Richard de Houghton 1260-1340

Hoghton Surname
The surname of HOGHTON was a locational name 'of Haughton' in the North and West Ridings of Yorkshire. There are endless towns, villages and hamlets bearing this name. In the middle ages it was customary for a man to be named after the village where he lived, or from the land that he owned. This would identify the whole family, and followed them wherever they moved. Early records mention William de Hoctona de Hohton, who appears to be the first of the name on record in 1115, County Yorkshire. Symon de Howtone was recorded in 1279, County Lancashire. John de Haleghton, 1273 County Yorkshire. Willelmus de Halgton of Yorkshire, was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Thomas Houghton of Houghton, Lancashire, was listed in the Wills at Chester in 1621. The rise of surnames, according to the accepted theory, was due to the Norman Conquest of 1066 when Old English personal-names were rapidly superseded by the new christian names introduced by the Normans. Of these, only a few were really popular and in the 12th century this scarcity of christian names led to the increasing use of surnames to distinguish the numerous individuals of the same name. Some Normans had hereditary surnames before they came to England, but there is evidence that surnames would have developed in England even had there been no Norman Conquest. The development of the feudal system made it essential that the king should know exactly what service each person owed. Payments to and by the exchequer required that debtors and creditors should be particularized, and it became official that each individual acquired exact identification. A distinguished member of the name was Richard Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809-85). He was the English politician and man of letters, born in London. He was M.P. for Pontefract and entered the House of Lords in 1863. He championed many causes through the House, and was a patron of many young writers like Tennyson and Thackeray. An eminent member of the name was William Stanley Houghton (1881-1913) the English dramatist and critic, born in Ashton-upon-Mersey. His best known works were 'The Dear Departed' (1908) and 'The Younger Generation' written in 1910.


The associated arms are recorded in Burkes General Armory Registered at Gunthorpe, County Norfolk.
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Hoghton Family Pedigree History
General Statement of Hoghton family pedigree: The de Hoghtons are of ancient lineage, descended from Harvey de Walter, one of the companions of William the Conqueror, and through the female line from the Lady Godiva of Coventry, wife of Leofric III the Great, Earl of Mercia. After the third generation from the Norman Conquest, Richard and William de Hoghton first assumed the family name around 1150. The great-grandson, Sir Adam de Hoghton, was knighted and died in 1290.

Sir Richard de Hoghton 1316-1345, Knight of the Shire in the Parliaments of 1322-27-37. Married Sybilla de Lea, direct descendant of the Lady Godiva, whose lands in Lea still form part of the Hoghton Estates. Warden of the Ports, knighted by Edward III in 1336 and given permission to empark in 1327. It was from Lea Hall (his private residence), that Thomas Hoghton went into exile in 1569, having re-built Hoghton Tower 1560-1565.

Note: There is a Master Richard de Hoghton 1290-1316, Sheriff of Lancaster 1282, 1291 & 1301 mentioned in the brochure as a predecessor of this Richard. May have been an uncle
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Sibyll de Lea and Sir Richard Houghton
See the accounts of Lea and Hoghton. Free warren was granted in 1284; Chart. R. 12 Edw. I, m. 4, n. 22. In 1324 Sir Richard de Hoghton and Sibyl [de Lea] his wife held the manor of Raven Meols by a service of 16s. 4d. for all services without puture, bode, or witness; Dods. MS. cxxxi, fol. 36b. Richard and Sibyl had in 1317 demised for life all their demesne lands here, with pasture and turbary in Ince, to William de Dudley and Richard his son; Add. MS. 32106, n. 734.



Sir Adam de Hoghton contributed 10s. to the aid of 1378 for the moiety and tenth part of a knight's fee in Raven Meols and Ainsdale with the members; Harl. MS. 2085, fol. 421b.


In 1386, by a deed given at Raven Meols Sir Richard de Hoghton gave the manor to Henry his brother, son of Sir Adam, to hold during the life of Sir Adam's widow Ellen; Add. MS. 32106, n. 26.


