Tottenham is in Middlesex.
Ermine Street 2a London to Braughing leaves the city of London at Bishopsgate Gate [Map] and thereafter travelled north through Shoreditch [Map], Stoke Newington [Map], Stamford Hill [Map], Tottenham [Map], Edmonton [Map], Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire [Map], Broxbourne, Hertfordshire [Map], Puckeridge, Hertfordshire [Map] to Braughing, Hertfordshire [Map].
In 1671 John Dethick died at his estate in Tottenham [Map]. He was buried at St Andrew Undershaft Church, Aldgate Ward [Map].
The River Lea rises near Leagrave, Bedfordshire [Map] after which it travels through Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire [Map], Hertford, Hertfordshire [Map], Ware, Hertfordshire [Map], Broxbourne, Hertfordshire [Map], Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire [Map], Tottenham [Map] before joining the River Thames at Leamouth, Essex [Map].
On 21st October 1670 Hugh Smithson 1st Baronet [aged 72] died at his home in Tottenham High Cross. His son Jerome [aged 38] succeeded 2nd Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. He was buried in the Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire [Map].
Monument to Hugh Smithson 1st Baronet and Dorothy Royston sculpted by William Stanton [aged 31]. Note the effigies appears to have been sourced differently since hers has no mottling.
Hugh Smithson 1st Baronet: Around 1598 he was born to Antony Smithson.
Jerome Smithson 2nd Baronet: In 1632 he was born to Hugh Smithson 1st Baronet. In 1684 Jerome Smithson 2nd Baronet died. His son Hugh succeeded 3rd Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire.
