CITY OF DURHAM 



Williamson. Or a 



cbeveron gules bev^een 

 three trefoils sable. 



Anne Hendry in 1683 -^^ his son John was bap- 

 tised in August 1684," and marriedMary Hodgson 

 in 1709.'- He seems to have had a son John.'^ 

 John Hopper the elder died in 1743,'* and was 

 succeeded by his son John Hopper, who had a 

 son Robert Hopper,'^ born in 1755.^* Robert 

 married Anne, daughter 

 and heir of Dr. WilHam- 

 son of Whickham" by his 

 wife Frances, daughter of 

 Richard Hendry of Durham 

 and widow of John Barras.** 

 On his marriage he as- 

 sumed the name of Hopper 

 Williamson, and as Robert 

 Hopper Williamson he held 

 the offices of Recorder of 

 Newcastle and Temporal 

 Chancellor of the county of 

 Durham.^' He died in 1835,^' and after his death 

 the connexion of the family with Shincliffe 

 ceased. 



In 1 183 SUNDERLAND BRIDGE (Sunder- 

 land xi cent., Sunderland near Durham xiv 

 cent., Sunderland near Croxdale xv-xvii cent.) 

 was part of the lands of the Bishop and was let 

 to farm for looj.-^ At some time between this 

 date and the Bishop's death in 1195 Hugh de 

 Pudsey gave the vill to Meldred son of Dolfin,-- 

 the ancestor of the NeviUs of Raby. The manor 

 was afterwards the subject of a sub-enfeoffment, 

 but the overlordship followed the descent of 

 Raby (q.v.) until the attainder of the sixth Earl 

 of Westmorland. 



In the 14th century the tenancy in demesne 

 appears to have been divided between two 

 co-heirs, of whom one was Cassandra wife of 

 William Daniel of Bilton-^ in York Ainsty. 

 Another moiety was in the hands of William de 

 Kilkenny the younger,'^ whose widow Katherine 

 in 1382 granted all her right therein to Hugh de 

 Westwyk, a clerk, as well as her estate in Cas- 

 sandra's moiety.-^ Richard de Kilkenny the 



^^ Headlam, op. cit. 156. 



"Ibid. 158. 12 Ibid. 211. 



13 iV. Co. Diaries (Surt. Soc), 183 n. 



I'' Headlam, op. cit. 281. 



1* N. Co. Diaries (Surt. Soc), 183 n. 



1* M.I. St. Nicholas, Newcastle. 



" N. Co. Diaries (Surt. Soc), 183 n. 



1* Headlam, op. cit. 219, 269. 



1' M.I. St. Nicholas, Newcastle. 



20 Ibid. 



" Boldon Bk. (Surt. Soc), 35. Roger de Audin, 

 lord of Butterby, rendered I mark for the millpond 

 made, apparently as an intrusion, on the demesne of 

 Sunderland (ibid.). 



22 Lans. MS. 902, fol. 67 d. The grant included 

 ' Winston, Winlokest and Neuhusam.' 



23 Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 32, m. 4-5. 



2< He died before 1373 (ibid. no. 2, fol. 92). 

 25 Ibid. no. 32, m. 4-5. 



Nevilli. Gules 

 sallire argent. 



younger, son and heir of William and Katherine, 

 also released all right in his mother's moiety2' 

 and a further release from Katherine was 

 executed two years later .2' In 1385 trustees 

 conveyed the moiety ' late belonging to William 

 de Kilkenny the younger to the overlord, John 

 de Nevill ' 28 lord of Raby. 



It must have been again the subject of 

 enfeoffment, for before 1420 it had come into the 

 hands of John Hoton of Tudhoe, being held by 

 him of Richard (Nevill) 

 Earl of Westmorland.2' 

 On John's death in this 

 year it passed to William 

 his son and heir,^*' who 

 was described as ' of Hun- 

 wick,' on his mother's 

 death in 1444, when he 

 was a man of 50.^1 He 

 died in March 1448 ^2 and 

 the name of Ralph Hoton 

 occurs as tenant of the 

 family lands in 1464.33 A John Hoton died 

 in or about 1498, leaving two daughters and 

 co-heirs : Ellen the eldest married John Hed- 

 worth, while Elizabeth became the wife of 

 Richard Hansard.3* In March 1512-3 William 

 and Elizabeth Hansard made a settlement of 

 their lands here on themselves for life with 

 remainder in tail to William their son and 

 contingent remainder to Thomas his brother.** 

 William Hansard the elder died in 1520 ;3* his 

 nineteen-year-old son only survived him a few 

 months and the reversion of the lands of the 

 elder Elizabeth passed to his posthumous 

 daughter of the same name.3^ 



Elizabeth married Francis Ayscough and 

 obtained livery of her lands in 1528.3* Francis 

 Ayscough conveyed his lands in Sunderland 

 Bridge in 1557 to Robert Tempest and Ralph 

 Hoton,39 lord of a portion of the manor of 

 Woodham (q.v.). Sunderland Bridge was held 

 by George Hulton of Sunderland and Woodham, 

 on his death in February 1621-2.*" George, who 

 was an old man and childless, in 161 3 made a 

 settlement of the land here on himself for life 

 with remainder to his sister Mary Biggins. 

 Mary died before her brother and George then 

 granted all his property in Sunderland to her son 



«8 Ibid. 2' Ibid. 28 Ibid. 



29 Ibid. no. 2, fol. 196. 



30 Ibid. 



31 Ibid. ptfl. 164, no. 58. 



32 Ibid. no. 88. 



33 Feod. Prior. Dun. (Surt. Soc), 162. 

 3* Dur. Rec cl. 3, ptfl. 169, nos. 53, 54. 

 3* Ibid. ptfl. 173, no. 20 ; no. 77, m. 32. 

 36 Ibid. ptfl. 173, no. 15. 



3' Ibid. ptfl. 173, no. 6, 15. 



3« Ibid. no. 77, m. 9. 39 Ibid. cl. 12, no. I- 1. 



« Ibid. cl. 3, ptfl. 189, nos. 67, 68. 



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