Arms---Arg. on a pile azure, three dexter gauntlets of the field. Crest-A cubit arm erect, vested and cuffed, the sleeve charged with a pile arg. the hand grasping a sword ppr. Estates-The lordship of the extensive hundreds of Kilmersdon and Willow, with their royalties and paramountship, in the county of Somerset ; other lands in Kent. Seat-Ammerdown Park, near Bath. HAMERTON, OF HELLIFIELD-PEEL. HAMERTON, JAMES, esq. of Hellifield-Peel, in the county of York, M.A. barrister-at-law, b. 16th May, 1779, m. 22nd April, 1806, Maria, daughter of S. Chamberlayne, esq. of Ryes, in Essex, and has issue, CHISNALL, b. 22nd February, 1807, B.A. Frances. Mr. Hamerton succeeded his father in 1824. Lineage. "The Town of Hamerton," says Doctor Whitaker, "gives its name to one of the most ancient families in the North of England." The first member of which upon record, RICHARD DE HAMERTON, living in the 12th of HENRY II. was lineal ancestor of ADAM DE HAMERTON, Lord of Hamerton, who flourished towards the close of the reign of EDWARD III. He m. Katherine, daughter of Elias de Knolle, and acquired thereby the manors of Wigglesworth, Knolsmere, and Hellifield. He was s. by his son, * HELLIFIELD, anciently HELGEFELT, (the field of HELGE, its first Saxon possessor) was held by its mesnes lords of the knights of St. John, of Jerusalem, and by the latter of the Percies, chief lords of the fee. The Knolles acquired it from Isabel, daughter of Richard de Helgefelt, and widow of Robert de Stainton. RICHARD DE HAMERTON, Lord of Hamerton, Knolsmere, Wigglesworth, and Hellifield, who augmented his possessions by espousing Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William de Radcliffe, (and of his wife Ellen, niece and heiress of Henry de Langfield, of Langfield). The son and heir of this marriage, LAURENCE HAMERTON, of Hamerton, Langfield, &c. obtaining in the 19th of HENRY VI. license to fortify and embattle his manor of Hellifield, erected the mansion of HELLIFIELD-PEEL. He wedded Isabel, daughter of Sir John Tempest of Bracewell, (see page 290) and left issue, RICHARD (Sir), his heir. Radcliff, of the county of Lancaster, and secondly, to Sir John Mallory, of Studley. Alice, m. to Richard Sherburne, of Stonyhurst. Elizabeth, m. first, to Thomas Aldwark, of Aldwark, and secondly to John Woodrove, of Wollay. Jane, m. to Metcalfe, of Nappey. Katherine, m. to Peter Murfield, of He was s. by his son, SIR RICHARD HAMERTON, of Hamerton, who founded a chantry in the church of Long Preston, dedicated to our Ladye, and St. Anne. This gentleman wedded Eliza- | Stephen Hamerton, knt. attainted of high beth, relict of Sir Ralph Harrington, and treason," to George Browne, and his heirs, daughter of Sir John Assheton, K.B. of to be held of the King in capite for the conAssheton-under-Line. He d. in 1480, leaving sideration of £296. 9s. 2d. The estate did with a daughter, Jane, the wife of Brian not remain however long in this family, for Rocliffe, of Cowthorpe, one of the barons in the 7th EDWARD VI. it was alienated to of the Exchequer, a son and successor, Sir Arthur Darcy, knt. and by him, in the next reign, transferred to John Redman, esq. father of the gentleman who had married the granddaughter of the attainted Sir Stephen Hamerton. In the 3rd of ELIZABETH, this John Redman passed the manor to the nephew, and next male heir of the said Sir Stephen, namely, SIR STEPHEN HAMERTON, of Hamerton, who was made a knight banneret in Scotland, by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, in the 20th EDWARD IV. He espoused Isabel, daughter of Sir William Plumpton, of Plumpton, and dying in the 16th HENRY VII. was s. by his only son, JOHN HAMERTON, of Hamerton, &c. This gentleman m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Middleton, of Middleton, in Westmorland, and had issue, STEPHEN (Sir), his successor. JOHN, of whom hereafter, as con- Laurence. Thomas, living in Craven, in the time of HENRY VIII. John Hamerton d. in the 6th HENRY VIII. and was found by inquisition to have been seized in demesne as of fee in the manors of Hamerton, Knolsmere, Wigglesworth, Hellifield, Langfield, &c. He was s. by his eldest son, SIR STEPHEN HAMERTON, of Hamerton, who m. in the 21st HENRY VII. