Edmondson Genealogy

Included only because his death has I think been incorrectly interpreted by many ancestry trees as being the death of John Burton born in 1619.
I believe this reasoning is flawed and that it was selected principally because a death registration in 1651 says that his father was James Burton. They then retroactively applied this also to the selection of his parentage, and decided that John's father was called James.
The original text says: "John the sonne of James Burton of Highgill Hall buryed the 30th of May and died the twenty ninth of May in Anno Doni 1651". Highgill Hall is 22m E Dent (54.2904, -2.02469).
The names of parents are, however, only normally included in death certifcates for young children or spinsters, so it is unlikely that the James who died in 1651 was born in 1619. It is much more likely to be the death of a child, such as John Burton bp 8 Oct 1643 at Dent, father James Burton (of Dukes - don't know where that is) (jpl dent p86). The information that John's father was called James has then been used to select "James" as the father of John Burton, born around 1620. So then you get a double error: both parentage and death date.