Ancestry of ALICE MORTON and George Morton

1.  THOMAS MORTON, Secretary to King Edward III of England. 
	Wife unknown.
	 son:  	
		(2)	ROBERT MORTON

2.  ROBERT MORTON, Sheriff of Nottingham and Derbey, 1362.
	Wife unknown.
	 sons:  	
		(3) i. ROBERT MORTON
		      ii. William Morton ,of St. Andrews, Milburn, Dorset.

3.  ROBERT MORTON, of Morton, Nottingham County.
	Wife unknown.
	 son:	
		(4)	CHARLES MORTON

4.  CHARLES MORTON, of Morton.
	Wife unknown.
	 son:	
		(5)	ROBERT MORTON

5.  ROBERT MORTON, of Morton.
	Married CICELY KNYVETON,
		daughter of NICHOLAS KNYVETON of Mircaston.
	 son:	
		(6)	ROBERT MORTON

6.  ROBERT MORTON.
	Married ALES (ALICE) BOZON, 
		daughter of Sir RICHARD BOZON.
	 children:	
		(7)	i. NICHOLAS MORTON
			ii - vii. Six other sons, who died without issue.
			viii. Elizabeth Morton, married Laxton
			ix. Anne Morton, married William Lacy
			x. Alice Morton, married Richard Fishborne

7.  NICHOLAS MORTON, of Morton.
	married ELIZABETH WENTWORTH
	daughter of THOMAS WENTWORTH, of Elmsall, York County.
	 children: 
			i. Robert Morton
		(8)	ii. CHARLES MORTON

8. CHARLES MORTON, of Bawtry.
	married Maud Dalison,
		daughter of William Dalison
			of  Lincolnshire. His will is dated 1531.
	 children:
			i. Charles Morton, died young.
		(9)	ii. ROBERT MORTON.
			iii. Thomas Morton.
			iv. Nicholas Morton, Priest and Papal Emissary.
				B.A. Cambridge, 1542, M.A. 1545, D.D.
				in Rome before 1586.
			v. Anthony Morton.
			vi. Charles Morton
				m1. Christian Hastings
					dau. of Byron Hastings
				m2. 	Frances Frobischer.
			vii. Gervase Morton
			viii. Francis Morton
			ix. Elizabeth Morton.
				m. Thomas Cranmer
					of Aslockton, Nottinghamshire.
			x. Mary Morton, m. John Paget.
			xi. Joan Morton, no issue.
			xii. Frances Morton, no issue.
			xiii. Dorothy Morton, 
				m. John Stagg.
			xiv. Ann Morton, 
				m. Thomas Compton 
					of Willingham, Lincolnshire.
			xv. Jane Morton, 
				m. John Norton,
					2nd son of Richard Norton
						of  Norton Conyers.
			xvi. Isabel Morton, 
				m. Richard Halsworth

9.  ROBERT MORTON, Esquire, of Bawtry, will dated 1575.
	m1. ALICE MARKHAM
		daughter of Sir JOHN MARKHAM of Colham, Nottinghamshire.

		Children by m1.: 

			i. John Morton, died young.
		(10)	ii. Anthony Morton, Esq., bur. in Haworth Chapel.
			iii. Ann Morton, died young.
		(11)	iv. ALICE MORTON,
				m. WILLIAM BRADFORD (c1515-1595)

	m2. Anne Norton
		daughter of John Norton of Norton Conyers
		 and widow of Robert Plumpton. 

		children by m2.:
			v. Robert Morton,
				executed as a traitor 
					London Aug., 15, 1588.
			vi. Sampson Morton, went to Rome.
			vii. Daniel Morton, went to Rome.
			viii. Elizabeth Morton, died young.

10. Anthony Morton, Esquire, of Bawtry, 
	buried in the Chapel at Bawtry. 
	Wife unknown. Children:

 		(12)	i. George Morton
			ii. Robert Morton

11. ALICE MORTON,
	m. WILLIAM BRADFORD (c1515-1595), 
		father of William Bradford (1557-1591) of Austerfield
		who married Alice Hansen (1562-1597), and had
		William Bradford (1589/90-1657) who became Gov.
		of the Plymouth Colony.

12.  George Morton,
	m. Catherine Boun,
		daughter of John Boun, Esquire, 
			of Nottinghamshire (buried in Chapel at Bawtry).
	Children:

		(13)	i. George Morton
				of Leyden and the Plymouth Colony

13. George Morton (1585-1624), Separatist who joined the Plymouth Colony. Sailed on the Speedwell, a companion to the Mayflower which turned back. He married Juliana Carpenter on July 23 - Aug. 2, 1612 in Leyden, Holland. She was described as being from Bath, England. They came to Plymouth on the Anne, in 1623 with Juliana's sister Alice (Carpenter) Southworth, the widow of Sir Edward Southworth. Alice was coming to marry Gov. William Bradford (1589-1657) of the Plymouth Colony.

References:

• English Origins of New England Families, 2nd Ser. Vol. 1. p. 243 Ancestry of the Bradfords of Austerfield, Co. York by William Bradford Browne. Ed. by Gary Boyd Roberts, pub. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985.
• The Mayflower Web Pages
• Descendants of Governor William Bradford, by Ruth Gardiner Hall, under auspices of the Bradford Family Compact.
• Bradford Genealogy by Faith Bradford
• A Line of Bradfords 1460-1988 by Bradford Stone