STOCKTON WARD 



STRANTON 



DouswoRTH of Stran- 

 ton. Argent a cbeveron 

 between three bunting 

 borns sable zvitb a 

 quarter gules. 



Stranton on i8 April 1668.^' His heir was his son 

 Anthony Dodsnorth/* on whose marriage with Eliza- 

 beth daughter of Henry Maddeson, Stranton had been 

 settled in 1662.^' Anthony and Elizabeth sold their 

 lands in Stranton, including 

 the West Hall, Cadcotes, 

 Marchdykes and an eighth of 

 the pasture called the Snuke, in 

 1683 to Richard and William 

 Reed of Hart. William Reed 

 released his interest to Richard 

 in 1698, and by will dated 

 I 7 I 2 Richard left his lands in 

 Stranton to his wife Dorothy. 

 She married Edward Surtees of 

 Mainsforth in Bishop Middle- 

 ham (q.v.) in 1 7 1 5, and Stran- 

 ton was settled upon their 

 son Reed Surtees. He devised 

 his property in 1 790 to his 



nephew George Surtees, who sold it to his brother 

 Robert Surtees of Mainsforth. This Robert was the 

 father of Robert Surtees the historian, who inherited 

 the Stranton property and died in 1834.^^ The 

 borough of West Hartlepool now covers most of the 

 manor, which has been broken up into numerous 

 small estates. 



The vill of Stranton was a distinct manor belonging 

 to the elder branch of the Lumley family .■•' It was 

 held like the West Manor as a member of the manor 

 of Hart.^*" It is first mentioned in 1389, when Sir 

 Ralph de Lumley, kt., held it.''' On 7 May 1400 

 King Henry IV granted to his brother John Earl of 

 Somerset all the possessions of the late Ralph de 

 Lumley, kt., forfeited to the king by his treason, to 

 hold during the life of R.ilph's son Thomas, also 

 attainted, and during the minority of Thomas's heir ; 

 out of this grant, however, were excepted the manors of 

 Stranton and ' Beautrone,' which the king had granted 

 to Ralph's widow Eleanor for lite to maintain herself 

 and her twelve infants.^' 



In 1403 the vill of Stranton was held of Maud de 

 Clifford by John Lumley, a minor in the custody of 

 the king.''^ 



In 1457-8 Sir Thomas Lumley, kt., and .Margaret 

 his wife had a grant of wreck within their lordships 

 of Stranton and Seaton Carew.^" From this time the 

 manor followed the descent of Little Lumley until 

 1 562, when John Lord Lumley sold his manors of 

 Stranton, Seaton Carew and Newburn Row to Sir 

 Thomas Gresham, kt.*' Gresham left them to 

 Dame Anne his wife and her heirs.^- He died on 

 21 November I 579.*^ His wife survived him by nine 

 years, and was succeeded by her son by a former 

 husband. Sir William Reade.^^ Sir William had an 



only daughter Anne, who married Michael Stanhope 

 and died in her father's lifetime. In 1622 it was 

 found that William Reade's heirs were Jane, aged 

 twenty-one, wife of William Wothepell, Elizabeth, 

 aged nineteen, wife of George Lord Berkeley, and 

 Bridget Stanhope, aged seven, the three daughters of 

 Anne Stanhope and granddaughters of William 

 Reade.'* By divi-ion among the co-heirs and subse- 

 quent sales the property was broken up, and it is 

 impossible to trace a connected line further. Part of 

 it seems to have been acquired by the family of 

 Gibson, who built the East Hall of Stranton.*' Isabel 

 sister of William Gibson married Thomas Bromley of 

 Hart, whose grandson George Bromley left an estate 

 here in 1737 to his wife Mary." By her second 

 husband Robert Hilton Mary had a daughter and heir 

 Mary, who married the Rev. William LongstafF.*'* 

 A moiety of the manor and 750 acres of land belonged 

 in I 795 to William Longstaff, surgeon.*' In the early 

 19th century this estate was held in moieties by 

 Hilton Longitaff, grandson of the Rev. William Long- 

 staff, and Mary daughter of William Longstaff and 

 wife of VVilliam Lynn.'" 



