Langton Lineage
My Father and I, as authors of this site are particularly interested in the Langtons of Newbury in Berkshire. My Father was born in Portsmouth, our ancester Charles Langton having moved to Portsmouth in 1843 to enlist in the Royal Marines. Charles was born in Newbury in 1825, and we have his family traces back to 1669. Beyond that we dont know where these Langtons came from. We have guesses based on our other findings but nothing solid yet.
This page shows what we know, and lists some possible links, though most are fairly tenuous. In order to answer the question of where the Newbury Langtons originated from we will need to find out more, and ideally someone reading this will provide a key piece of information for us. After all, this information isnt likely to be interesting only to us. Newbury became one of the largest consentrations of Langtons come the years of the census taking and many other Langton families share the same origin with us, including a few who have already been in contact with us.
In addition to Portsmouth, we know the Newbury Langtons moved elsewhere including London.
William Langton and Elizabeth Gibbs married in Speen/Newbury in 1679. Click here to see their trees, and descendants.
We dont know where either come from, though we have found a likely candidate for Elizabeth, born in Newbury itself on May 11th 1656, daughter of Samuel GIBBS.
We dont find a Langton born in Newbury as early as this and so we think William Langton probably moved to Newbury, having been born elsewhere.
Back to Elizabeth briefly, there is another record of a Newbury birth around the same time period, a Nathaniel Gibbs, son of Samuel GIBBS, born 18th January 1653/4.
There are other Elizabeth Gibbs born around the same time, outside Newbury, but close by in the Wiltshire/Berkshire area, most likely related, one of these may turn out to be our Elizabeth, but it seems most likely it is the Elizabeth Gibbs born in Newbury itself.
We have recorded many Gibbs births, marriages, deaths from around the Wiltshire/Berkshire area, which can be seen below on this map as well as being listed at the bottom of this page.
If you have any details to add, or other possibilities, we would love to hear from you, whether they confirm our theory or not, indeed ruling out possible candidates due to other marriage or death is also very helpful. So please get in contact if you know more on the Gibbs.
Note: The Gibbs name is sometimes spelt as Gybbs, or Gibbes
Yes. We are open to the fact our William could have moved to Newbury from anywhere, and although we havent found a record of it, he may possibily have been born in Newbury itself.
Looking outside Newbury though, it seems most likely that he moved to the area from relatively close by. We have found multiple Langton families in the Wiltshire/Berkshire area, and the possible families are listed, and linked below.
These Langtons originate from Lincolnshire, with Dr. William Langton, President of Magdalen college, Oxford moving to nearby Radley, Oxfordshire, before his sons George and William moved to Shrivenham, Wiltshire.
George married Alice Holloway, and had children around the right time period, but we dont think he had a son called William.
Georges brother William, married first Anne Stonehouse, and had a son William, who we think died young. He then married Katherine Fisher and had many children, including another William, born about 1645. This William seems like a good candidate.
Robert Langton was vicar of Highworth, 1610-47, it seems he didnt have a son called William but he had other sons early in his life at Highworth, who could have in turn had a son William.
In addition the rev. Robert Langton had two known Brothers, Christopher, who married Elizabeth Plat and had two daughters, and Edward who married Margaret Curtice, though we have no record of them having children. Either of these brothers, could have had a son William.
We have Gibbs in the Sevenhampton, just south of Highworth.
We have an Oliver Langton of Lydiard Tregoze leaving a will in 1657, he had a son who had a family in Purton, with children, but too late to have our William as issue. There may be other Langton relatives in the area though.
An John Lancton was buried in Wootton Bassett in 1585.
An Elizabeth Langton was burried in Wootton Bassett in 1597.
An Aliffe Langton was burried in Wootton Bassett in 1608/9.
An Anne Langton was burried in Wootton Bassett in 1640.
A Thomas Langton and a William Langton were mentioned in a land deed for Wootton Bassett in 1610. Thomas married Anne Early in Wooton Bassett in 1614.
Oliver Langton son of Oliver of Purton area, married Elenor Kealing in Eisley in 1686. Its a bit late, but its close to Latton where we find families of Gibbs, so this is a possible link.
The earliest record we have is of a William Langton holding a position in the town of Calne in 1685, he then has a family in Calne who we know a bit about. This William and his family are too late to be a match, however he may have had ancesters in Calne sharing the same first name.
There is a fairly well recorded Langton family in Maidenhead who held the office of Mayor many times over the years and ran the Langton brewery in Maidenhead. Before their years as Mayor, the Langton ancesters were names Walter and John in the main line. Its possible these Langtons had other children with issue William Langton.
Philladelphia Langton, daugher of Rev. Robery Langton of Highworth (mentioned above) married Thomas Ewre in Wantage on the 6th Oct 1652.
This shows a possible Langton link to Wantage, where we find families of Gibbs in the right time period.
Although least likely, the well known Langton family of Bristol, who were wealthy merchants and Mayors of the city in the seventeenth century, could provide a link. The main line continues past 1679 and eventually dies out, but there are earlier generations who we know little about who may have formed a junior branch, and possibly moved to Newbury.
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