Whitfield family

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The Whitfield family was a landowning Norman family in present day United Kingdom, the family was seated at Whitfield Hall in Northumberland. The area was granted by William King of Scotland in the twelfth century. The family derives it's name from the old English hwit-feld, meaning open white lands. The genealogy is as follows:[1]

Bibliography

  • Monastico Anglicanum Vol 1 p. 305 Account of the Saxon earls of Mercia under the title Coventry Abbey
  • Ordericus Vitalis
  • Register Abbey de Evesham D.V. Cap Eccl. Cath College Oxon
  • Lands mentioned in Domesday Book, Vol 1 p. 284 Warwickshire. Terra in Coleshill and Hd, Terra Comitissae Godeva (Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire).
  • Robert Thoroton's Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (de Buslie family)
  • Ware's Antiquities of Ireland by
  • An account of the early Marshals of England extracted from Berry's Encyclopaedia Heraldrica Vol 1
  • Ingulph's History of Croyland Anno 1091 (Croyland Chronicle by Ingulf)
  • Nicholson and Burn's History of Westmorland and Cumberland Vol 1
  • Calenarium Inquis Post Mortem
  • Wallis's History of Northumberland
  • Dugdale's Baronage, William Dugdale
  • Fodera Litt and Acto Publicas Vol 1
  • Survey of London, John Stow

Sources

  1. ↑ Palmer, John (1836). The Descent of the family of Whitfield of Whitfield Hall in Northumberland from the Saxon earls of Mercia; and the Norman families of Meschines, D'Estrivers, Egaine, Buslie asimonnd Espee. Chetham Library, Manchester, UK. 


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