Post by l***@gmail.comDear Group. Another loose end I have is the parentage of Elizabeth Denton wife of John Langston,He was son of John Langston and a Grimsby.
She is listed with dates 1407-1435.
Her parents I have seen as a John Denton Esq, of Hillesden or a Thomas Denton and Jane Webb.
Looking for the correct parentage and anything about the Denton Family.
Loren
I assume the information you're citing is from various online databases. I don't think that it can be determined with any certainty whether the wife of John Langston of Caversfield (d. 1487) was a Denton - or even if her name was Elizabeth.
The dates of 1407 to 1435 apply to John Langston's father John (d. 1435). This John did marry a Grimsby and her name was Elizabeth who died in 1442 leaving a son John aged 17. See pages 10ff in this source, referring to the church in Caversfield:
https://books.google.com/books?id=CMpSAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false
Page 11 in this source does say that John Langston (d. 1487) married "a daughter of John Denton, Esq., of Hillesden". But this must be incorrect, at least as to the mention of Hillesden, because the Denton family didn't even acquire Hillesden until 1547, when it was granted to Thomas Denton, son of Thomas Denton and Jane Webb mentioned earlier in this thread by John Brandon (see Lipscomb's Bucks, 3:17). And there is no mention of a Denton "of Hillesden" earlier in the pedigree that John cites.
The same page in the source above mentions that there is a tomb in the Caversfield church carrying the arms of Langston and Denton. But the history of these particular coats of arms in the the church is rather confused, and it's not clear exactly who they apply to.
For now I don't think a determination can be made as to the wife of John Lanagston (d. 1487).