Volume 4

A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke.

  • Burke, John, 1787-1848.
Date:
1833-1838
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Credit: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at Hampton Bishop, 31st March, 1671, who in. Lettice, daughter of Rowland Hunt, esq. of Bore Acton, in the county of Salop, but died without issue in 1752, aged 82, and was buried at Weobley on the 7th of April in * f that year. Mr. Birch devised the estates of Garnstone to (the son of his sister Eliza- beth) his nephew, John Peploe, who in consequence assumed the additional name and arms of Birch. (See family of Peploe). HULTON, OF HULTON. HULTON, WILLIAM, esq. of Hulton Park, in the county of Lancaster, b. 23rd October, 1787, ?n. 25th October, 1808, Maria, youngest daughter and co-heir of Randal Ford, esq. of Wexham, in Bucks, by Elizabeth, his wife, eldest daughter of Peter Brooke, esq. of Mere, in Cheshire, and has issue, i. William-Ford. ii. Arthur-Hyde. in. Frederick-Bleythin. iv. Charles-Norleigli. v. Hugh-Thurstain. vi. Alfred-Lacy. I. Amelia-Maria. n. Sophia-Frances-Anne. in. Gertrude-Mary. iv. Emma-Louisa. Mr. Hulton s. his father 24th June, 1800. He is a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for Lancashire, of which county he served as high sheriff in 1809. He is likewise constable of Lancaster Castle. This family possesses the most unerring- proof of antiquity in the title-deeds of their estate of Hulton, from which the Hultons derive their surname, and of which they have been uninterrupted lords since the Conquest. The first feudal proprietor on record, Bleythin de Hulton, living temp. Hen- ry II. was father of Jorveth, alias Yarwit de Hulton, who flourished in the reigns of Richard I. and John, and obtained from the latter a grant by charter of the town of Penelton, in Lan- cashire, in exchange for other lands which the king, when Earl of Morton, had given him. He had, with other issue, a son, Richard de Hulton, who had a grant of lands in Barton, from Edith de Barton, by consent of Gilbert de Notton, her husband, which lands Jorveth de Hulton, father of Richard, had some time held of her. To his son and successor, David de Hulton, Lord of Hulton, Lis cousin, Robert de Hulton, granted all Lis lands in Hulton, and William de Ferrers HmCcW. gave all his possessions in Flixton, together with his manor of Hordeshale, by homage and service of two marks of silver four times a year, and by the sixth part of a knight’s fee, A. D. 1219. David de Hulton wedded Agnes, daughter of Adam de Blackburne, and Avas father of several sons,* of Avliorn the eldest, Richard de Hulton, of Hulton, living temp. Edward I. had a charter of a free warren in his demesne lands of Hulton, Ordshall, Flixton, and Heaton, in the 32nd of that i-eign. He m. Margery, daughter of Robert de Radclive, of Radclive Tower, and had issue, i. Richard, his heir. ii. John, of Halliwell, living 35 Ed- avard III. iii. Adam, successor to his nephew. iv. Roger, who held lands in Manches- ter, and cl. prior to the 14th of Ed- ward III. The eldest son, Richard de Hulton, of Hulton Park, had a grant of lands in Halghton, from the abbot and convent of Cockersand, dated 16th June, 5th Edward II. This Richard left a son and successor, Richard de Hulton, of Hulton Park, who d. s. p. and Avas s. in his estates (of which he had made a settlement, 7th Ed- ward III.) by Lis uncle, Adam de Hulton, of Hulton Park, living temp. Edward III. Avliorn. Alicia de Eccles, and had, with several younger sons, his suc- cessor, Roger de Hulton, of Hulton Park, who * From John de Hulton, the youngest son, de- scended the Hultons of Farneworth.