In the Feodary of 1489 Alexander de Hoghton is stated to hold Raven Meols and Ainsdale for 16s. 8d. yearly; Duchy of Lanc. Misc. Vols. cxxx, fol. xjb. In subsequent inq. p.m. the tenure of these manors is described as the tenth part of a knight's fee
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Sibyll de Lee Birth 1263 in Banastre, Cheshire, , England
Sybell de Lea  Birth Abt 1263 AKA Sibyll del Lee Died date unknown, Europe: Royal and Noble Houses with Colonial American Connections
Father
William de Lea, d. Yes, date unknown
Mother
Clemence de Banastre, b. Abt 1240, d. 1290
Family
Sir Richard de Hoghton, d. 1340
Children
1. Sibilla de Hoghton, b. Abt 1308, d. date unknown
2. Katherine de Houghton, b. Abt 1310, d. date unknown
3. Adam Hoghton, d. date unknown
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Agatha Vernon 1278-1350

Agatha de Vernon
Sir Hugh de Venables, Knight, Baron of Kinderton, son and heir of William, died 4 Edward III, married Agatha, daughter of Sir Ralph de Vernon, baron of Shipbrook,  Edward I. Ormerod: The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester Vol III pp. 47, 51, 133

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Agatha de VernonBirth Abt 1278,  Died date unknown, Europe: Royal and Noble Houses (predominantly England and France)
Father Ralph de Vernon, b. Abt 1250, of, Shipbrook, Cheshire, England , d. date unknown
Mother Mary Dacre, b. Abt 1260, d. date unknown
Family
Hugh de Venables, Baron of Kinderton, b. Abt 1270, d. 1311, of, Kinderton, Cheshire, England
Children 1. Alice de Venables, d. date unknown
2. Hugh de Venables, b. 1296, d. 1367/1368, of, Kinderton, Cheshire, England
3. Isabel Venables, b. Abt 1300, d. date unknown
4. Mary Venables, b. Abt 1305, d. date unknown
5. William Venables, d. date unknown
6. Reginald Venables, d. date unknown
7. Roger Venables, d. date unknown
8. John Venables, d. date unknown
9. Elizabeth Venables, d. date unknown
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Hugh de Venables 1270-1311

Hugh de Venables, Baron of Kinderton, Abt 1270 - 1311
Suffix Baron of Kinderton Birth Abt 1270, Died 1311 of, Kinderton, Cheshire, England
Europe: Royal and Noble Houses (predominantly England and France)
Father Sir William Venables, b. Abt 1245, d. 1292, of, Kinderton, Cheshire, England
Mother Margaret Dutton, b. Abt 1248, d. date unknown Family ID F26464 Group Sheet
Family
Agatha Vernon, b. Abt 1278, d. date unknown
Children
1. Alice de Venables, d. date unknown
2. Hugh de Venables, b. 1296, d. 1367/1368, of, Kinderton, Cheshire, England
3. Isabel Venables, b. Abt 1300, d. date unknown
4. Mary Venables, b. Abt 1305, d. date unknown
5. William Venables, d. date unknown
6. Reginald Venables, d. date unknown
7. Roger Venables, d. date unknown
8. John Venables, d. date unknown
9. Elizabeth Venables, d. date unknown
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NAME ORIGIN VENABLES
This interesting name is of Norman-French, origin, and is a locational surname from the place called "Venables" in the arrondissement of Louviers, in Eure, Normandy. The surname was introduced into England by followers of William the Conqueror after the Conquest of 1066. The placename is derived from the Latin word "venabulum", hunting ground, a derivative of the verb "venari", to hunt. The surname was first recorded in the beginning of the 13th Century (see below), and the modern surname has the unusual distinction of surviving unchanged for seven hundred years. One William de Venables is recorded in the Shropshire Hundred Rolls of 1275, and Thomas Venables, of Buckinghamshire, appears in the Register of the University of Oxford for 1616. The marriage of William Venables and Margaret Bryan was recorded at St. Gregory by St. Paul, London, on April 19th 1573. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William de Venables, which was dated circa 1200, in the "Chartulary of Whalley Abbey", Lancashire, during the reign of King John, known as "Lackland", 1199 - 1216.

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Hugh Venables was the Sheriff of Cheshire.

