Biography of Thomas Cotton 2nd Baronet 1672-1715
Paternal Family Tree: De Cotton
Around 1666 [his father] Robert Cotton 1st Baronet (age 30) and [his mother] Hester Salusbury (age 29) were married. They had five sons and eleven daughters and over one hundred grandchildren. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
Around 1672 Thomas Cotton 2nd Baronet was born to Robert Cotton 1st Baronet (age 36) and Hester Salusbury (age 35).
In 1677 [his father] Robert Cotton 1st Baronet (age 41) was created 1st Baronet Cotton of Combermere in Cheshire.
On 23 May 1684 [his uncle] John Salusbury 4th Baronet (age 47) died. Baronet Salusbury of Lleweni in Denbighshire extinct. His sister [his mother] Hester Salusbury (age 47) and her husband [his father] Robert Cotton 1st Baronet (age 49) inherited his estates.
Combermere Papers. After 23 Sep 1685. By an act of kindness unusual on the part of James II Sir [his father] Robert (age 50) was allowed the society of one of his family within the Tower He chose his fourth son Thomas (age 13) a boy of eleven years old and beguiled the tedium of captivity by teaching him to read. [his mother] Lady Cotton (age 48) not being allowed to share her husband's imprisonment used to walk every day at a certain hour on Tower Hill till she learnt by an agreed signal hung out from a window that her husband was well. After a short delay Sir Robert was released the charge made against him having been found to be groundless. That there were however letters although perhaps not treasonable from the Electress Sophia (age 54) we learn from Mrs Piozzi who when a child saw some of this correspondence. She was too young to recollect anything about the contents but was afterwards told that they were full of Latin quotations. In accordance with what seems to have been a family mania for the destruction of papers Lord Combermere's father burnt the letters in question
Combermere Papers. 1689. When Sir Thomas Cotton (age 17) reached the age of seventeen his [his father] father (age 53) received a most extraordinary proposal from Admiral Sir George Herbert (age 41) [Note. George a mistake for Arthur?] afterwards Lord Torrington which he seems to have accepted without the slightest misgiving as to its morality. George was uncle and guardian to Philadelphia (age 13) daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Lynch twice Governor and Captain General of Jamaica who had died possessed of large estates in the West Indies a share in which Sir George coveted He therefore agreed to marry his ward though only thirteen years old to young Thomas Cotton on condition that his consent was purchased by a portion of the property. The marriage actually took place and the terms were duly carried out. Eventually Thomas though only a fourth son succeeded through the death of his elder brothers to the title and estates but did not enjoy them long dying in 1715 after only a three years tenure. His widow shortly afterwards married a Mr King on whom she bestowed the whole of her large fortune to the entire exclusion of her nine sons and six daughters. In the parish register of Wrenbury Church [Map] near Combermere the birth of a young King is recorded who soon after was christened there by the name of Cotton a novel compliment to the memory of the lady's first husband. Sir Thomas Lady Cotton survived her second partner for some years and lived at East Hyde a fine place in Hertfordshire where her four magnificent horses were the objects of great attention to her little niece [his granddaughter] Hester Salusbury afterwards Mrs Piozzi. The stately old lady was in the habit of driving about in the neigh bourhood of her country place in a ponderous anti quated coach drawn by four black horses as solemnly grand as herself The animals were the delight of her little niece who in her autobiography thus fondly alludes to them:
At East Hyde I learned to love horses and when my mother hoped I was gaining health by the fresh air I was kicking my heels in a corn bin and learning to drive of the old coachman who like everybody else small and great delighted in taking me for a pupil. Grandmamma kept four great ramping war horses chevaux entiers for her carriage with immense long manes and tails which we buckled and combed and when after long practice I showed her and my mother how two of them poor Colonel and Peacock would lick my hand for a lump of sugar or fine white bread much were they amazed and more when my skill in guiding them round the court yard on the break could no longer be doubted or denied though strictly prohibited for the future.
Before 02 Jan 1695 Thomas Cotton 2nd Baronet (age 23) and Philadelphia Lynch Lady Cotton (age 19) were married. They had nine sons and six daughters.
On 02 Jan 1695 [his son] Robert Salusbury Cotton 3rd Baronet was born to Thomas Cotton 2nd Baronet (age 23) and [his wife] Philadelphia Lynch Lady Cotton (age 19).
