Richard Acton

Richard Acton

Male 1653 - 1704  (51 years)

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  • Name Richard Acton 
    Born 1653 
    Died 14 Mar 1703/04 
    Buried 21 Mar 1703/04  St. Peter upon Cornhill, London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I75  Eliots of Port Eliot
    Last Modified 18 Feb 2022 

    Father Walter Acton,   b. Abt. 1621,   d. 1665  (Age 44 years) 
    Mother Catherine Cresset 
    Family ID F25  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Wife 1 Anne Llewellyn,   bur. 17 Jan 1697/98, St. Peter's, Cornhill, London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Richard Acton,   c. 21 Feb 1683/84, St. Andrew Undershaft, London Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1706/07  (Age ~ 23 years)
     2. Edward Acton,   c. 16 Jul 1685, St. Andrew Undershaft, London Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 20 Jul 1685, St. Andrew Undershaft, London Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
    +3. Catherine "Esther" Acton,   b. Bef 29 Jan 1687/88,   d. Bef 11 Apr 1722  (Age < 34 years)
     4. Ann Acton
    Last Modified 18 Feb 2022 
    Family ID F21  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Wife 2 Hester Abrahall,   d. 1721 
    Last Modified 18 Feb 2022 
    Family ID F22  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • --- St Peter, Cornhill, burial register reads:
      "1703/4. March 21. Richard Acton, linen draper, in the middle Isle."
      (This will be the same vault where he buried his first wife in 1697/8.)

      --- Listed as a Linen Draper on his first wife's burial record and his own burial record, but as a Vintner in his will.

      --- Extracts from the Last Will of "Richard Acton Citizen and Vintner of London":
      (signed 13 March 1703/4) :
      Wife Hester Acton
      Daughter Ann, wife of Mr Thomas Parrott, linen draper
      £200 pound for Mourning for said Thomas & Ann Parrott and their children
      Son Richard
      Daughter Catherine
      Wife Hester gets the dwelling house at Richmond, Surrey
      Sister Catherine Evance [Evans], wife of Thomas Evance, draper of Bridgnorth
      Nephew Richard Acton, son of my brother Robert Acton, deceased (who is now on a voyage to the East Indies, the sum of £200 to be paid to him if he lives to return to England).
      Doctor Bray of Richmond
      Son-in-law Edward Gibbon of London, Gentleman, another of my executors
      Brother Francis Acton