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Birth:          ABT 1440 Nutley, Hampshire, England

Notes
from http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/historical/southernnewyork/s_ny_55.htm

OGDEN. This family is of English descent and of great antiquity, it being claimed that 
the name was first written "de Hoghton".  There is unmistakable evidence that families 
of this surname, variously spelled, were located in different part of England as far 
back as the time of William the Conqueror.  One of the earliest forms of the name was 
borne by Peter de Hoton, who in 1150 A. D. founded Erden or Arden Priory, a 
Benedictine nunnery.  John de Hoton, in 1200 A. D., made certain grants to the parish 
of Hoton, and was the father of Sir John de Oketon, Knight of Rowcandura.  Other 
variations in the spelling of the name have been Oketone, Okton, Ocktone, Okedone, 
Okedon, Okeden, Oakden, Okden, and finally Ogden; this last form having first come 
into use about the year 1500 A. D.  the derivation of the name seems to be from the 
Saxon "ock", oak-tree, and "den" or "dean" a wooded valley; the name is thus freely 
rendered "oak dale" or "oak valley", and on all of the escutcheons of the arms-
bearing Ogden families of England, the oak branches or leaves, and acorns, are 
always found.  The arms of this branch of the family are: Sable, on a fesse argent, 
between three acorns, or, a as many oak leaves vert.  The crest also displays the oak 
leaves vert.  The motto is:  Tan que je puis.

          (I) Robert Ogden, the earliest discoverable English ancestor of the American 
family, is first found upon record in the year 1453 when he appears as a witness to a 
land grant in Nutley, Hampshire.  He again appears in 1457 in connection with a 
post-mortem search concerning lands in Nutley belonging to one Joan Ogden, of 
Ellingham, county Southampton, who was presumably his wife.  He had two children:  
Richard, mentioned below; William, married Agnes Hamlyn, and died in 1517.  



Marriage To ----- Joan (ABT 1460 - )
    m.  

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Children by ----- Joan ABT 1460 - 
OKEDEN Ricardus (ABT 1475 - )

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