STOCKTON WARD 



STAINTON 



Alice married Robert Lambton.-' Alice died in 144.0, 

 leaving a son and heir Rich.ird Lambton,-" killed at 

 Towton (Yorkshire) in 1461.-'' Richard's son and heir 

 Robert ^'^ made a division of the demesne lands of 

 Stainton in 1487 or 1488 with Robert Thirkeld, 

 holder of the second moiety.^' He had a son Thomas,'- 

 whose son Robert'^ made his will in 1 563.-" William 

 son of Robert '■'■ married Margaret Barnes of Little 

 Haughton and died in 1580 seised of half the manor, 

 and was succeeded by a son also called William. '^ 

 William Lambton, son and heir of this younger 

 William,'^ was the last of the male line. His heirs 

 were his sisters Anne wife of Nicholas Chaytor and 

 Margaret wife of John Killinghall.^" In 1646, how- 

 ever, this moiety of the manor was sequestered for the 

 delinquency of Ralph Coatsworth, \vho represented 

 that his brother William, whose heir he w.is, had had 

 a conveyance of the estate. ^'^ John Killinghall made 

 a successful claim on behalf of his wife and her sister.'"' 

 The share of the Killinghalls was inherited by William 

 son of John Killinghall and then by his son William, 

 who sold his estates.''^ The purchaser of his quarter 

 of Stainton, Thomas Ogle, seems also to have acquired 

 the Chaytor share, which was sold under an Act of 

 1695 for the payment of the debts of Sir William 

 Chaytor.*- Thomas Ogle, who was in possession of a 

 moiety of the manor in 1719," left it in 1725 to his 

 uncle John Ogle for life, with remainder of one quarter 

 to his cousin Margaret Robinson for life, and after- 

 wards to his cousin Anne, wife of Sir William Middleton, 

 bart., and of the other quarter directly to the same 

 Anne." Sir William Middleton (of Bels.iy, North- 

 umberland) dying in 1757 left his estate here to his 

 nephew William Middleton.''^ In 1760 Dame Anne 

 Middleton conveyed it to John Tempest."* It 

 followed the descent of Wynyard in Grindon parish 

 (q.v.) till 1823, when the Marquess of Londonderry 

 sold part to the Rev. Daniel Mitford Peacock, of 

 whom it was purchased in 1835 by John Lord Eldon, 

 who had in 1826 acquired the rest of the estate at 

 Great Stainton of the Marquess of Londonderry.*' 

 The present lord of the manor is the Earl of Eldon. 



The second moiety, inherited by Alice wife of 

 Walter de Denton, passed to her daughter and heir 

 Joan, who married first Robert Thirkeld and after- 

 wards Thomas Tailboys.*^ With her second husband 

 she made an agreement in 1433 with Robert Lambton 

 and Alice his wife by which the land in the manor of 

 Stainton was divided.''^ In the same year Joan and 

 Thomas conveyed land in Stainton and elsewhere to 

 John Thirkeld, son and heir of Joan by her first 

 husband.'''" John Thirkeld, who with his wife Maud 

 made various settlements of land here, was still living 



Thirkeld. 

 a ileet't guUi. 



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in 1480. In that year his son William conveyed to 

