| Excerpt from: History and Genealogy of
Peter Montague of Nansemond and Lancaster Counties, Virginia, and
his descendants, 1621 - 1894 - Compiled and Published by George
William Montague, Published Amherst, Mass., U. S. A.: Press of
Carpenter & Morehouse. 1894 - Also compiler and publisher
of "History and Genealogy of the Montague Family of America,"
1886. Page 30 - (continuation of genealogy)
1628, on the death of Carleton. This was four years after his
resignation of the Eton Fellowship."
He was an excellent scholar, and Selden himself, his
great antagonist, owns him to have been sent a man well skilled in
ancient learning. He died of the ague, Apr. 13, 1641, and was
buried in his own Cathedral at Norwich. He had a son
Richard, and a daughter married to D. Stokes, D. D.
They had a son Richard Stokes, M. D.
III. WILLIAM MONTAGUE, second son of
Robert, and brother of Lawrence, married Margaret,
dau. of John Malthouse of Binfield, Berkshire. Their
children were:
(1.) William Montague of Boveney, M. A.,
and fellow of King's college, Cambridge. He left Eton college
and succeeded to the estate of Bovoney, 1581, and was living in
1634.
(2.) Elizabeth, who married Richard
Burns, or Barns, of Winkfield,* Berkshire.
(3.) Anne, who married first Edward
Smith, second Daniel Ballard.
(4.) George, who married
Susan Norris.
(5.) Peter
IV. PETER MONTAGUE, fifth and youngest son of
William No. III., married Elanor, dau. of William
Allen of Burnham, Bucks.
Their children were:
(1.) William, (who had three sons,
George, William and Robert.)
(2.) Peter Montague,
who went to Virginia in America
(3.) Richard Montague, who went to New
England in America.
(4.) Robert.
(5.) Elizabeth.
(6.) Anne.
(7.) Margaret.
A chart†
of this pedigree accompanies this work. This family in England
are called the Boveney and Dorney Montagues, and their Coat of Arms
is blazened, "argent three fusils in fess gules between three
pellets (or agresses)." A plat representing a correct copy of
these arms, accompanies this work.
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* In the village of Winkfield, six miles southwest of
Windsor in Berkshire, in the Parish church is a tablet with a figure
engraved on brass of an aged man distributing bread to the poor.
In memory of Thomas Montague, Yeoman of the guard, who died
in 1630, aged 92 years. Lysons Magna Brit. Vol. I, p. 438.
† While that portion of the Pedigree from Drogo down to
the first Earl of Salisbury was obtained through the researchers of
the writer, the other portion from William Montague,
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