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- Unsourced online pedigree states that John Elliston married Sparrow the Elder's younger sister, Elizabeth (d. 1632).
Second wife was Joan, widow of Mr. Clench. She had daughters Ellen and Joan.
Manor of Overhall in Gestingthorpe is mentioned in a document of conveyance (from John Sparrow, Sen., of Gestingthorpe, esq., and others, to John Elliston, sen. of Sible Hedingham, clothier and John Elliston, his son). This document is held in the Suffolk Archives (Ref. HA 517/C15)
--- "The Herald and Genealogist" Vol. 5, 1870, page 425-6:
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 suceeded 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 than half this book was translated into English by my dear kinsman Mr. John Ellistone, who departed this life at Gestingthorpe in the county of Essex on 22nd of August 1652, about 1 of the clock in the morning, and so went into the mystery where his soul enjoyeth the frutis of his labours of love, which those shall also do that walk 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 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 sucess.
We now recur to Peter, who, on the failure of his brother John's issue in 1653, suceeded 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 [sic] without issue, leaving his cousin, Edward Elliston, his heir (will proved in P.C.C.).
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1599 - 1652 (53 years)
