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V1 Richard Titterton of Staffordshire b. 1564

 

The Titterington tree really starts in England in approximately 1194.  The purpose of this website is to focus on the research of the Titterington name in Northern Ireland, and so our starting point begins with the more modern versions of the Titterington name which emanated from Staffordshire.

 

Four brothers came into Staffordshire as Tetryngton. The name started to change to Titterton, Titterington and Teryngton and this inevitably causes difficulties for researchers – there are many other versions too that can be found in the Irish research.

 

So, our records begin with Richard who was baptised as a Titterton in 1564 in Staffordshire.  He was married to Gennet and they had six children. 

 

Their son James is the first known Titterington in Ireland and he was probably a Captain in the Army of King Charles.  From the “Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England In the Reign of Charles I” relating to the “The History of the Rebellion” it states “Titrington  - He Chose for his Quarter, and within a few days drew to him a Troop of new raised Horse and a regiment of foot, raised by his old friends in Cornwall”

 

There is more information about James to be found in the Depositions.

 

Richard’s great-grandson, John Titterington was born about 1640 and it is from him that our Irish research really begins - Richards’s great-great-grandsons, John and James.  There is an index record for the death of John Titterington who died in the Royal Hospital, near Dublin in 1706.

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V2 John Titterington b.c. 1640

 

John is recorded here as born about 1640.  This is a speculative date – based on about 19 years after the birth of his father and being 20 years prior to the birth of his first child, who was English. 

 

His will of 1706 names his widow as Catherine Upington, but it seems that she was probably not the mother of his children.  She was in fact his third  wife.  His first wife whose name is unknown, lived in England.  However, his second wife, Hester Lewis as well as Catherine, he married in Cork.

 

His sons were John and James and on this website, we deal with the issue from these two ancestors separately.   Our research suggests that the Titteringtons who originated in Northern Ireland are descended from either John or James

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