Isaac PENINGTON Isaac PENINGTON 
+Isaac PENINGTON
+William PENINGTON proven son of Isaac
Authur PENINGTON Roman Catholic Priest
Abigail PENINGTON
Bridget PENINGTON
Judith PENINGTON
Anne PENINGTON
Daniel PENINGTON
Judith (second one) PENINGTON
Paul PENINGTON
_T PENINGTON ________
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_William PENINGTON __|
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_Robert PENINGTON ___|
| (1555 - 1628) m 1581|
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| |_Alice WOODCOCK _____|
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|--Isaac PENINGTON
| (1587 - 1661)
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| _Isaac SHETTERDON ___|
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|_Judith SHETTERDON __|
m 1581 |
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[170]
John W. Jordan LL.D, "Colonial Families of Philadelphia" Vol. I, New York-Lewis Publishing Co, 1911:
"eldest son of Robert and Judith (Shetterden) Pennington, succeeded to his father's lands and tenements in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was forty years of age at his father's death in 1628, and succeeded him as a London merchant, but having a handsome inheritance from the father, devoted much time to civic affairs and became very active as a politician and alderman. He was High Sheriff of London, 1638, and 1640 was elected to Parliament from the city, and became very conspicuous in the House of Commons, of that date. He was Lord Mayor of London, 1643, and afterwards was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower, and was knighted by the Speaker of the House of Commons, 1649, and made a member of the Council of State. He was one of the commissioners of the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I, but did not sign the warrant for the King's execution. After the Restoration he was committed to the tower in 1660, and his estates confiscated. He was sentenced to death, but before the sentence was carried out died in the tower from ill usage, December 17, 1661. He married (first) February, 1614-5, Abigail, daughter of John Allen, of London, merchant. It is said of her that her desire was 'for the religious welfare, and establishment of the Christian character of her children; and these feelings met a cordial response in the mind of her eldest son.' Sir Isaac married (second) Mary, daughter of Mathew Young, but had no children by her."
There seems to be interesting information in most books pertaining to Charles I and the civil war that occurred in England 1641-1647. These are a few of the excerpts from several history books on the subject.
C.V. Wedgwood, "The King's War" New York":
Page 56- "After nightfall two of the City members, John Venn and Isaac Pennington, urgently asked the Lord Mayor for a guard of the London Trained Bands to help the House of Commons lest the King's soldiers should attack. Gurney was unresponsive, and about midnight he was called out of bed by a messenger from the King forbidding him to send the Trained Bands to help the House of Commons. Charles added another and more ominous word to the Lord Mayor: should any more tumults occur, he authorized the city Trained Bands to fire on the crowd."
Page 153-154- "As the news grew more gloomy Pym's hold on the fickle sympathies of the Londoners weakened. Many of the Royalists in the city had been excluded from the Common Council, but some remained in the government of the City, and many more were merchants of substance who commanded the obedience of apprentices and the support of friends. Isaac Pennington, who had been chosen as Lord Mayor on the removal of the Royalist Sir Richard Gurney, was re-elected in November 1642 for the ensuing year. Extremely rich, with interests in cloth as well as in the East India and Levant (region on the Eastern Mediterranean, including all countries boarding the sea between Greece and Egypt) trades, Pennington generously supported Parliament. He appears to have been generous in little else, for he was not liked, and his austere unprepossessing person was sometimes jeered at in the streets by "wicked, debauched Shagamuffing" of the King's party. (Foot note #21, 'A Complaint to the House of Commons', London, 1642 (T.T., E. 245.5); Pennington belonged to the Fishmongers Company, but his numerous interests have been traced by Mary Frear Keeler, "Members of the Long Parliament," Philadelphia, 1954, p 302.)
Derek Wilson, "The Tower" New York, 1979:
Page 171 - "His place (Lord Mayor Sir Richard Gurney) was taken by Sir Isaac Pennington, a Puritan, a member of the House of Commons, and a man well trusted by parliament. So well trusted, in fact that they appointed him also to be Lieutenant of the Tower. Pennington held the office for three years, during which and after he served the parliamentary and Commonwealth regimes too faithfully for his ultimate benefit. At the Restoration of the monarchy he returned to the Tower, this time as a prisoner, He died there at the end of 1660."
