The BARTLETT Family

The earliest recorded member of the BARTLETT family is Adam BARTTELOTT, who came to England with William the Conqueror and seated himself at Ferring, county of Sussex. He was reported to be of an old Norman English family. He was the heir to the estate of Stopham and in the family pedigree is stated to have been buried in 1100 at Stopham, Sussex, England where he had grants of land consisting of thousands of acres. The ancestral mansion was built in 1309. Near it stands an old Norman church. On the ground floor are marble slabs with inlaid figures of brass showing a regular succession of BARTTELOTT--inscriptions, names and dates--from John who died in 1428, down to Colonel George Bartlett, who died 28 Nov 1872 at age eighty-four years. While many prominent families of old England have forever disappeared from history, the BARTTELOTT family has steadily held possession of the original grant (with large additions) for 800 years--from Adam BARTTELOTT, the progenitor of the family, down to the present representative-and the accurate pedigree of the line has been kept from 1069 down to the time.

The ancient coat of arms is described: sable three sinister falconer's gloves argent arranged triangularly, two above and one below pendant bands around the wrist and tassels. At about the end of the fifteenth century, the castle was granted as the crest of John Bartlett, and in the sixteenth century, the swan crest was granted in commemoration of the right granted the family by William the Conqueror to keep swans in the river Arun.

Robert Bartlett (generation number 15, below), the first of the names in America, was born in 1607 in Sussex, England, and was no doubt a descendant of William, the eldest son and heir of Stopham. He came over in the ship Anne, the second after the Mayflower, in 1623 when he was twenty-seven years old. His name is inscribed with one hundred others on a shaft at Hartford Center Church, the oldest in the state of Massachusetts, as one of the first settlers of Hartford. He married Mary, daughter of Richard WARREN, one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. His son Benjamin was born in 1656 and married Sarah, daughter of Love BREWSTER and Sarah COLLIER. Love BREWSTER was a son of Elder William BREWSTER, one of the Pilgrim Fathers who came over on the Mayflower.

Several other BARTLETTS came to America at about the same time, and can trace their ancestry to one of the descendants of Adam BARTTELOTT.

BARTLETT/BARTTELOTT: Deborah ²⁰, Benjamin ¹⁹, Benjamin ¹⁸, Robert ¹⁷, Richard ¹⁶, Robert ¹⁵, William ¹⁴, Richard ¹³, John ¹², Richard ¹¹, John ¹⁰, John ⁹, Adam ⁸, John ⁷, Thomas de Stopham ⁶, Adam de Stopham ⁵, Richard de Stopham ⁴, John de Stopham ³, William de Stopham ², Adam ¹

Other lines that join with this one can be seen on the STEVENS page.

Last updated on 11 Feb 2002 by Sandie Huffstutler