The Hortons of Hartford
the Hortons of Hartford"
HARTFORD HORTONS
Horton and Hartford are located in
Northumberland, England
The
Hartford Hortons and Shropshire Hortons were unrelated to the
Leicestershire/Yorkshire Hortons. The most difficult part of
separating the three family lines is the fact that some members of all
three families moved to London. I gave up trying to separate them
at that point. Also, all three families loved the names: William,
Roger, John and Thomas.
The following is from research done by Peter Sutton on
GEN-MEDIEVAL-LIST. He found the information in Craster's - A
History of Northumberland, Volume IX, pages 143-264 - which covers
Horton Township, Horton lies between Cramlington and Seaton Delaval in
Northumberland:
In January 1203/4 King
John confirmed,Walran, son of Robert Viscount in the Manor of Horton of
which he had been enfeoffed by Constance and Robert de Cramavill and he
also sanctioned the grant made by Constance and Robert de and her son
to Robert fitz Roger, lord of Warkworth, of the Wardship and marriage
of Walran who was a minor. Craster says that the ancestry of
Walran is uncertain although he also owned lands in Normandy. He
died on 24 Aug 1257. No mention is made of his wife, Agnes de
Vaux's parents.
Isabella was first of all married to Thomas de Castre in 1256. He
died in 1261 (s.p.). Isabella then married Sir Thomas de Ryhill
who died before 15 Mar 1266/67. Her third husband was Sir
Guischard de Charron. Horton was settled on Isabella by her
father, Sir Walran de Horton, when she was first married in 1256.
Although she had issue from her second husband, nevertheless she joined
with Sir Guischard in February 1279 in settling Horton upon Sir
Guischard the younger, a child from Isabella's husband's first marriage
to Mary de Sutton.
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