Perez Zagorin, "The Court and the Country," New York 1970:
Page 143- "During the 1640, as the unpopularity of the royal government reached an extreme, signs of a revolutionary situation began to appear in the great city. The spring election to the Short Parliament went strongly against the Court. Besides Craddock and Vassall, who belonged to the group of city oppositionists, two junior alderman, Thomas Soame and Isaac Penington were returned. Neither had taken part in previous manifestations of resistance to the King, but Penington, who became and alderman early in 1639, was a prominent Puritan and proved himself and uncompromising enemy of the royal power. (Foot note: Cf. on Pennington the account in M. Keeler, op. cit., s.v., and V. Pearl, op. cit., 176-84)
Page 146- "the members of the previous spring--Cradock, Vassall, Soame, and Penington-- were again chosen to represent the capital. (Foot note M. Keeler, op. cit., 55; Gardiner, History, IX, 220) All four took their stand in the House of Commons with the Country leaders. A contemporary tract stated that reason for their election:
"...Alderman Soame for his imprisonment in denying ship-money, Vassall for his obstinacy against Customes, Craddock for the Cause of New-England, Alderman Pennington for his known zeale by his keeping a fasting Sabbath through his Shirifalty..." (foot note 'Persecutio undecima,' 57. Penington was sheriff in 1638)
Page 227-" On 11 December it (a petition of reform government) was brought to the House of Commons. Printed, with a roll of fifteen thousand signatures attached, and accompanied by a crowd of fifteen hundred people, it was presented to the House by the city's oppositionist M.P., Alderman Penington. Only a well-organized group of activists could have planned a demonstration of such size."
There is more to the story just need the time to get all the references and put it together. A lot of the seemingly misspelled words are in fact the way they are quoted from the books and manuscripts.
There was a sudden change in style of names in the children of Robert and Judith (Shetterden) Pennington, grocer of London, married in 1581, grandson of Sir William. They gave their son, later Sir Isaac, fishmonger and Lord Mayor of
London, who lived 1587-1661, the earliest clearly Old Testament name I have found other than his uncle Jacob. Two of Sir Isaac's sons Daniel and Isaac the Quaker had Old Testament names. Arthur had a British name, William a Norman
name, Abigail and Judith were named for their mother and paternal grandmother, and the last child was named Bridget. Many lines of Penningtons in the United States continue to have this mixture of Old Testament and Norman names, in
particular Groups 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 13.
The question immediately arises, why the abrupt change in style of names and how many times did it occur? The Old Testament names appear to be associated with the Protestant sects that were proliferating in the mid-1500�s to 1600�s.
Martin Luther of Germany made his break with Roman Catholicism in 1517. Henry VIII began the Church of England (Episcopalianism) in 1531. The movement to Congregationalism began in London in 1565 from a Church of
England base as a part of the Puritan movement which had begun as early as 1539. Presbyterianism was the other part of the Puritan movement. St. Stephens Parish, London, home of Sir Isaac, was a Presbyterian parish. In 1560 the
Geneva or "Breeches Bible" appeared–the first printed bible available to the masses. As a result, biblical names began to become widespread in England, particularly among the Puritans who refused to adhere to the liturgy, ceremonies
and discipline of the established church.
By 1600, the Baptists arose from English Congregationalists under the leadership of John Smith. Baptists of course are noted for their use of Old Testament names, a tendency perhaps inherited from their Puritan ancestry. George Fox
founded the Society of Friends or Quakers in 1647. One of his early supporters was Margaret Fell, wife of Thomas Fell, Vice Chancellor of Leicestershire, who let Fox use their home, Swarthmore Hall near Ulverstone, two miles from
Pennington, as a meeting place. She married George Fox after 1658. The Quakers of course use Old Testament names. Not too surprisingly, some of the local Penningtons became Quakers. One, Joseph of Hawkshead, went to Cecil
County, MD between 1706 and 1710, dying there and leaving a widow and two orphans. Another, William of Sunbreak, came to PA in 1718 with five children and is the ancestor of Group 3. Sir Isaac's son Isaac became a Quaker when
mature and had a son come to PA. While he has been thought to be ancestral to Group 3, so far as we can tell he has no living descendants.
The last major religious sect of concern to Penningtons are the Methodists, which arose from the Church of England under the direction of John Wesley, starting in 1729. While most Methodists are not noted for Old Testament names, but some
of our Methodist lines such as Rev. Ephraim of NC-GA (Group 1) do have such a tradition, probably derived from their Puritan CT-NJ ancestry.
