The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27

was Baldwin de Carleton, who was seated
 at the hamlet of Carleton in 1066 He had
 a son. Jeffrey, and from that time on the 1 family genealogy is recorded Jeffrey had
 a son, Odnord. whose son, Henry was
 the father of Gilbert, who married daughter of the house of Fitzwilliam. Gil- l berts son, William, married Helena de l Stornton, and they were the parents of :, Adam de Carleton. who married Sarah, daughter of Adam de Newton.
 From this Adam de Carleton was de- scended the famous Guy Carleton, who was born at Strabane, Ireland, in 1724, and
 who succeeded Sir Henry Clinton as com
 mander-in-chief of the British army in 1 America at the close of the revolutionary l War. Adam had a son. Adam, whose wife's name was Sbelia, and he was the progenitor of the Oxfordshire family of l Carleton. Their son, Jean de Carleton, ] had Henry de Carleton, whose wife was i Alice, and they had son, Thomas who 1 had Sir Walter de Carleton, whose son. Thomas, was father of John Carleton of Sutton and Walton-up -upon-Thames, who
 died in 145S By his wife Anna Skip
 worth of Huntington, he had a son, John | of Walton upon-Thames and Kingston, who married Alice, daughter of Gerard 1 Donnel. They had three sons, one of
 whom was dean of Petersborough. An other was John of Walton-upon- | Wolbeck and later Margaret Culpepper He had five sons, one of whom was the father of Sir Dudley Carleton, and another of whom was Edward Carleton. gentle man. lord of the manor of East Cloud on Surrey.
 l Sir Dudley Carleton, born in OXfordshire in 15l3, was firm supporter of the Stu
 arts. and was created Viscount Dorches-
 ter by Charles l, and appointed one of his chief secretaries of state.
 Edward Carleton, lord of the manor of
 East Cloud-on-S Surrey and nephew of Wis count Dorchester, was married in 1562 to Mary daughter and co-heir of Geoerge Bigley of Gotham, Surrey. and had eight sons One of these eight sons was Bras mus Carleton. citizen and mercer of St Bartholomew London. He married
 Iilizahe tn, and had Edward, who was born in England. This Edward is the progenitor of the family in America. l To M. Pierce Atwood, who asks for
 an account of the Atwood family in Eng
 land before coming to America, and for
 a description of the coat of arms of the 1 family:
 ! From the time they were first heard of l in England the Atwoods were of good
 deal of prominence. In 1913 three brothers | Peter. John and Godfrey. were tenants of
 the Abbey of Chertsey. They leased an estate at the wood place stll in ex- i istence, and now called Wood Place, and l from this place they took their surname
 Atte Wode. But for 300 years the name
 appears in a great many forms, as often Wood as Atwood, and 1t is not until the i time of the immigration of the family to 1 this country that il is finally fixed it is
 now spelled. One of the family who was | sergeant-at-arms to Edward III is ferred to in several ways, as Ricardus or
 Richard del Wode. Atte Wode and of the a At Atwood. Attwooodd, At Wood. a Wood, de Wood de Wude and Atwood
 l In 1457 Peter Atte Wode obtained a 1i- cense from the bishop for private chapel
 at Wood Place. Fifty years before that
 the family had succeeded to Sanderstead | Court, manor house not far from Wood
 Place. One of the earliest records now
 in the church at Sanderstead village reads: | Here lyeth Nycholas Wood, the third son
 of John Atwood of Sanderstead Corte who served Queene Elizabeth sens the second yeare of her rayne, and deceased the Ii
 day of May, 1886, leaving behind him wNfe and children-7 sons, Harmon John, | Nicholas. Thomas, James, John Richard, 1 Alls and Susan.
 1 Nicholas eldest son, Harmon spelled
 the name Atwood, and since that time it | has always been so spelled. One of the brothers, John, the first Immigrant
 to America, and the other Is supposed to | nave been the IdtneI or the permanent
 settler here. About 1635 one John came
 to Plymouth to join the colony of Pill
 grims here He died without children nine
 years later, and in his will he gave all
 his possessions to his wife, and said: My brothers are as able as 1 am and more
 so, and their children he many
 The arms of the family. which are
 carved over the door of the old manor
 house al Sanderstead, are: Gules a lion
 rampant argent between three acorns or The crest is: An arm erect holding a battle aX,