fifty-two years.
The children of the Rev. Peter Elliston and his wife Mary were ; Mary, John, Hanna, Elizabeth (No. 1), Joseph, and
Elizabeth (No. 2).

1. Mary, eldest daughter, was born Dec. 12th, and baptized the 28th 1645, at Horsmonden, co. Kent (P.R.). Mentioned in her father's will 1660.

2. John, eldest son, whose line is to be traced below.

3. Hanna, second daughter, baptized April 20th 1651, at Sandhurst, co. Kent. In one of Mr. Ducane's deeds, this daughter Hanna, it is stated, had a legacy left her by her uncle Isaac.

4. Elizabeth, third daughter, baptized Jan. 21st 1652, and buried Jan. 13th 1653, at Sandhurst (P. R.).

5. Joseph Elliston, second son, born Oct. 8th, and baptized Oct. 15th 1654, at Sandhurst (P. R.). Had lands in Warbleton, co. Sussex, bequeathed to him by his father's will 1660.

6. Elizabeth (No. 2), fourth daughter, born Nov. 5th, and baptized Nov. 14th 1658 at Sandhurst (P. R.).

To recur to John the eldest son. He was born and baptized March the 25th 1647/8, at Horsmonden (P. R.).
He had his fathers lands in Essex bequeathed to him in 1660, and his uncle Edward's in 1663. John Elliston was settled in West Mailing, co. Kent. He married Elizabeth .... The documentary proof that John Elliston of "West Mailing, CO. Kent, was John eldest son of the Rev. Peter Elliston of Sandhurst, is supplied by the deed of release for ever, dated 1692, of the property of New house or Curdhall and Westfield in Little Coggeshall, co. Essex, by John Elliston of West Mailing, gent, and his wife Elizabeth, to Mr. Nehemiah Lyde, the ancestor from whom Mr. Ducane derived the property.
John Elliston was buried at West Malling, January 27th 1707/8 (P. K. and M. L). He died intestate, and his relict Elizabeth administered to his effects. (P. C. C. February 11th 1708.) Mrs. Elizabeth Elliston herself was buried at West Malling, July 6 th 1711.
The children of John Elliston and his wife Elizabeth were, Peter, John, Francis, Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, and Lydia.

1. Peter Elliston of West Mailing, co. Kent, gent. Married in 1717 Katherine daughter and heir of Samuel Kender of St. Mary's Whitechapel, gent, and his wife Ruth. (See Marriage License dated Aug. 9th 1717 at the Vicar General's Office and Samuel Kender's will as below). (Son of Thomas Kender, who in his will, proved in P. C. C. August 21st 1695
(Irby, 133), describes himself as of Old Brentford, co. Middlesex, and citizen of London, and states that he is of great age)
The will of Peter Elliston, dated Feb. 26th 1718-19, was proved by his relict Katherine his executrix and residuary legatee in P. C. C. Jan. 23rd 1719-20 (7 Shaller). She erected the monument in West Mailing church. He died Dec. 10th 1719, and was buried at West Mailing. (M. I ) He had been born in 1678.
His only surviving issue was a posthumous son born April 22nd 1720, and named Peter. (M. 1.)
Mrs, Katherine Elliston nee Kender married, secondly, Mr. William Mason of St. Mary's Whitechapel prior to Oct. 8th 1721, the date of her father's will, in which she is mentioned as the wife of Mr. William Mason aforesaid. From this second marriage are descended the Masons of Beel House, Amersham, Bucks. Her father's will was proved by his relict Ruth, Oct. 24th 1721 in the P. C. C. (Buckingham).
Peter Elliston, posthumous son of Peter Elliston of West Malling and his wife Katharine, married in 1743 or 4 Mary, only daughter of Philip Hedman of Kingston-on-Thames, (M. I. in AVest Mailing Church.) He was of St. Martin's Outwich, Threadneedle Street, London. Had lands in the parishes of Birling and East Mailing, co. Kent bequeathed to him by the will of his uncle John Elliston 1745. His wife Mary is mentioned in John Elliston's will also.
He died Oct. 16th 1746, aged 26, leaving an only child, Peter Hedman Elliston (M. I. West Mailing Church). His will dated Oct. 13th 1746 was proved in the P. C. C. by his relict whom he named executrix, Oct. 17th 1746 (293 Edmunds).
Peter Hedman Elliston the son, who was of Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, London, died in 1814 unmarried, and with him the family of Elliston became extinct in the male line. His will, dated Oct. 15th 1814, was proved in P. C. C. Jan. 18th 1815 (19 Pakenham).

