STOCKTON WARD 



STRANTON 



conveyed in 1728 by John son and heir of Christo- 

 pher Maire and Robert Forster, a mortgagee, to David 

 Mordue, who in 1755 conveyed it to John Dent, 

 owner already of one-eighth of the manor.**- John 

 Dent claimed manorial rights in 1766,"^ and sold his 

 share in 1769 to Robert Preston. A third part of a 

 moiety of the manor was conveyed by Robert Preston 

 in 1779 to Peter Holford, perhaps for settlement.*'' 

 His estate was bought in 1792 from his assignees by 

 George Pearson of Durham, whose daughter and heir 

 Elizabeth Jane married George Hutton Wilkinson of 

 Harperley in Auckland.''* In 184.9 ^- H. Wilkinson 

 sold half the manor to the trustees of Lord Eldon."" 

 The present earl has the only manorial rights 

 remaining here. 



A conveyance in 173 1 of the 'manor' of Seaton 

 Carew with 130 acres of land by Joseph Hall and 

 Katherine his wife and Robert Wharton and Mary 

 his wife **' probably h.is reference to a part of the 

 Reade moiety. 



Avice, the third co-heir of John de Carew, was 

 twice married, her first husband being Simon Lang- 

 ton '* and her second Thomas de Embleton.**' On 

 16 March 14.25-6 it was found that Thomas Langton, 

 aged forty, was her son and heir. She died seised of 

 a quarter of the manor of Seaton Carew, and the same 

 proportion of lands called Hallcroft, Chapelgarth, 

 Stakgarth and Ryland, a saltpit, a ferry across the 

 Tees, and rents from other lands, including a rent 

 from a saltpit called Make-beggar.'"' Thomas Lang- 

 ton was lord of Wynyard in Grindon (q.v.), and his 

 estate here followed the descent of Wynyard '■" till 

 the division among the heirs of William Claxton at 

 the end of the 1 6th century. 



These co-heirs conveyed their portions about the 

 year 161 2 to Robert Johnson of Oughton,''- who also 

 bought the fourth quarter of the manor assigned in 

 1387 to Joan de Carew. ''^ Joan married Richard 

 Hayton, and in 14.26 it was found th.it she had died 

 seised of a quarter of the manor of Seaton Carew, the 

 extent of which is given as in the inquisition of Avice 

 de Embleton."' |ohn, her son and heir,'* seems to 

 have been succeeded by Richard Hayton, probably 

 his son, who on 5 January 14.98-9 was found to have 

 died seised of a quarter of the manor of Seaton Carew, 

 his heir being his son Robert, aged forty.'"' On his 

 death in January i 501-2 it was found that Robert's 

 heir was his son Robert, aged thirty.''" This Robert 

 Hayton had a son William who married a certain 

 Alice, probably of the family of Lumley of Ludworth.'* 

 On this marriage the quarter of Seaton Carew was 

 settled. William Hayton apparently died childless, 

 and the manor was reconveyed to trustees to hold for 



Alice during her life, with reversion to Roger Lumley 

 of Ludworth. Alice married as her second husband 

 Roger Booth, and after her death in I 548 it was found 

 that the reversion of the quarter of Seaton Carew had 

 been settled by Roger Lumley on the marriage of his 

 daughter Anne with Thomas Trollope of Thornley " 

 (q.v.). It was inherited by Thomas's son John 

 Trollope, who in i 563 sold it to Bertram Anderson."* 

 Bertram died in I 571, leaving a son and heir Henry 

 Anderson, aged twenty-two.' Henry Anderson died 

 in 1605, his heir being his son Henry,- who in 1621 

 sold his quarter of the manor of Seaton Carew to 

 Robert Johnson, gent., the purchaser of the Claxtons' 

