Richard Beltoft (before 1470-before 1510)

Gathered here is the most comprehensive repository of materials on the life of Richard Beltoft, ninth great grandfather of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap.  Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information about Richard Beltoft:

Published Genealogical Research

• Belknap, Henry Wyckoff. The English Ancestry of Abraham Belknap, Who Settled in Lynn, Mass. 1635 (1914)
• Belknap, Henry Wyckoff. “The English Ancestry of the American Belknaps,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 68 (Jan 1914), pp. 83-92
• Belknap, Henry Wyckoff. “The English Ancestry of the American Belknaps,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 68 (Apr 1914), pp. 190-98
• Belknap, Henry Wyckoff. “Belknap: Additional Records,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 85 (Jul 1931), pp. 265-88

Documents

• Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Proceedings, Richard II to Philip and Mary: Richard BELTOFT v. Thomas WESTWOOD of Mawdlyn [Laver], co. Essex, husband of Margaret, late the wife of John Beltoft.: Lands in Sawbridgeworth, late of the said John. D. VIII, 28.: HERTS, C 1/1194/19-20:  1544-1551
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• Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Proceedings, Richard II to Philip and Mary: Thomas WESTWOOD v. William GYRTON.: Messuage and land in Sawbridgeworth, late of John Beltofte, deceased, whose widow is married to complainant and his granddaughter to defendant.: HERTS, C 1/1276/35-38:  1544-1551
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• Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division: Six Clerks Office and successors: Decree Rolls, Part 5.  Short title: Beltoft v Westwood.  Plaintiffs: Richard Beltoft.  Defendants: Thomas Westwood of Magdalen Laver, Essex.  Subject of decree: House, garden and 2 acres of land in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.  Date of decree: 24 Apr 5 Edw VI.  C 78/8/28:  24 Apr 1551  [ORDER]
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Spouse

• Christian [—]

Children

• John Beltoft (before 1490-1545/1546)
• Laurence Beltoft (about 1495-before 1545)
• Edmund (Edmond) Beltoft (unknown-after 1550)
• Thomas Beltoft (about 1497-unknown)
• [daughter] Beltoft (about 1499-unknown)
• [daughter] Beltoft (about 1501-unknown)

Last update:  23 Jun 2023