Eleanor Whitney ^{1 2 3 4}

   Other names for Eleanor were Elen Whitney, Elin Whitney and Ellen Whitney.

  Research Notes:

First wife of John Hên Puleston.

The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd, Vol. II, p. 138, lists as wives of John Puleston "of Havod y Wern and Bers" (from Cae Cyriog M.S.; Lewys Dwnn, vol ii):
1 Elen, d. of Robert Whitney ab Sir Robert Whitney, Knt.
2 Alice, d. of Hugh Lewis of Persaddfed in Tir Mon ab Llywelyn ab Hwlcyn.

Mother probably Constance Touchet, but also sometimes listed as daughter of his first wife, Alice Vaughan, according to Robert L. Ward and the Whitney Research Group 2006. Has birthplace as Whitney, Herefordshire and has husband as Thomas Vaughan of Bredwardine.

According to www.whitneygen.org/archives/biography/rmnixon.html, President Richard Milhous Nixon was a descendant of John Puleston (1485-1523) and Eleanor Whitney (1467-).

From Reifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry, p. 58:

"The wife of John Puleston was descended from Edward III, King of England."

Eleanor married John Hên Puleston of Hafod-y-Wern, Constable of Caernarfon Castle, son of John Puleston of Bers and Hafod y Wern and Alswn Fychan ferch Hywel ap Ieuan of Havod y Wern, Bersham, Co. Denbigh. (John Hên Puleston of Hafod-y-Wern, Constable of Caernarfon Castle was born about 1462 in Hafod-y-Wern, Berse (Bersham), (Wrexham, Denbighshire), Wales and died about 1544.)