Another portion of the manor called in 1731 a 

 third part belonged during most of the i8th century 

 to the Whartons of Old Park." Part of it was sold 

 before 1823 by Robert Wharton Middleton.'* 



The manorial rights have now lapsed. 



Land at Stranton held by Guisborough Priory under 

 grants from Robert de Brus (5 oxgangs) " and Bishop 

 Hugh Pudsey (2 oxgangs) '^ was granted as the manor 

 of Stranton in 1609 to George Salter and John 

 Williams.'* It was acquired from them by Robert 

 Gibson, Nicholas Dodshon and John Dodshon, who 

 held it in 1629." Its later history is uncertain. 



In 1146-51 Robert de Brus held 138 acres I rood 

 of demesne in TUNSTJLL.*^' After this the place 

 is not mentioned again until near the close of the 

 14th century. In 1389 it was stated that Roger de 

 Fulthorpe and Elizabeth his wife had been enfeoffed 

 of the manor of Tunstall with remainder to their heirs 

 in tail.'* This Roger de Fulthorpe was a cadet of 

 the family of Fulthorpe of Fulthorpe in Grindon 

 (q.v.) ; in a pedigree of 161 5 he is called the son of 

 Alan Fulthorpe.'" He was one of the adherents of 

 Richard II who were impeached by the Merciless Par- 

 liament in 1388, but his forfeited lands were restored 

 to his son Sir William Fulthorpe, kt."'^ According to 

 the pedigree of 161 5 Sir William Fulthorpe married 

 Isabel sister of Sir Ralph de Lumley, kt., and was 

 succeeded in turn by Roger, William "' and Thomas, 

 his son, grandson and great-grandson respectively.'* 

 On 5 October 1468 it was found that Thomas Ful- 

 thorpe had died without heirs male, having settled 

 his lands to the use of his daughters Isabel and 



" Par. Reg. 



" Foster, op. cit. 103. 



*■* Surtees, op. cit. iii, 122. 



*' Ibid.; see Mainsforth, Bishop Middle- 

 ham parish. 



" See Lumle)r Castle, Cheater le Street 

 parish. 



*^ Chan. Ini). p.m. 13 Ric. II, no. 14. 



" Ibid. 



*' Cat. Pat. 1399-1401, pp. 219, 281. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, file 177, 

 no. 37. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 45, m. 8. 



5' Ibid. R. 82, m. 7 i no. 6, fol. 35. 



^' Feet of F. Dur. Trin. 13 Eliz. 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxcii, 1 1 j 

 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 210, no. 56. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 192, no. 23 ; 

 Surtees, op. cit. Hi, 121. He had seisin 

 in 1 596 under the name of Edward Reade 

 (Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 92, m. 15). 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 189, no. 66. 



" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 121. 



" Ibid. 122. « Ibid. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 39 (3). 



^ Surtees, loc. cit. 



" Ibid, i Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 28 (4). 



" Surtees, loc. cit. 



" Guishra' Chartul. (Surt. Soc), 341. 



** Exch. Dep. Spec. Com. no. 3773. 



" Pat. 7 Jas. I, pt. iiii, no. 2. 



«* E»ch. Dep. Hil. 5 Chas. I, no. 13. 



" Guishro' Ciijrfu/. (Surt. Soc), ii, 323. 

 An Alice deTunstall held lands of William 

 Fiti Gilbert probably in Tunstall (Teita 

 Je Xetill [Rec. Com.], 393). 



*» Cal. Pat. 1388-92, p. 127. 



" Foster, op. cit. 131. 



'"Cat. Pal. 1388-92, pp. I2-, 168; 

 Lapsley, op. cit. 48 n. 



" bur. Rec. cl. 3, R. }6, m. {. 



" Foster, loc. cit. 



