Peyton Complete Line of Descent
716 - 2010


Leofric I Leicester (716 - 757)
Our 35th great grandfather
Lived in Leicestershire, England
200 years before the Saxon dynasty

Alfgar I E ( - 830)
Son of Leofric I

Alfgar Leicester (848 - 870)
Son of Alfgar I

Leofric De Leicester
Son of Alfgar

Ordgar Ealdorman
Son of Leofric

Edulf De Devon
Son of Ordgar

Saxon Dynasty from 924 - 1016

Leofwine Mercia (946 - 1028)
Son of Edulf
Mercia was one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Leofric Earl of Mercia (968 - 1057)
Son of Leofwine
Husband of Lady Godiva. They endowed a
Benedictine Monastery and made other major gifts


Lady Godiva of Coventry

Alfgar Earl Mercia (1002 - 1059)
Son of Leofric Earl

Danish Dynasty from 1016 - 1042

William Malet (1027 - 1071)
Son of Alfgar Earl

Walter DeCaen (1050 - 1086)
Son of William

Plantagenet Dynasty from 1154 - 1399

1 Reginald DePeyton (1100 - ) .
Son of Walter
The first of the Peyton family and the beginning
of 600 years and 20 generations of the
Peyton patronymic.


Peyton Hall

2 John DePeyton (1138 - )
Son of Reginald
Born in Peyton Hall.

3 Nigel DePeyton (1173 - )
Son of John
Born in Peyton Hall.

4 John Peyton (1203 - 1235)
Son of Nigel
Born in Peyton Hall.

5 John DePeyton (1230 - 1287)
Son of John
Born in Peyton Hall.

6 John Peyton (1270 - 1318)
Son of John

7 Robert Peyton (1324 - 1351)
Son of John

8 John De Peyton (1346 - 1394)
Son of Robert

Lancaster Dynasty from 1399 - 1461

9 Sir John De Peyton (1364 - 1404)
Son of 1 John

10 John de Peyton (1392 - 1416)
Son of Sir John

11 Sir Thomas De Peyton (1417 - 1484)
Son of John

York Dynasty from 1461 - 1485

12 Thomas Peyton (1442 - 1484)
Son of Sir Thomas

13 Sir Robert Peyton (1468 - 1517)
Son of Thomas

Tudor Dynasty from 1485 - 1603

14 Sir Robert Peyton (1498 - 1550)
Son of Sir Robert
High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Groom of
Chamber of King Henry VIII

15 Robert Esq Peyton (1523 - 1590)
Son of Sir Robert
Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire.
Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingtonshire.

16 Sir John Peyton Bart (1560 - 1616)
Son of Robert Esq
Sheriff of Cambridgeshire

Stuart Dynasty from 1603 - 1649

17 Sir Edward Peyton Bart (1581 - 1656)
Son of Sir John

18 Thomas Peyton (1616 - 1683)
Son of Sir Edward

19 Major. Robert Peyton (1640 - 1694)
Son of Thomas


Robert and Richard Cromwell 1653 - 1659
House of Stuart Restored 1660

20 Thomas Peyton (1675 - )
Son of Major. Robert

Glorious Revolution 1688

Frances Peyton (1729 - 1809)
Daughter of Thomas

1776 the American colonies declare their independence

Thomas Peyton Gwynn (1762 - 1810)
Son of Frances

Frances Ann Gwynn (1793 - 1821)
Daughter of Thomas Peyton

Ann Elizabeth Giles (1816 - 1883)
Daughter of Frances Ann
Our Great Grandmother

Peyton Gwynn Halyburton (1850 - 1914)
Son of Ann Elizabeth
Our Grandfather

Dorothy Dandridge Halyburton (1893 - 1979)
Daughter of Peyton Gwynn
Our mother

Alan Poe Suits
Son of Dorothy Dandridge