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- The estate included the site of the manorhouse, 400 acres of arable land, 60 acres of meadow, a fishery in the Tees, and 120 acres of pasture. His son William, then twenty-three years old, had seisin, but died in January 1443?4, leaving a son John, aged two years. Eleanor widow of Sir William held the manor of Trafford in dower till her death in January 1451?2. The infant heir had died, and his heirs were found to be John Norton, aged twenty-six, son of her daughter Isabel wife of Richard Norton, and Denise, aged thirty-six, another daughter, wife of William Mallory. The heirs received the manors and lands and in 1451 made a partition, by which Trafford was given to the Mallorys of Studley in Yorkshire.
Mallory, who had held his lands in right of his wife, died in or before 1475, holding the manor of Trafford, with a fishery in the Tees, as well as other estates in Durham; the heir was his grandson William, of full age. (fn. 207) This William died in 1498, holding the same estate, leaving a son and heir John, aged twenty-four. (fn. 208) John, who married Margaret, daughter of Edmund Thwaites, had seisin of his father's lands in 1499; he became a knight, and died 23 March 1527?8, leaving a son William, thirty years of age. In 1528 William had livery of the Durham lands. He held the manor about twenty years, and died in 1547, when his son Christopher, aged twenty-five, was found to be his heir. He died shortly afterwards holding 'Straffordfeld'; his posthumous son John became his heir. Sir John Mallory of Studley in Yorkshire, Dame Anne his wife, and William his son and heir, in 1605 granted 'the manor and lordship of Strafforthe alias Trafforth Feilds or Trafford Hill' to William and John Wentworth, younger sons of William Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, and the conveyance seems to have been completed in 1613?14.
source: 'Parishes: Egglescliffe', A History of the County of Durham: Volume 3 (1928), pp. 222-32. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42625. Date accessed: 24 March 2007.
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Abt 1500 - 1547 (~ 47 years)
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