2. John Elliston of Fetter Lane, parish of St. Dunstan-in-theWest, London, gent. Is designated in his brother Peter's will "citizen and mercer." Died May 4th 1746, s. p. aged 62 (Memorial Ring). Buried, in accordance with the directions in his will, at West Mailing, May 13th (P. B. and M. L). Plis will, dated Dec. 7th 1745, was proved May 15th 1746 in P. C. C. (148 Edmunds).

3. Francis Elliston, buried at West Mailing (M.I.).

4. Mary, born about 1677, married " Mr. William Mason of West Malling, co. Kent, surgeon." The marriage allegation in the Faculty Office is dated PAbruary 12th 1699-1700. Had issue, but no descendants are now known to exist.

5. Elizabeth, born about 1681; married Mr. Samuel Lucas of the parish of Saint Mary, St. Edmund's Bury, co. Suffolk. The marriage allegation in the Faculty Office is dated June 28th 1709. Had issue, but no descendants are now known to exist. .

6. Martha. It is the line of this daughter which is to be traced below.

7. Lydia. Married the Rev. Charles Brown, A.M. vicar of West Mailing, co. Kent, and of Cheshunt, co. Herts. There was no issue of this marriage. The Rev. C. B. died May 16th 1748, and was buried at Cheshunt (MI). His will, dated June 3rd 1743, was proved in P. C. C. May 25th 1748, by his relict Lydia, whom he appointed sole executrix. Mrs. Lydia Brown's will was proved in P. C. C. in 1759, by her " faithful servant" Mary Winsley, whom she appointed sole executrix and residuary legatee.

To recur to Martha Elliston. She appears to have been the third daughter and fourth child of John Elliston of West Mailing and his wife Elizabeth. She married Richard Philipps of St. Mildred's Poultry, in the city of London, in 1702, at the age of 19, as stated in her marriage allegation, from which it appears that she was born in 1683.^ She died in 1743 or 1745. The Elliston family having thus been traced down to Martha, the family of Philipps of Chesham, into which she married, now comes under notice:
Pgs 13-23

PEDIGREE OF ALLISTON OR ELLISTON OF ESSEX AND KENT. Pgs 2 - 12
As recorded at the College of Arms. With the addition of Notes and Remarks.
By Thomas Wharton Jones, F.R.S.

PEDIGREE OF ALLISTON OR ELLISTON
Family of Alliston or ELlision of Overhall, in the parish of Guestingthorpe, co. Essex.

Contemporary with the Allistons or Ellistons, whose pedigree has been traced, there was another family of the name in Essex, but of which there is no entry in the Heralds' Visitations of the county.

The family, which was of Overhall in the parish of Guestingthorpe, is however prominently noticed, though with much inaccuracy, in Morant's History of Essex, whilst the family which was entered in the Heralds' Books is scarcely mentioned at all, is confounded with the Overhall family, or is but imperfectly traced under the head of " Family of Alliston." Morant evidently did not know that Alliston and Elliston were the same name, spelt indifferently with an A or an E.
The two families in question may have been originally of the same stock, but I have not discovered any relationship between them subsequently to 1570, except marriages into the same families.
In drawing up the foregoing pedigree of the Ellistons of Tillingham and Coggeshall I came so frequently on the Ellistons of Overhall in Guestingthorpe that I found it necessary to draw out a genealogical sketch of the latter family, in order to avoid confounding it with the other or the other with it. The Overhall family is now extinct in the male line, but is represented by the Earl St. German's, through his grandmother.

John Elliston of Sudbury, Castle Hedingham, and Great Henney, mercer, flourished in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign. He had two sons, William and John, and three daughters.
John the second son, of Overhall, in the parish of Guestingthorpe, is stated by Morant to have died in 1630; I am inclined to believe, however, that it was in 1639 or 1640, as there is at the Record Office an Inquisitio Post Mortem dated 1640, referring evidently to the JohnElliston under notice.
He had a son John (In tho List of Freeholders in the county of Essex, circa 1633 (Harl. MS. 2240, British Museum) and one daughter.

