William Ironmonger, first child of Samuell Iremonger and Bridgett Cordray Iremonger, was born in England and migrated to Virginia in 1651, becoming a landowner in the Virginia Colony.  On December 12, 1663, he purchased 700 acres in Lancaster County upon the head of the eastermost branch of Corrotoman River.  On June 3, 1664, he purchased 350 acres in Gloster County on a branch of the Ware River called Beech Swamp.

Ancestors:  William Ironmonger's ancestry goes back to at least two Kings of England, Edward I and Edward III and to the signers of the Magna Charta.

Descendants:  William Ironmonger's granddaughter Susannah Cooke married Henry Fitzhugh, son of William (The Immigrant) Fitzhugh.

Descent:  William Ironmonger (1629-1695) m. Elizabeth Jones
                 Frances Ironmonger (1654-1695) m. Mordecai Cooke II (1649-1718)
                              See William Fitzhugh

References: (Supplied by Gladys Morris Tate)

Ironmonger and Connections Updated, Iremonger/Ironmonger by Elizabeth Hogg Ironmonger, 1972, p. 29,33.

Visitation, Heraldic - Berkshire, England (London, Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke Printers, 1907/08), by William Henry Ryland, p. 101.

Genealogical Gleanings in England, Vol. 2, by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1901).

Will of William Iremonger, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Administrations, Vol. 2, by C. H. Ridge, Compiler (British Records Society, 1944), pp. 64-66.

Original Will of Samuell Iremonger, 1626, was probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and is now among the records of Somerset House, London, England

Salisbury marriage licenses, published in the English Genealogist; on 23 July 1628 a license was issued for the marriage of Samuell Iremonger of Donnington, Berkshire County, Gentleman, aged 21 and Bridgett Cordray of Chute Wiltshire, age 24.

Samuell Iremonger Will, 1650, reference, Abstracts of Lists of Wills and Administrations from British Probate Court by Lothrop Withington, also Westmoreland County, Virginia Records.

Early Virginia Immigrants, p. 175, by George C. Greer; William and Mary College Quarterly, Series 1, Vol. 5, p. 62; Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 11, pp. 75-76.

Descendants of Mordecai Cooke and Thomas Booth by Dr. William G. Stubbs, 1923.

William and Mary College Quarterly, Series 2, Vol. 8, p. 34

Colonial Families of Southern States of America by Stella Pickett Hardy, p. 165.

The Genealogist XII, p. 22.

Visitations of Wiltshire, 1623, edited by Marshall.