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April 1680
The sixteenth day of this month died Peter Elliston, apprenticed to Mr. William Browne, and buried the 19th in the North Aisle.
--- "The History and Topography of the County of Essex" by Thomas Wright, 1836, page 537:
In 1608, Overhall was sold to John Sparrow, Esq. of this parish, second son of John Sparrow, of Sible Hedingham, who, in 1622, disposed of it to John Elliston the elder, and John Elliston the younger, his son, clothiers, of Sible Hedingham.
The ancestor of this family, in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was John Elliston, mercer, of Sudbury, who had a capito mansion-house in Castle Hedingham; and an estate in Great Henny, called Nicholls, which he left to his eldest son, William, by will, dated 1586. His second son, John, became the most considerable person of the family. The daughters were, Elizabeth, married to William Kidgell, and Joan and Dorothy.
John Elliston, the son, being an eminent clothier, by persevering industry acquired a captial estate.* On his death, in 1630, he left Anne, married to Thomas, second son of William Soame, of Hundon, in Suffolk; and John, his son and heir, who resided at Overhall; he married Winifred, the daughter of Robert Barrington, Esq. by whom he had Peter, Oliver Elliston, M.D. who married the widow of William Sparrow, and died in London in 1665, and several other children, who died in infancy, or before reaching maturity.
Peter, the eldest surviving son, married Judith, daughter of William Kedington, of Waldingfield, in Suffolk, by whom he had John, Peter, and Oliver. John, the eldest son and heir, had two wives; first, Mary, daughter of Thomas Mortlock, of Sturmere, who died in childbed, and, secondly, Anne, daughter of Robert Wangford, Esq. of Barwick Hall, in Toppesfield, by whom he had John, Oliver, and Peter, of whom the two last died in the year 1691, and four daughters; Anna Bertha, married to William Steel, of London; Judith, to Arthur Brown, merchant; and Frances and Susan. John Elliston, the father, died in 1691; and his son John, the last of the family succeeded.
The estate afterwards became the property of Mr. Thomas Walker, of Church House, in Henney.
* Besides the manor of Overhall, he had that of Hawkswood in Sible Hedingham.
--- "The Tatler; or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq." Vol. 1, 1900, page 31:
John Elliston.
John Elliston, of Overhall, Co. Essex, son of John Elliston, an eminent clothier of Sible Hedingham, Co. Essex, who by persevering industry had accumulated a large estate, and who died June 16, 1630, was at the time of his father's death upwards of thirty years of age. By wife Winifred, daughter of Robert Barrington, Esq., he had John, Peter and Oliver, among whom he divided his estates. Oliver Elliston, a Doctor of Physic, who died in London in December, 1665, left the manor of Hawkwood, Sible Hedingham, to his son-in-law, William Sparrow, Gentleman, attorney-at-law. Overhall had been purchased in 1622 of John Sparrow by John Elliston the elder and John Elliston the younger, clothiers, of Sible Hedingham, the latter being the father of John Elliston of Overhall.
John Elliston, of Overhall, Gestingthorpe, Co. Essex, with his kinsman, John Sparrow, brought out an English version of the works of Jacob Boehme. He died in 1652.
"----- Elliston of Gray's Inn" was among those recommended April 16, 1656, to his Highness for Commissioners for discoveries.
John Elleston was Collector of Customs at Lyme in 1656.
A Lieutenant-Colonel Elleston, or Eliatson, is mentioned in 1659 in the Calendar of State Papers.
--- "The Herald and Genealogist" Vol. 5, edited by John Nichols, 1870, page 426:
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 issude, 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.
--- Memorial Transcription of Elliston Stone at St. Mary the Virgin, Gesstingthorpe, Essex:
Underneath this stone lyeth John Elliston of Overhall, in this Parish, who departed this life the 26 day of June in the year of our Lord 1691, in the two and thirtieth year of his Age. Mary his first wife dyed in Childbed of her first child she and her son lyeth buried in the Parish of Steeple Bumsted in this county and Ann his Second wife who Survived him and by her three sons and four daughters but since dyed his youngest son Oliver, the 29 day of July and after him his second son Peter the 15th of September, both in the same year, all three lyeth buried under this, and just by lyeth buried Peter Elliston the Father of the said John Elliston who departed this life in the year 1672, his issue he left behind him was three Sons, John, Peter and Oliver. Peter his second son departed this life in the year 1680 and lyeth buried in Lumber Street Church in London, there is now living in the Family, only John Elliston, the eldest son of the said John Elliston and Oliver Elliston, the youngest son of the said Peter Elliston, and the four Daughters of John Elliston, which is Anna, Bathca Judeth, Frances, and Susanna, which are now living.
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