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Ralph de Bigod, knt. of . Setterington, and had an only son, JOHN HAMERTON, esq. who thus became of Hellifield-Peel." This gentleman wedded Ursula, daughter of Robert Banister, esq. of Kilbrook, and was s. at his decease by his son, LAURENCE HAMERTON, esq. of Hellifield Peel, who espoused Mary, daughter of William Wycliffe, esq. of Wycliffe, and had a son and successor, STEPHEN HAMERTON, esq. of Hellifield Peel. This gentleman m. first, Mary, daughter of Sir Mauger Vavasor, knt. of Weston, (see page 54) but had no issue. He wedded secondly, in 1607, Mary, daughter of Laurence Lister, esq. of Thornton and Midhope, and was s. at his decease, 9th November, 1651, by his eldest son, JOHN HAMERTON, esq. of Hellifield Peel, b. in 1610, m. Dorothy, daughter and coheir of Richard Folkingham, esq. of North Hall, in Yorkshire, and was s. by his eldest son, STEPHEN HAMERTON, esq. of Hellifield Peel, who espoused Eleanor, daughter of Alexander Rushton, esq. of Rushton Grange, and dying in 1676, left an only surviving son and heir, STEPHEN HAMERTON, esq. of Hellifield Peel, b. in 1668, who m. Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Chisenhall, of Chisenhall, in the county of Lancaster, and was s. in 1745, by his eldest son, JOHN HAMERTON, esq. of Hellifield Peel, in 1695, who m. first, Mary, daughter of Thomas Purchase, esq. of Langton, by whom (who d. in 1740) he had an only surviving HENRY, who wedded Joan, daughter of Christopher Stapleton, esq. of Wighill, and died, supposed of a broken heart, on the day of his father's execution. He left an only daughter, MARGARET, who wedded Francis Redman, esq. In the 17th HENRY VIII. we find Sir Stephen Hamerton in the train of Henry de Clifford, first earl of Cumberland, and in favor at court, but afterwards being in-b. volved in the great Northern insurrection, (anno 1537) he received his majesty's pardon. Rebelling a second time with the Lord Darcy, and his brother-in-law, Sir Francis de Bigod, he was taken prisoner, conveyed to London, and executed and attainted. The estates of this unfortunate gentleman falling under the attainder, HELLIFIELD PEEL remained vested in the crown, until granted (in the 37th HENRY VIII.) by the name of "the manor of Hellifield, with its appurtenances, part of the possession of * The insurrection is known in history as the Pilgrimage of Grace." child, MARY, m. to the Rev. James Brooke, of Killoughbeck. Mr. Hamerton wedded secondly, Mary, JAMES, his successor. GREENE, HENRY, esq. of Rolleston Hall, in the county of Leicester, b. 4th April, 1794, s. to the estates upon the demise of his maternal uncle, Henry Green, esq. in 1801. This gentleman, whose patronymic was THOMAS, assumed, by sign manual, in 1815, the surname and arms of GREENE, as representative of that ancient family. Lineage. HENRY, of whom presently. HENRY GREENE, esq. of Rolleston, espoused Mary, daughter of Abel Barker, esq. of Hamilton, in the county of Rutland, and sister to Sir Abel Barker, by whom he had, with other issue, a son, HENRY GREENE, esq. of Rolleston, b. about the year 1663, who m. Elizabeth, daughter and heir of his uncle, Richard Greene, esq. of Wykin, by whom he had an only son, RICHARD GREENE, esq. of Rolleston, who served the office of sheriff of Leicester in 1731. This gentleman m. Catharine, daughter of William Fortrey, esq. and niece of James Fortrey,† esq. of Royal Fenn, and had issue, * This gentleman was born on shipboard in the passage from Dieppe to England: and either he or his father built the house opposite to Kew Palace, which has since been inhabited by several branches of the Royal family. Back Stairs to King JAMES II. many of the family By this James Fortrey, who was page of the pictures now at Rolleston Hall were painted; and several curiosities still in the family collected. He m. the celebrated Lady Bellasyse, widow of the son of John, Lord Bellasyse, who was remarkable for a vivacity which seems to have supplied the place, and answered all the purposes of beauty: though she was one of the least handsome women that appeared at court, she gained so far upon the affections of the Duke of York, that he gave her a promise under his hand to marry, which through the interference of King Charles was afterwards destroyed. HENRY, his successor. Anna-Maria, m. in 1759, to Edward Hickman, esq. of Old Swinford, in the county of Worcester, and d. in 1779, leaving four sons and four daughters. Catherine, m. to Rev. Christopher Hatton Walker, M.A. rector of Harrington, Northamptonshire, and of Kibworth, in the county of Leicester, by whom she had issue, 1. RICHARD, in holy orders, rector of Galby. 