SOME NOTES ON THE COKAYNE FAMILY. 129 
The earliest member of the family we can find residing in 
Ashburne is John Cokayne, who seems to have been settled 
here in the 12th century—crca 1150, although it is uncertain 
if he was the first of his family resident in Ashburne; no 
mention is made of them in Domesday, and it is more than 
probable that this John was akin to a family of that name in 
Essex. 
There is a John Cokayne mentioned in the following account 
of the “ Manor of Cokayne ” :— 
‘“The Parish of Alresford was divided into two Manors— 
Alresford Hall and Cokayne.” The Manor of Cokayne took its 
name from its early possessor, John de Cokayne, who in 1279 
had ‘two parts of one messuage, one caracute of arable land, 
20 acres of wood, 20 acres of pasture, and six marks rent ; also 
appurtenances in ‘ Elmestede, Bentleye, and Brumley.” From 
Cokayne (whose ancient wood, now called Cocking’s, _ still 
flourishes) this Manor passed to Benedict de Cokefield, who 
conveyed it in 1332 to Sir John de Sutton, of Wyenhoe Hall. 
His younger son, Sir Richard de Sutton, who died in 1395, 
held Cokayne of the heirs of Sir Thomas Mandeville, in free 
socage by the service of 19d. a year, and left Thomas his heir. 
The last of the Suttons was Margery, daughter of one Sir John, 
and she married John Walton, of Wyenhoe Hall Their grandson, 
Richard, held also the Manor of Stapleford of Sir John Howard, 
by the service of one Knight’s fee, and died in 1408. Joane, 
his sister, who succeeded him, married Sir John Howard, jun., 
who took up his residence at Wyenhoe Hall. Cokayne, as 
well as a reputed Manor called the Lodge, near the Colne, seems 
to have passed to the Martins, and then in the same way to the 
present owners.” * 
Sir Aston Cokayne also mentions an Essex Cokayne who 
lived at Henningham: Castle in that county, in the reign of 
William the Conquerer, to whom he was said to be allied. 
* From ‘“‘The Tendring Hundred in the olden time,” in the ‘‘ Zssex 
Telegraph,” 8 May, 1877. 
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