John Elliston, the son, was born about the end of the sixteenth century, and died in 1652. By his second wife, Mrs. Clench, widow, he appears to have had no children. By his first wife (probably one of the Sparrow family) he had three sons, John, Peter, and Oliver, and two daughters.
John, the eldest son, married Winifred, daughter of Robert Barrington. He was nominated his father's executor, but died Aug. 22nd 1652, a few months after his father, without proving the will. Mrs. Winifred Elliston, therefore, as her husband's executrix, proved both his and her father-in-law's will in 1653 (P. C. C.) This circumstance explains the mistake committed by Morant and continued ever since, of representing this John Elliston as having died unmarried, and his wife Winifred, nee Barrington, as having been his father's wife and his own mother !
John Elliston left one son John, and his wife Winifred with child.
This son John died in 1653, and his mother Winifred had a grant of administration to his effects in P. C. C. March 1653-4.

There is no account of the child of which Mrs. Winifred Elliston was pregnant at the time of her husband's death.
Failing his own issue, John left his lands to his brother Peter, and failing him to his brother Oliver. Peter, John's next brother, accordingly succeeded to the Overhall property.
Before proceeding with Peter's family, it may be interesting to mention the following points in the histories of John and Oliver: John Elliston published a translation of the following works of Jacob Bohme: Epistles in 1649, and Signatura Rerum in 1651; and at the time of his death was occupied with the translation of Bohme's Mysterium Magnum. This was completed and published by his kinsman, John Sparrow, in 1654, who winds up his preface to it as follows : - To conclude, let the reader know that more then halfe this book was translated into English by my deare kinsman Mr. John Ellistone, who departed this life at Gestingthorpe in the county of Essex on the 22nd of August 1652, about 1 of the clock in the morning, and so went into the mystery where his soule enjoyeth the fruits of his labours of love, which those shall also doe that walke in the same path, and I among the rest may in my appointed time be found in Christ worthy and capable to come to the innumerable company of angels, though now I 26 deserve to be accounted one of the unworthyest of the children of men.
John Sparrow.

Oliver Elliston, the youngest brother of John just noticed, married the widow of William Sparrow. In his will dated Dec. 27th 1665, and proved in P. C. C. July 14th 1666, he is described as of St. Botolph's Billingsgate, London, gent.
He left his property to his two stepsons, William and John Sparrow, and his step-daughter Mary, Mrs. Fuller. His brother Peter, to whom he left only some five or ten shillings, contested the validity of the will, but without success.

We now recur to Peter, who, on the failure of his brother John's issue in 1653, succeeded to the representation of the family. This Peter Elliston was baptized in 1626, and died in 1672. He left three sons, John, Peter, and Oliver.
Peter the second son died in 1680.
Oliver the third son was of St. Paul's church-yard. He married in 1692 Hester daughter of Matthew Gibbon and his wife Hester, and had a son, Capt. Edward Elliston of South Weald, co. Essex.
John the eldest son of Peter was born in 1659, succeeded to the Overhall property, and died in 1691, leaving three sons, John, Peter, and Oliver, and four daughters all under age (will pr. in P. C. C.).
The sons Peter and Oliver died in 1691.
John the eldest and only surviving son succeeded to the family property, and died in 1738-9 without issue, leaving his cousin, Edward Elliston, his heir (will proved in P. C. C.). This was the Capt. Edward Elliston above mentioned as the son of Oliver Elliston and his wife Hester, nee Gibbon. Capt. Edward Elliston married his cousin Katharine, daughter of Edward Gibbon and his wife Katharine. His will was proved in P. C. C. 1748. He left an only child Katharine, who married Edward Eliot, afterwards created Lord Eliot.

PEDIGREE OF ALLISTON OR ELLISTON OF ESSEX AND KENT. Pgs 24 - 26
As recorded at the College of Arms. With the addition of Notes and Remarks.
By Thomas Wharton Jones, F.R.S.

Other family data:
Ref: William Adams Family Tree Ancestry - 2023

Matthew married Anne WHIGHTE [35441] [MRIN: 12826] on 29 Oct 1570 in St Nicholas Castle Hedingham ESS. (Anne WHIGHTE [35441] was born in 1527 in Epworth LIN and died circa 1597 in Castle Hedingham ESS.)