Anne Overton

Date of birth might be 1613.

The marriage license (records of Bishop of London 27 June 1632) stated that "Robert Overton, gent., of Easington, Holderness Co., Your, bachelor, aged 23, and Anne Gardiner, aged 16, daughter of Jeremy Gardiner of the same, gent., who consents. To marry at Little St. Bartholomew's, London."

a. It is generally believed and stated, although without absolute proof, that Gen. Robert Overton was the father of the Virginia immigrant. He was one of Oliver Cromwell's chief officers, and distinguished himself at the battle of Marston Moor. He accompanied Cromwell to Scotland in 1650, and commanded a brigade of Ironsides at the battle of Dunbar. He was a soldier and scholar and an intimate friend of Milton. He ended his years as a political prisoner in the Tower of London. He married, in 1632, Anne, daughter of Jeremy Gardiner of Stratford Bow, Middlesex, England.

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• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=patchildr...
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=syf&id=I0...
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=syf&id=I0...
• http://www.geneajourney.com/overton.html
• "Broughton, Overton, & Johnson families of colonial South Carolina" (August 11, 2017) < soc.genealogy.medieval >