Green Family Line

Green/de Greene/Boketon

Name origin: The family is of great antiquity being connected with the Grene or Greene of Northamptonshire, Eng. The earliest on record was Alexander de Boketon in 1336 took the name of Att Grene or de la Grene. The Boketon Manor House was known as an estate before the Conquest, situated as a parish in the southern division of Northamptonshire, now known as Broughton. The ancient manor seat, the residence of the Grenes, was at Greene's Norton, formerly norton Davey, and in the Doomesday Book, Nortone, a large village two miles west by north from Towcester.

  • Alexander (1181- )
  • Walter de Boketon (1206- )
  • John de Greene de Boketon (1232- )
  • Thomas de Greene (Boketon) (1260- )
  • Thomas de Greene (1292- )
  • Henry de Greene (1310-1370)
  • Henry de Greene (1352-1399)
  • Richard Green (1500-1561)
  • Henry Green (1600- )

    Alexander

    b.abt.1181; parents ukn

    CHILDREN included:

    1. Walter de Boketon b.abt.1206

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    Walter de Boketon

    b.abt.1206 of Northamptonshire, England; s/o Alexander

    CHILDREN included:

    1. John de Greene de Boketon b.1232

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    John de Greene de Boketon

    b.1232 of Boughton, Northamptonshire, England; s/o Walter de Boketon

    CHILDREN included:

    1. Thomas de Greene (Boketon) b.abt.1260

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    Thomas de Greene (Boketon)

    b.abt.1260 Boughton, Northamptonshire, England; s/o John de Greene de Boketon
    m.Alice Bottisham
    b.abt.1264 d/o Thomas Bottisham

    CHILDREN included:

    1. Thomas de Greene b.1292

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    Thomas de Greene

    b.1292 Boughton, Northampton, England; s/o Thoams de Greene (Boketon) and Alcie Bottisham
    m.Lucy la Zouche
    b.abt.1279 of Harringworth Northamptonshire, England; d/o Edo (Eon) la Zouche and Millicent de Cantilupe (Cauntelo)

    CHILDREN included:

    1. Henry de Greene b.1310

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    Henry de Greene

    b.1310 Green Norton, Northampton, England; s/o Thomas de Greene and Lucy la Zouche
    d.1370 Broughton, Dorset, England
    m.Catherine de Drayton

    CHILDREN included:

    1. Agnes de Greene b.abt.1341 d.aft.Dec. 2, 1391
    2. Thomas de Greene b.1343 d.1391
    3. Richard de Greene b.1345
    4. Nicholas de Greene b.1347
    5. Henry de Greene b.abt.1352
    6. Amadilo de Greene b.abt.1358

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    Henry de Greene

    b.abt.1352 of Green Norton, Northamptonshire, England; s/o Henry de Greene and Catherine de Drayton
    d.Sept. 2, 1399 Green Norton, Northamptonshire, England
    m.Matilda de Mauduit
    b.abt.1354 of Warminister, Wiltshire, England

    CHILDREN included:

    1. Ralph de Greene b.abt.1369 d.1417
    2. John de Greene b.abt.1371
    3. Thomas de Greene b.abt.1373 d.1461
    4. Henry de Greene b.abt.1375 d.1432
    5. Eleanor de Greene b.abt.1377 of Green Norton, Northamptonshire, England m.abt.1419 John FitzWilliam
    6. Elizabeth de Greene b.abt.1379
    7. Mary de Greene b.abt.1381

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    Richard Green

    b.ca 1500 of Scratby, Norfolk, England; parents ukn
    d.1561 Ormesby, Norfolk, England
    m.ca.1518 ukn
    b.abt.1500 prob.Hemsby, Norfolk, England

    CHILDREN included:

    1. Joanna Green b.1532 prob.Hemsby, Norfolk, England d.Sept. 30, 1589 Hemsby, England m.ca.1558 Thomas Moulton
    2. John Green b.Abt.1523 d.Sept. 1589 m.bef.1580 Mary ______
        CHILDREN included:
      • Edward Green b.abt.1580 Ormesby, St.Margaret, Norfolkshire, England

    Richard was a blacksmith.

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    Henry Green

    b.1620 of Yorkshire, England; parents ukn
    d.June 29, 1671 Hampton, Rockingham, NH
    m.abt.1646 Hampton, NH; Mary ______
    b.abt.1632; parents ukn
    d.April 26, 1690 Hampton, NH

    CHILDREN included:

    1. Abraham Green b.abt.1648 d.Feb. 27, 1717/1718
    2. Abigail Greene b.Oct. 6, 1650 d.May 13, 1669
    3. Isaac Greene b.Jane 25, 1652 d.May 12, 1716
    4. Jacob Greene b.1653 d.Nov. 5, 1726
    5. Hannah Green b.abt.1645/or1654 d.March 30, 1718 Rowley, MA m.(1)June 5, 1676 Rowley, MA John Acy/Acye m.(2)abt.1691 John Shepard
    6. Mary Green b.1655/58
    7. Elizabeth Green b.June 11, 1656

    From Directory of Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: HENRY b.Eng., 1620, was at Hampton, N.H., 1644.

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