WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



CHILDWALL 



Hugh son of Henry son of Multon gave two of his 

 three oxgangs to Hugh de Moreton, for the rent of a 

 pound of cummin, and they were then given to Stan- 

 law Abbey.' Hugh and his son Richard continued 

 to hold the land as tenants ; Richard transferred the 

 third oxgang to the monks in return for a gift of five 

 marks.' 



Thomas is not heard of again ; but his four oxgangs 

 may be those granted by Adam de Garston to Simon 

 son of Henry de Garston, at the ancient farm of 

 2S. 6d. Simon gave lands in Aigburth to Stanlaw 

 Abbey. He is probably the Simon the clerk, son of 

 Henry, who attested several charters ; his father was 

 also a clerk. Simon had a son Henry and a daughter 

 Maud, who married John Minting, her father giving 

 them one oxgang on their marriage.' 



Henry son of Matthew had a daughter Aubrey (or 

 Albreda) who married William Rufus (Roo) and had a 

 son Walter. Aubrey gave to the monks of Stanlaw 

 two of the three oxgangs which descended to her, 

 receiving seven marks and an annual rent of a pair of 

 white gloves ; and the other oxgang she sublet to 

 Adam de Ainsdale, who granted this also to Stanlaw, 

 together with half an oxgang he held of Roger Balle. 

 Walter duly ratified his mother's gifts.* 



The three oxgangs of Simon brother of Adam de 

 Garston do not occur again, unless, indeed this 

 Simon, and not Simon son of Henry, was the father 



of John son of Simon, whose story has been narrated 

 above.' 



Adam de Garston III had, beside his heir, a 

 younger son Robert living as late as 1353, and com- 

 monly known as ' the lord's son.' As stated, Robert 

 received one oxgang from his brother Adam, who 

 had had it from their father, with reversion to their 

 sister Margery. This oxgang he in 1341 gave to 

 Adam his son for the old rent of 4a'. to the chief 

 lord ; with reversion to Margery." In 1 343 John 

 del Femes, chaplain, gave to Robert all the latter's 

 lands in Garston and fishery 

 in the Mersey, with remainders 

 in succession to his sons Wil- 

 liam, Roger, and Thomas.' 



Robert de Blackburn held 

 Garston for nearly forty years, 

 dying about the year 1354 ; 

 his wife Ellen is mentioned in 

 1332. He acquired various 

 portions of land from the 

 minor owners ; from Richard 

 son of Richard de Toxteth, 

 two oxgangs and land in Gras- 

 sendale ; from Roger de Hale 

 in Quindal Moor and the Dale; 



from Adam Wade in Mukelholm ; from Henry de 

 Easthead, and Margery his wife, in Ychyndale Moor ; 



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Blackburn of Gar- 

 ston, Argent, a Jess 

 undee between three mul- 

 lets sable. 



1 Whalley Coucker, ii, 569, 570, 577. 



2 For this and other grants see PFhalley 

 CQucher,u, 575, 573, 561, 576.^ Adam 

 de Garston as superior lord ratified the 

 sale of the three oxgangs to Stanlaw ; in 

 this he calls the grantor Richard de Bicker- 

 stath ; ibid, ii, 577. 



8 Norris D. (B. M.), 664, 704 ; Whalley 

 Gaucher, ii, 582. 



Simon son of Henry may also have been 

 the father of John son of Simon, who had 

 a son Simon, husband of Iseult; their chil- 

 dren were Roger and Ellen. The former 

 married in 1334 Ellen daughter of Robert 

 del Eves, but had no issue by her, and she 

 afterwards married Henry de Torbock. 

 The inheritance thus passed to Ellen the 

 sister of Roger, and in 1365 she sold it 

 to John de Blackburn, lord of the manor. 

 The holding is described as three messu- 

 ages, 30 acres of land and 31^. rent., with 

 the homages and services of Sir Henry le 

 Norreys of Speke, Adam de Minting and 

 William Jenkinson HuUeson of Garston, 

 for lands held of Ellen ; she received 

 100 marks; Norris D. (B. M.), 707, 

 7^7^ 777j 835, 808, 833-7 ; ^i"f/ 

 Cone. (Rec. See. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 

 173. 



There had been a dispute as to posses- 

 sion between Henry de Torbock and his 

 wife on one side and the Blackburns and 

 others on the other side, resulting in 

 favour of the former ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 2, m. ii. 



* Whalley Coucher, ii, 575, 571, 582. 



* It will have been noticed that at the 

 death of Adam de Garston in 1265 only 

 7 of the 32 oxgangs remained in the lord's 

 hands ; the remainder had all been granted 

 out. 



The abbey of Stanlaw had 7J oxgangs 

 including the land of the Chester hospital. 

