Children of John Nuthall and Elizabeth Bacon: 
(Nu9) Eleanor Nuthall   b. c 1645, d. bt 2 Jul 1696 - Mar 1700/1 
Nu9-2 John Nuthall married Eleanor Sprigg Sp7-6

"Capt. William Jones, justice of peace and quorum in his majis county of North'ton, Virginia, doth declare on oath, y't about thirty-five or thirty-six years since hee did offten sale a trading w'th ye Indians in ye bay of Chessapiack, and well knew ye river Pokomoke, w'ch lyeth to ye Southward of a little point described in Capt. Smith's Mapp w'thout a name, and is so far Southward as a man can see from ye place described in Capt. Smith's Mapp for Watkins point; and doth decirm y't ye said river of Pokomoke was then soe called, and noe such name as ye river Wighco, either at y't time tyme or in ye memory of man before, was applyed to ye river of Pokomoke, and y't ever since ye said river, soe scituated as aforesaid, hath bin and is called by ye name of Pocomoke river. And farthermore this deponent saith, y't in the time hee was a married man and a trader in y't bay of Chessapeak, John Nutwell was a boy and servant to Hugh Hays, and was run away from his said master, and this deponent gave a hoe to ye Indians for ye said Nutwell, and brought him home again, well straped w'th ye hallyards. Soe farr this deponent maketh oath. /s/ Will. Jones Sworne in open court ye 18th of July, 1664" [Henry A. Wise, et al., Report and Accompanying Documents of the Virginia Commisioners Appointed to Ascertain the Boundary Line Between Maryland and Virginia (with Appendix, Atlas) (Richmond, Virginia: 1873), Appendix - pp. 78 - 79. Also see Clayton Torrance, Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, p. 486.]

John Nuthall was still in Stafford County, Virginia, in 1640. He was married in Maryland about January 1644 to Elizabeth Bacon, ??daughter of Nathaniel Bacon and granddaughter of Reverend James Bacon and Martha Woodward (not Honywood, as many sources report; her mother was a Honywood). and widow of John Holloway. (I do have some doubts about that early date: note that their first child was not born before 1648.) They were the parents of (1) Eleanor (c1648-1704), married our ancestor Thomas Sprigg; (2) James (c1649-p1685), married and may have had descendants; (3) John (1651-p1713), married twice; and (4) Elias (1652-1704). Elizabeth Bacon died before 1660, when John Nuthall married Jane Johnson. He eventually acquired his own plantation, called Cross Manor, on the eastern shore of Maryland. His name is on the Oath of Loyalty (to the Commonwealth) signed by many Marylanders in 1651; as is Thomas Sprigg's.

 This family originated in Birkenhead, a township in Bidston Parish, Wirral Hundred, Cheshire, directly across the Mersey from Liverpool. At the time of Edward III, John de Birkenhead held property there, but I can find no pedigree; the Visitation of Cheshire begins about a century later with Henry Birckenhead, father of another Henry Birckenhead, father of Adam Birckenhead (died p1509), who married Alice, daughter and heiress of John Huxley of Huxley, a manor in Cheshire which also much later produced the famous Huxley family (Thomas Henry, Aldous, etc). They were the parents of seven children: (1) John, one son, one granddaughter, no further descendants; (2) Henry, whose descendants eventually inherited Huxley and the other family properties; many lines in both Cheshire and Ireland; (3) Hugh, ancestor of the Birkenheads of Rivington, Lancashire; (4) Sir Ralph Birkenhead (died p1505), recorder of Chester, had descendants; (5) Margaret, married Thomas Touchet of Whitley; (6) Alice, married John Whitmore of Thurstanton; and (7) our ancestor Elizabeth, married Thomas Hurlton or Hurleston of Hurleston - their daughter Alice married Richard Nuthall (c1516-p1560). 

The modern Earls of Birkenhead are not related.

The arms are described as: Sable, three garbs argent, a bordure engrailed of the second.