Pettiward family

The Pettiward Family were a landed family prominent in Putney and Great Finborough, Suffolk who control the Pettiward Estate in Earl's Court, London.

In 1630 John Pettiward married Sarah White daughter and heiress of Henry White of Putney, who during the Commonwealth appointed by Parliament as Sheriff of Surrey in 1653.

The Pettiwards appear to have been Royalists, and following the Restoration of the Monarchy of 1660, "Roger Pettiward, Esq. of Putney", was listed as one of the persons qualified to be elected one of the proposed Knights of the Royal Oak, which Order of Chivalry was not proceeded with for political reasons.

John Pettiward (born 1652) of Putney married Honor Davies and left an only daughter as sole heiress, Elizabeth Pettiward (born 1685), who in 1709 married George Mortlock.

Elizabeth Pettiward's son Rev. Roger Mortlock, DD (1712–1780), of Fairfax House, Putney, in 1749 succeeded to the estates of his uncle Walter Pettiward (died 1749), and in accordance with the terms of which bequest, in 1749 he obtained a private Act of Parliament to adopt the surname and arms of Pettiward in lieu of his patronymic. In 1763 Rev. Roger Pettiward gave to the parish of Putney a piece of ground adjoining the road from Wandsworth to Richmond, for the purpose of a cemetery. In 1749 he married Miss Douglas Sandwell. In 1792 Daniel Lysons reported that the former residence of Mr White was occupied by "Mrs Pettiward" (née Douglas Sandwell), the widow of the late Rev. "Roger Pettiward, D.D.", (born Roger Mortlock). She was then in possession of "a portrait of Henry White, Esq., represented in his High Sheriff's dress, and two excellent pictures of the celebrated Lord Falkland, by Cornelius Jansen; and Sir Abraham Dawes, by the same master. Sir Abraham was one of the farmers of the customs, an eminent loyalist, and one of the richest commoners of his time. In the splendor and magnificence of his housekeeping, he vied with the first of the nobility. He lived at Putney in a house which he had built on some land which he purchased of Mr. Roger Gwyn". Rev. Roger Pettiward (died 1780) had by his wife Miss Douglas Sandwell (died 1810) an eldest son and heir Roger Pettiward (1754–1833).

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