 Suard the thegn had one which passed to 

 Richard brother of Adam II, and after- 

 wards to William son of Alan de Garston ; 

 Norris B. (B. M.), 666. Alice and Mar- 

 gery, daughters of Adam II, had 3J ox- 

 gangs, of which 3 had been his mother's 



dower ; ibid. 668. Henry son of Simon 

 had four, as above stated ; John the clerk 

 seems to have had one ; ibid. 695. Alan 

 del Moss appears to have had one or two ; 

 ibid. 681, 708. Adam son of Alan ij ; 

 ibid. 687, Roger Balle 2, of which J was 

 held by Adam de Ainsdale and i^ by 

 Roger son of Siward ; Whalley Coucher 

 (Chet. Soc), ii, 571, 583, 584. This land 

 seems to have come into the possession of 

 Stanlaw, and may be included in the 7J. 

 The church or chapel of Garston had one, 

 unless this was considered part of the 

 demesne ; Norris D. (B. M.), 743. Hugh 

 son of Lette seems also to have had i^ ; 

 ibid. 675. Adam son of Adam II had 

 one, which afterwards passed to his brother 

 Robert ; ibid. 674. There maybe others. 

 Those given amount to 26 instead of 25, 

 showing that in some cases the land was 

 held not directly of the lord of the manor, 

 but of an intermediate owner. 



Another point to be noticed is that the 

 holder, while keeping his * oxgang * intact, 

 would sell the approvements from the 

 waste belonging to it. For instance the 

 above-named Hugh son of Lette sold to 

 Adam, lord of Garston, land in the field 

 called Gorsticroft, * to wit as much as be- 

 longs to an oxgang and a half of land.* 

 John the Clerk also granted *a8 much as 

 belongs to one oxgang of land in the place 

 called Quindal moor' ; afterwards he 

 granted to another person ' all the part 

 which belongs to the oxgang which John 

 has in the said vill [of Garston], lying 

 between the river and Brooks.' Alan, 

 son-in-law of Wymark of Garston, and 

 Alice his wife granted *aU their part of 

 the waste in Quindal Moor, as much as 

 belongs to their oxgang of land in the vill 

 of Garston'; Norris D. (B. M.), 675, 



67O) 695, 708. 



6 Norris D. (B. M.), 788. 



7 Ibid. 794. 



Another local family had as its founder 

 Alan del Moss, who had sons William and 

 Hugh and a daughter Alice. This last, 

 known as *the widow of Garston,* had 



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three daughters, Alice, Wymark, and 

 Iseult ; she quitclaimed to the monks of 

 Stanlaw, with her daughters' consent, 

 Henry son of Gilbert the Little of Gar- 

 ston, having received js. from the abbot 

 and convent. Possibly she was the Alice 

 widow of Richard de Garston (or Bicker- 

 stath) already mentioned ; Whalley Cou- 

 cher, ii, 589, 576. The daughter Wymark 

 appears to have been a person of some 

 importance ; her daughter Alice was 

 known by her mother's name and her 

 husband Adam called himself ' son-in-law 

 of Wymark.' One of Alice's charters 

 {c. 1310) mentions several field names — 

 Hungry hill. Bridge greves, Galghstan 

 field, Long doles, and the moss ; in an- 

 other the Grossefield is named ; Norris D. 

 (B. M.), 707, 708, 747. Adam son of 

 William son of Alan del Moss had in 

 1290 a grant of land in Quindal Moor 

 from Adam de Garston ; ibid. 744. 



Richard son of Richard de Thornton 

 was among the benefactors of Stanlaw, 

 giving land in Aigburth which he had re- 

 ceived from Richard son of Hugh ; ibid, 

 ii, 561. He was followed about the 

 middle of the thirteenth century by a 

 Henry de Thornton, perhaps his son, 

 Henry, who had a daughter Christina 

 (Norris D. 19), was followed by a Simon 

 de Thornton ; Simon's widow Alice in 

 1295 relinquished all her claim upon any 

 lands her husband had given to Stanlaw ; 

 Whalley Coucher, ii, 586. 



Other families occur, Simon de 

 Molyneux had a son Robert and a grand- 

 son Adam in 1325-6, holding lands in 

 Garston ; perhaps a descendant was 

 William de Molyneux, who about 1410 

 married Katherine daughter and coheir 

 of John Godmonson and Aline his wife ; 

 Norris D. (B. M,), 676, 669, 759, 886. 

 John the Clerk already mentioned was son 

 of Martin of Churchlee ; he married 

 Iseult, daughter of Hugh Hall, and had a 

 son John, who like his father appears in 

 many thirteenth-century charters ; ibid. 

 689, 694-701. 



