EATON/DAVENPORT/CHESHIRE/ENGLAND
HELP, ALL EATONS!
Can anyone tell me to whom John Davenport, friend and partner of THEOPHILUS EATON,went after his education at Magdalen College, Oxford (my own college, so I may be able to check in its aeon-long archive), before he took up his first clerical position?He is said, in the general handbook of New Haven, to have gone to be chaplain to a "north country family" in England as a stop-gap. Since the Davenports ARE a north country family, it is likely that he was a tutor to his own kin, by nepotism, while waitng for a Church appointment.The New Haven aside cannot be a feat of the imagination.It is not a guess.Quite a lot of information conerning the Eatons could turn on this. It may not look important, but, from England, it is!I am posting this on the Davenport GenForum.
Alan Garner.