WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



and John, 1 and the former leaving a daughter and 

 heir Margaret, Burtonhead passed to her issue by her 

 husband, Hugh son of Richard de Pemberton.' 

 William their son succeeded, 3 

 and was followed by John 

 Pemberton, who died about 

 1501;' the latter's son James 

 was followed by George Pem- 

 berton, 5 and he by his son 

 iames. 6 His heir was another 

 ames, his son, who with his 

 son James appears to have mort- 

 gaged and then sold the manor, 7 

 which shortly afterwards was 

 held by Henry Eccleston of 

 Eccleston. 8 In this family and 

 its successors it descended 9 like 

 Eccleston until 1803, when it 

 old to Michael Hughes 



HUGHES OK SHERD- 

 LEY. Gules, two lions 

 passant in pale and in 

 chief a rose argent} in 

 dexter chief a mullet for 

 difference. 



of Sherdley, ancestor of Captain Hughes, the present 

 owner. 10 Large portions of the lands pertaining to it 

 have been sold to manufacturing companies and others. 



The Norrises of Speke also had land here. 11 It 

 was at Sutton that John le Norreys of Speke im- 

 prisoned Margery de Bulling until she resigned her 

 land. 1 ' 



The grant of ELTONHEAD, as one plough-land, to 

 Hugh le Norreys 13 has been mentioned above. The 

 lordship of Eltonhead is next found after nearly two 

 centuries, in the possession of the Lathoms of Lathom. 



PRESCOT 



In 1370 it was held by Thomas, son of Robert de 

 Lathom, of William Daniell, by knight's service." It 

 descended to the earls of Derby with the other 

 Lathom manors, but is not 

 mentioned in the Derby in- 

 quisitions. 15 The same or a 

 later Hugh le Norreys in the 

 thirteenth century granted four 

 oxgangs of land, or half the 

 vill of Eltonhead, to William 

 le Norreys, 16 who appears to 

 have settled there, becoming 

 ancestor of the family who took 

 their name from the place and 



ELTONHEAD. Quarterly 

 per Jesse indented sable 



quarter three plates fesse- 

 ivajs. 



held this mesne manor down 



to the end of the seventeenth 



century. The sons of William 



were probably the ' Alan and 



Robert, sons of William le 



Norreys ' who attested the charter of William Samson 



concerning Eccleston and Rainhill about 1270." 



William le Norreys was still living in 1 2^.6. w 



For a time Eltonhead seems to have been held in 

 division between the descendants or representatives of 

 his sons. Of the two brothers, Robert lived the 

 longer, dying about I3IO; 19 Alan was represented by 

 Henry, probably his son, as early as 1 302. Robert 

 was succeeded by his son Alan,* and the latter's son 

 Richard, dying in his fuher's life time," was succeeded 

 by his son Henry before 1353." 



