It gets worse. I think John Overton, Esq. parents are conflated. I’m disconnecting from William (or Henry) Overton
Until someone makes sense of it.
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Research Notes
Unsourced profile, notes on looking for sources .. he is said to be a bishop but no bishop of that name found except for the existing Wikitree profile for a Bishop William Overton who is "said to have been of the same family as Robert Overton the major-general".[1] No evidence is presented by D.N.B. for that, and the details are totally different to this profile - Born in London about 1525, first wife Margaret Barlow, second wife Mary Bradstock, buried at Eccleshall 1609.
Birth and death dates - Easington parish registers do not survive before 1654 (1720 online) with some patchy bishop's transcripts from 1600, so no register entries will be available. No William Overton is mentioned in York will indexes around this time, but there is a Henry Overton of Easington, yeoman, who died in 1595, leaving a will dated 14 April 1595 and proved 23 June 1595 at York, vol 26 folio 134.[2] The FamilySearch tree and many Ancestry trees have mixed Henry with William and called him Rev or Bishop William Henry Overton.
The son shown here, John Overton, probably does not belong to either William or Henry. He left a will 20 July 1648 with a codicil 1650, mentioning his brothers William and Christopher and "my loving uncle Mr Gabriell Catherall".[3] There is a marriage of Christopher Overton and Ellen Catherall in 1574 at Hollym, about 7 miles from Easington, and he seems to be the most likely father on present information. Detailed notes by William L Deyo in his book The family and ancestry of William Dabney have Christopher as the father but Miss Wright as the mother, and state that Gabriel was her half brother, son of her mother's second husband John Catherall. He does not mention the marriage to Ellen Catherall.[4] Is Ellen in fact "Miss Wright" who had taken her stepfather's name? "Mrs Ellen Overton" was buried at Easington 21 October 1600[5] so further research needed to place her.