Around 1705 [his son] Lynch Salusbury Cotton 4th Baronet was born to Thomas Cotton 2nd Baronet (age 33) and [his wife] Philadelphia Lynch Lady Cotton (age 29).
In 1707 [his daughter] Hester Lynch Cotton was born to Thomas Cotton 2nd Baronet (age 35) and [his wife] Philadelphia Lynch Lady Cotton (age 31).
On 07 Oct 1710 [his mother] Hester Salusbury (age 73) died. She was buried at St Marcella's Church, Denbigh [Map].
Hester Salusbury: In 1637 she was born to Thomas Salusbury 2nd Baronet and Hester Tyrrell Lady Salusbury. Around 1666 Robert Cotton 1st Baronet and she were married. They had five sons and eleven daughters and over one hundred grandchildren. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland. On 23 May 1684 John Salusbury 4th Baronet died. Baronet Salusbury of Lleweni in Denbighshire extinct. His sister Hester Salusbury and her husband Robert Cotton 1st Baronet inherited his estates. Combermere Papers. After 23 Sep 1685. By an act of kindness unusual on the part of James II Sir Robert was allowed the society of one of his family within the Tower He chose his fourth son Thomas a boy of eleven years old and beguiled the tedium of captivity by teaching him to read. Lady Cotton not being allowed to share her husband's imprisonment used to walk every day at a certain hour on Tower Hill till she learnt by an agreed signal hung out from a window that her husband was well. After a short delay Sir Robert was released the charge made against him having been found to be groundless. That there were however letters although perhaps not treasonable from the Electress Sophia we learn from Mrs Piozzi who when a child saw some of this correspondence. She was too young to recollect anything about the contents but was afterwards told that they were full of Latin quotations. In accordance with what seems to have been a family mania for the destruction of papers Lord Combermere's father burnt the letters in question
On 18 Dec 1712 [his father] Robert Cotton 1st Baronet (age 77) died. His son Thomas Cotton 2nd Baronet (age 40) succeeded 2nd Baronet Cotton of Combermere in Cheshire. [his wife] Philadelphia Lynch Lady Cotton (age 37) by marriage Lady Cotton of Combermere in Cheshire.
On 12 Jun 1715 Thomas Cotton 2nd Baronet (age 43) died. His son [his son] Robert Salusbury Cotton 3rd Baronet (age 20) succeeded 3rd Baronet Cotton of Combermere in Cheshire.
On 30 Dec 1758 [his former wife] Philadelphia Lynch Lady Cotton (age 83) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 17 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 16 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 9 Grand Son of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cotton
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Cotton of Combermere 8 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Cecily Mainwaring 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Cotton 9 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: George Cotton 10 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
GrandFather: Thomas Cotton of Combermere Abbey in Cheshire 11 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Father: Robert Cotton 1st Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Calverley
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Calverley
Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh Calverley
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Tattershall of Bulkeley
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Tattershall
Great x 1 Grandfather: George Calverley
GrandMother: Elizabeth Calverley
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Cholmondeley
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh "The Elder" Cholmondeley
Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh "The Younger" Cholmondeley
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Dorman
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ann Dorman
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Cholmondeley
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Holford
Thomas Cotton 2nd Baronet 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Salusbury
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Salusbury
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Salusbury 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Tudor ap Robert Vychan
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katheryn of Berain Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Velville Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Salusbury 1st Baronet 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Stanley 3rd Earl of Derby 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Stanley 4th Earl of Derby 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Howard Countess Derby 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ursula Stanley 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Halsall
GrandFather: Thomas Salusbury 2nd Baronet 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Fulke Myddelton of Llansannan
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Myddelton
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Myddelton of Chirk
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Dryhurst of Denbigh
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Dryhurst
Great x 1 Grandmother: Hester Myddelton
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Olmstead of Ingatestone in Essex
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Olmstead
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane aka Elizabeth Danvers
Mother: Hester Salusbury 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Tyrrell
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Tyrrell of Thornton in Buckinghamshire
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Ingleton
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Tyrrell 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Montagu 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helen Roper
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Tyrrell 1st Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
GrandMother: Hester Tyrrell Lady Salusbury 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England