2. Catharine, m. in December, Henry Towers Boulton, b. in Catharine, Georgiana, Anna, } Boulton. York, by Judith, one of the co-heiresses of Sir Walter Hawksworth, of Hawksworth, and had issue, HENRY, b. in December, 1761, who s. his father at Rolleston, 13th September, 1797, and m. in August, 1794, Elizabeth, daughter of John Glover, esq. of Barton, in Cambridgeshire, but dying without issue, in March, 1801, the family estates devolved upon his nephew. Catharine, who m. the Rev. Edward Thomas, M.A. vicar of Billesdon, and had issue, 1. HENRY THOMAS (now GREENE), present proprietor. 2. Edward-Thomas, b. 20th September, 1795. 3. Catherine-Thomas. Arms-Vert, three bucks trippant or, within a bordure of the second, quartering the ensigns of many distinguished houses, Richard Greene d. in January, 1781, and including PELL, FORTREY, JOCELYN, BARwas s. by his son, THE REV. HENRY GREENE, M.A. rector of Little Burstead and Laingdon, in Essex, and prebendary of Oxted in St. Paul's Cathedral, who m. Mary, only daughter of William Stainforth, esq. of Stillington near DOLF, &c. form a stag's head ppr. attired or. Crest-Out of park pales in a circular Estates Of Rolleston and Norton, in the county of Leicester. Seat-Rolleston Hall, Leicestershire. DALTON, OF THURNHAM. DALTON, JOHN, esq. of Thurnham Hall, in the county of Lancaster, b. in 1770, m. Miss Etheldreda Gage, by whom (who d. in 1819) JOHN, who wedded Måry-Anne, daughter of George LUCY, m. to Joseph Bushell, esq. barrister-at-law. Bridget, Charlotte, } both d. unmarried. Lineage. SIR JOHN DALTON, knt. son of Sir Robert de Dalton living in the reign of EDWARD III. died in 1369, seised of the manors of Bispham, Dalton Hall, and other lands in the county of Lancaster. He was direct ancestor of ROBERT DALTON, esq. of Bispham and Pilling, who acquired by purchase, in 1556, the manor and estate of THURNHAM. This gentleman d. s. p. in 1580, and was s. by (the son of his younger brother, Thomas Dalton, by Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux, knt. of Sefton,) his nephew, ROBERT DALTON, esq. of Thurnham, who d. in 1626, and was s. by his only son, THOMAS DALTON, esq. of Thurnham. This gentleman, a most enterprising, gallant, and intrepid cavalier, on the breaking out of the civil wars raised, at his own expense, a regiment of horse, to support the cause of royalty; to which he ever remained most faithfully attached. After rendering many very essential services to his ill-fated sovereign, he was at length so desperately wounded at the second battle of Newbury as to survive but for a very short period that unhappy conflict. He was s. by his same shire, and was s. at her decease in 1710, by her eldest son, JOHN HOGHTON, esq. who on inheriting Thurnham and the other estates of the family of DALTON, assumed that surname. He wedded Frances, daughter of Sir Piers Mostyn, bart. of Talacre, in the county of Flint, and was s. at his decease by his son, ROBERT DALTON, esq. of Thurnham, father of the present proprietor, JOHN DALTON, esq. Arms-Az. semée of cross crosslets, arg. a lion rampant gardant of the last. Crest-A dragon's head vert, between two dragon's wings or. Estates At Thurnham, Cockerham, Preston, Bispham, Pilling, Cockersand, Bulk, Caton, Lancaster, &c. Seat-Thurnham Hall, Lancashire. SIR RICHARD HOGHTON, of Hoghton Tower, Lancaster, 1st of Edward VI. lineally descended one of the knights of the shire for the county of from Adam de Hoghton, who held one carucate of land in Hoctor, temp. HENRY II. espoused four wives; by the first, Alice, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Assheton, knt. he left two sons and a daughter, who all died without issue, and by the second, Alice, daughter of Morley, he had, with as many daughters, three sons, viz. I. THOMAS, who eventually inherited Hoghton Tower and the other family estates, and was lineal ancestor of the present SIR HENRY-PHILIP HOGHTON, bart. of Hoghton Tower. (See Burke's Peerage and Baronetage.) II. Rowland, III. RICHARD, of Park Hall, from whom sprang in direct descent, the WILLIAM HOGHTON, esq. of Park Hall, who wedded (as in the text) the heiress of THURNHAM. |