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Katherine de Houghton 1310-1368

Katherine de Houghton

Birth Abt 1310 

Died date unknown,

Europe: Royal and Noble Houses (predominantly England and France) 

Father Sir Richard de Hoghton, d. 1340

Mother Sybell de Lea, b. Abt 1263, d. date unknown
Family

Hugh de Venables, b. 1296, d. 1367/1368, of, Kinderton, Cheshire, England

Children

1. Joan de Venables, b. Abt 1328, d. date unknown

2. Hugh de Venables, baron of Kinderton, b. Abt 1330, of, Kinderton, Cheshire, England , d. 1379/1380, of, Kinderton, Cheshire, England
3. Richard Venables, b. Abt 1345, d. date unknown
4. Thomas Venables, d. date unknown
5. Roger Venables, d. date unknown
Sources
The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, Watney, Vernon James, (4 volumes. Oxford: John Johnson, 1928), FHL book Q 929.242 W159w; FHL microfilm 1696491 it., vol. 3 p. 792.
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Houghton / Hoghton Family
"There will be found many errors in dates because the different records often do not agree and there is no possible way of reconciling them. ... [T]he name Houghton, originally DeHocton, is supposed to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon word Hocton or Hoctune, signifying "Hightown" or "High Place" and was taken from one of the manors of the family in Lancashire, England, remarkable for its lofty situation. The possessor of this estate, Willus de Hocton, or ... Willus Dominus de Hocton, assumed the name of this manor about the year 1140. He was the first to bear it. ... the later style ... De Hoghton. The "de" was first omitted about the year 1458 by Sir Henry or ... his son, Sir William Hoghton about ... 1483." It is claimed that the "u" was introduced by those who settled in America. --- J. W. Houghton in The Houghton Genealogy
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Titles and Property Expansion , Chestershire, England
Katherine De Houghton, born Abt. 1310 in Houghton, Lancashire, England. She was the daughter of Richard Houghton and Sibyll Del Lee.

Notes for Sir Knight Hugh De Venables 9th Baron Of Kinderton:
Sir Hugh Venables, son and heir, married 1st Elizabeth Mobberly and by her had one son, William, who died in the lifetime of his father in 1350. Married 2nd Katherine Houghton, daughter of Richard Houghton of County Lancaster. Richard Houghton was descended from Roger de Busli or Bussell, who lived in time of William the Conqueror, whose granddaughter received from her father two Caracutes of land in Hoton or Hocton and Echilstone or Eccleston in frank marriage to Hamo Pincera. Richard de Houghton was fifth in descent from them and he was retained Knight of the Shire for Lancaster County and died 14 of Edward III in 1340. He increased his estate not a little by means of a wife, Sibyll, daughter and heiress of William de Lea, who had received from his wife, Clementine, daughter of Richard Banistre, the Manor of Mollington Banistre in Chestershire.
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Richard Houghton, Birth 1260 in Banastre, Cheshire, , England

Sir Richard Houghton, Died 1340, Europe: Royal and Noble Houses with Colonial American Connections
Father Sir Adam de Hoghton, d. date unknown
Mother Avicia de Howicke, d.date unknown
Family
Sybell de Lea, b. Abt 1263, d. date unknown
Children
1. Sibilla de Hoghton, b. Abt 1308, d. date unknown
2. Katherine de Houghton, b. Abt 1310, d. date unknown
3. Adam Hoghton, d. date unknown
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Houghton Tower, Preston, Lancashire, England

Hoghton Tower, Hoghton, Chorley, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
Birthplace of Katherine de Houghton

 Hoghton Tower is fortified manor house in the Borough of Chorley to the east of Preston in Lancashire. It has been the ancestral home of the De Hoghton family since the time of William the Conqueror. It features a mile long driveway to the main gates. The original driveway extended far further and the cost of lining it with red carpet for the arrival of King James I of England nearly bankrupted the family. The Hoghton family has been at Hoghton since the 12th century, but the dramatic manor house that you can see today is primarily a product of the mid-Tudor period. The house is built in an elongated figure-8, encompassing two inner courtyards entered through a fiercely castellated gatehouse. Source: Photograph by Lancashire County Council

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/photographs/historic/Gallery3/index.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoghton_Tower
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