PP 23/2 1991 p24 "Robert M Pennington furnished info from documents Illustrating the history of St Paul's Cathedral: 'Cheapside was pulled down 2 May 1643, and Paul's Cross was destroyed the same year, by the willing hands of Sir Isaac Pennington the Lord Mayor: and the same volume is eloquent about his misdeeds in relation to the Cathedral: there is Isaack Pennington both wise and old, I do not know, but 'tis for truth told, that he is turned poor Sexton of Pauls. Which no body can deny.' He was the subject of another lampoon: 1643. A Bill on St Paul's Church Door. 'This house is to be let, It is both wide, and fair; If you would know the price of it, Pray ask of Mr. Maior. Isaack Pennington.' (Rump Songs.)
[171] [S12] Pennington Research Association (penningtonresearch.org)
[172] [S11] "Penington's 1550-1859"
[169] [S12] Pennington Research Association (penningtonresearch.org)
[15303] [S12] Pennington Research Association (penningtonresearch.org)
[15304] [S69] "Colonial Families of Philadelphia Vol I"
[15316] [S12] Pennington Research Association (penningtonresearch.org)
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_John RYLAND Sr______|
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_John RYLAND JR______|
| (1699 - 1748) |
| | _ BLAVINGTON ________
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| |_Alee (Alice) FOUCH _|
| (1678 - ....) m 1698|
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|--Rebecca Sabina RYLAND
| (1721 - ....)
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|_Rebecca RYLAND? ____|
(.... - 1752) |
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[13487] [S208] "Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland Vol 6"
[13486] [S59] St Stephen's Parish Church Records Cecilton, MD
_John Daniel Jr STONESIFER _+
| (1780 - 1849)
_Daniel STONESIFER ____________|
| (1803 - 1872) |
| |_Elizabeth BAUER ___________
| (1772 - 1846)
_George Thomas STONESIFER _|
| (1845 - 1918) |
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| |_Susanna LIPPY ________________|
| (1809 - 1878) |
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|--Granville H STONESIFER
| (1868 - 1884)
| _Peter STONESIFER __________+
| | (1770 - 1839)
| _Andrew STONESIFER ____________|
| | (1802 - 1892) |
| | |_Elizabeth YINGLING ________+
| | (1775 - 1850)
|_Matilda STONESIFER _______|
(1839 - 1929) |
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|_Margaret Magdalena REINECKER _|
(1806 - 1891) |
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[818] he died at the age of 15, and is buried with his parents.
[819] [S14] "History and Genealogy of the Stonesifer Family of MD and PA"
_Daniel VOSHELL _____+
| (1780 - 1841) m 1809
_John Dulaney VOSHELL ___|
| (1817 - 1895) m 1842 |
| |_Rebecca DELANEY ____
| (.... - 1867) m 1809
_John Wesley VOSHELL _|
| (1850 - 1923) m 1873 |
| | _Newton HUBBARD _____
| | | (1797 - ....) m 1819
| |_Mary Jane Todd HUBBARD _|
| (1822 - 1887) m 1842 |
| |_Mary Jane TODD _____
| (1799 - ....) m 1819
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|--Clarence VOSHELL
| (1877 - 1953)
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| _William F JOHNSON ______|
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|_Margaret JOHNSON ____|
(1853 - 1936) m 1873 |
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|_Margaret STEELE ________|
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[2524]
Clarence ran an agricultural machinery business in Felton, DE in the building which was later occupied by the Ducat Poultry Co [later destroyed by fire]. In the late 1930's he built a cement block building and a road side market about two miles north of Felton. The block building became a Pure Oil Gas Station. He also operated a used farm machinery business on the opposite side of Rte. 13, buying the machinery at farm sales and rebuilding with new parts and repainting them. A few years later, he built a small motel in that location, which was named "Harold's Motel" after his son. He raised English Setter bird dogs for sale. Their home which was built at the same time as the other buildings had all the latest---indoor bathroom and hot and cold running water. A good businessman, he and his wife had accumulated some money, but lost it all in the Depression of 1929-1930 era. He blamed the Republicans for the Depression and was a strong supporter of President Roosevelt until the President Died. Clarence had many talents--could do plumbing, electrical work, paint, work on motors and engines and even made all the cement blocks used in the building.
Died from a heart attack two days after his grandson, Robert J was drafted into the US Army
1880 Census list DE as the birth State age 2.
[2525] [S46] History of the State of Delaware, Volumes 1 & 2, 1899
[2522] [S44] Personal notes Robert J Voshell
[2523] [S62] "Souls in Heaven, Names in Stone Kent County Delaware Cemetery Records"
[15429] [S44] Personal notes Robert J Voshell
[15430] [S65] DE Archives Marriage Card file
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