 his son Robert Thirkeld all his land in Stainton, sub- 

 ject to an annuity of 40/. to William during the life 

 of John.*' Robert was holding a moiety of the manor 

 seven years later.''- In 1550 

 Robert Thirkeld, perhaps his 

 son, agreed to settle an estate 

 in Stainton of the yearly value 

 oi £\o on the marriage of his 

 daughter and heir Eleanor 

 with Thomas son of John 

 WyclifFe.'^ This moiety is 

 next mentioned in the posses- 

 sion of Anthony Rickaby, who 

 held it in 1586.=* He died 

 in I 593, leaving a son and heir 

 William.*' In 1623 Anthony 

 Rickaby, presumably the heir 



of William, with Anne his wife, Thomas his brother 

 and Fortune his mother, granted half the manor to 

 Robert Rickaby, who with Margaret his wife in March 

 1633-4 gave it to his son John on the marriage of the 

 latter with his wife Elizabeth.^* In 1644 William 

 Rickahy's lands in Stainton were sequestered,*' and in 

 1684 Elizabeth Rickaby was among the freeholders 

 here.*' Lands in Stainton were held by John Holme of 

 Newcastle, probably as mortgagee, which were assigned 

 in 1744 by his son Thomas to John Rickaby of Lee 

 Close House. John Rickaby was succeeded by his 

 sister Isabel wife of Anthony Hubbock, who be- 

 queathed the estate at Great Stainton to Anthony 

 second son of Christopher Jurdison of Lee Close 

 House. Jurdison sold it in 1797 to Robert Collings 

 of Hurworth. Robert was succeeded in 1820 by a 

 brother Charles, who held the estate until his death 

 without issue in 1836. It was sold in 1837 by the 

 trustees under Robert Collings' will to James Watson 

 of Great AyclifFe, being then described as Stainton 

 Grange. James Watson devised it in 1 844 to Samuel 

 Swire, ;on of his cousin Maria wife of Samuel Swire 

 of Skipton, CO. York, who sold it in 1864 to the 

 trustees of the Earl of Eldon. ^*^ 



A 'manor' of St.iinton in the Street was conveyed 

 about 1425 by Ralph Earl of Westmorland to 

 trustees.*' Probably the overlordship had come in 

 some way into his hands. 



Richard de la Hay, who acquired the manor in the 

 13th century, obtained special permission at the same 

 time to build a mill within or without the vill.^" He 

 probably availed himself of this right, for in 1433 the 

 owners of the two moieties of the manor agreed to 

 divide its demesne lands, leaving the manorial mill and 

 the bake-house to be held in common.'^' In the 16th 



" Arch. All. (New Scr.), iii, 82 ; 

 Surtees, op. cit. iii, 62. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 164, no. 79. 



*^ Ibid, file 166, no. 52 ^ Surtees, op. 

 c!t. iii, 62. 



'" Dur. Rec. cl. %, file 166, no. 52. 



" Arch. Acl. (New Scr.), iii, 90. 



^* Surtees, op. cit. iii, 62 ; Aich. Acl. 

 loc. cit. 3^ Ibid. 



" Dur. IViUs ami Invent. (Surt. Soc), 

 i, 211. '^ Ibid. 



^* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), dcxliii, 14. 

 His widow ni,irried William Burton, who 

 made an agreement about the manor with 

 Anthony Rickaby in 1586 {Arch. Acl. 

 [New Ser. ], iii, 92 ; Surtees, op. cit. Iii, 

 61 n.). 



3 



'■ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 183, no. 66. 



^'' Rec. Com. for Comj>. (Surt. Soc), 

 260 ; Surtees, op, cit. iii, 62. 



■^'■^ Rec. Com. for Comf>. loc. cit. 



*" Ibid. 158. 



*' Arch. Acl. (New Ser.), ii, 94-8. 



*'^ Ibid, iii, 94. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 20 (4). 



^' Surtees, op. cit. iii, 61 ; cf. Dur. 

 Rec. cl. 12, no. 22 (3). 



*■' Ibid. ; G.E.C. Baronetage, iii, 261-2. 



*" Surtees, loc. cit. 



*' D. fenei Earl of Eldon. 



*« Arch. Acl. (New Ser.), Ill, 82, 96. 

 See Denton. 



" Ibid. 96 ; Surtees, op. cit. iii, 399. 



^" Arch. Ael. loc. cit. 



345 



5' Ibid. 



-■ Ibid. 9-. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. So, m. 11. 

 " Arch. Acl. (New Ser.), ill, 92 ; 

 Surtees, op. cit. ill, 61 n. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 192, no. 12. 



^' Ibid. R. 107, no. 3 d. 



*' Rec. Com. for Comp. (Surt, Soc), 14, 



'5: 



■'* Surtees, op. cit. iii, 61. The others 

 were Henry Rawling, William Tunstall 

 and Thomas Pearson. 



*9.-> D. fenei Earl of Eldon. 



'^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 28S ; 

 R. 36, m. I, 



^' Surtees, op. cit. iii, 399. 



«i Ibid, 



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