Anthony Carleton

Anthony Carleton, born about 1522, was the eldest son of John Carleton of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, and Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, and Joyce Welbeck, the daughter of John Welbeck of Oxon Hoath, Kent.

[1] His maternal grandmother, Margaret Culpeper, was the aunt of Henry VIII's fifth wife, Katherine Howard.

[2][3] The inscription on his father's monument states that he had four brothers: George Carleton;[3] William (said to have been a priest); John (who died unmarried at Bologna); and Edward, and four sisters: Anne, who married Rowland Lytton;[4] Katherine, who married Francis Blount, younger brother of James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy;[1] Mabel, who married John Fetch of Haddenham, Buckinghamshire; and Jane, who married Erasmus Gainsford, son of Sir John Gainsford (d.1540) of Crowhurst, Surrey.

In it he appointed his widow, Joyce, as his sole executrix, with Thomas Wilson and Edward Denton as overseers.

The Queen later intervened in the administration of Carleton's estate on behalf of his 'poor widow' in connection with some land in Brightwell Baldwin.