Individual Details

Marriage

John Claypoole was c. April 13, 1595, the son of Adam Claypoole and Dorothy Wingfield. He was knighted by Oliver Cromwell, a long time friend and associate. John Claypoole married Mary Angell in London on June 8, 1622. Mary was the daughter of William Angell Esq. and Joanne Povey. The Angell family traces to 1500 in Peakirk, Northamptonshire. Sir John Claypoole and Mary had 14 children, of whom Norton was the 13th born in 1640. Their oldest son John, born in 1623, married Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver Cromwell. Her tomb marker may still be seen at Westminster Abbey, the only Cromwell tomb not removed at the time of the restoration. Sir John Claypoole died in 1664, and Mary Angell on April 10th, 1661. She was buried at Northborough, the ancestral home of the Claypoole family, in the county of Northamptonshire.