 quarter.' In 1638 a quarter of the manor was settled 

 on Nicholas Johnson, son of Robert.** The family 

 appears to have lived at Toft House, Seaton Carew, for 

 the rest of the 17th century. Anthony and William 

 Johnson paid the subsidy of 1670 for Seaton Carew.* 

 James Johnson of Seaton Carew voted at the Durham 

 County election of 1675,^ and he and his son William 

 mortgaged their estate called Tofts in Seaton Carew 

 in 1706. William had a son James, who added to 

 the property and in 1730 left it to his brothers 

 Matthias and Nicholas Johnson. The estate was sold 

 in 1750 by Nicholas Johnson to William Metcalfe, 

 who by his will made in 1774 left it to his nephews 

 John and William, sons of his brother David, in trust 

 for his niece Mary wife of his nephew George Met- 

 calfe, with remainder to William and George, sons of 

 George Metcalfe. In 1793 William son of George 

 and Mary Metcalfe barred the entail and in 1828 

 left the property to trustees for sale, who in 1832 sold 

 it to John Lord Eldon.*-'' Robert, William, Anthony 

 and Nicholas Johnson were freeholders in Seaton 

 Carew in 1681.' 



In March I 73 1-2 Anthony Johnson and Catherine 

 his wife conveyed four messuages and about 240 acres 

 of land in Seaton Carew and Hartlepool with an 

 eighth part of the manor of Seaton Carew to John 

 Simpson, with a warrant against the heirs of Catherine.* 

 This is the last occasion on which the Johnsons are 

 mentioned in connexion with the manor. It seems 

 probable that this part of their estate was acquired by 

 the Chilton f.imily. William Chilton and Anne his wife 

 made a conveyance of the m.inor and 700 acres here 

 in 1731," and members of the family occur in the 

 18th-century lists of freeholders. In 1766 the 

 claimants to the manor, besides Robert Preston and 

 John Dent,'" were John Wilson, Robert Harrison in 

 right of his wife Ann, the Rev. James Horseman, 

 the Rev. Thomas Drake, Cuthbert Scurfield, Nicholas 

 Chilton of Fishburn and Robert Chilton of Carr 

 House." In 1 77 1 John Wilson, William Metcalf, 



Ci. 



Sec 



^^ Surtccs, loc. cit. 



"*' Dur. Rcc. cl. 2, no. 132, fol. 41;, 74. 



*< Ibid. cl. 12, no. 35 (3). 



^ Surtccs, loc. cit. 



*" D. ^lenes the E.irl ol Eldon. 



" Dur. Rcc. cl. 12, no. 13 (4). 

 Stranton. 



™ Dtp. Ktepir's Rep. xlv, 229. 

 Wynyard, Grindon parish. 



^ Sec above. 



w Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, no. 2 

 R. 38, m. 14. 



" Ibid. no. 2, fol. 297 ; fol 

 174, no. 5 i R. 72, m. 18 ; 

 no. 30 ; R. 84, m. 8 ; R. 92, m. 4. S 

 Wynyard in Grindon, la 1574 William 

 Claxton conveyed the manor of Seaton 



fol. 227 ; 



301 

 file 



file 

 178, 



Carew to John Laxton (Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, 

 no. ii;7). 



■'- Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, R. 94, m. 23, 24, 52 ; 

 cl. 12, no. 2 (3). 



■" See below. 



" Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 233 ; 

 R. 38, m. 14 ; R. 46, m. 5. 



'■'■^ Ibid. ss Ibid, file 169, no. 18. 



" Ibid, file 170, no. 3. 



-'^ Sec Ludworth, Pittington parish. 



" Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, file 177, no. 75. 



'""Ibid. no. 114; no. 6, fol. 34: 

 R. ^e, m. 6. 



' Ibid, file 178, no. 60. 



' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), dciliii, 8. 



' Dur. Rcc. cl. 12, no. 3 (2). In 1612 

 Sir William Blakiston and Alice hii wife 



369 



conveyed a thiid of a quarter of the 

 manor to Robert Johnson (Ibid. no. 2 [3]). 

 In 1609 Francis Marley and CassaniJra 

 his wife received licence to alienate a 

 ihird of a quarter of the manor to 

 William Jennison (Ibid. cl. 3, R. 94., 

 m. 23). 



' Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, R. 109, no. 6. 



* Subsidy of 1670, Spearman MSS. 

 (D. and C. Lib. Dur.). 



' Poll Book, Lib. Soc. Antiq. Newcastle. 



''a D. penrs the Earl of Eldon. 



' Dur. Freehold Bk. D. and C. Lib. 

 Dur. 



' Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 23 (4). 



' Ibid. l» See aboTc. 



" Dur. Rcc. cl. I, no. 132, fol. 45, 74. 



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