VERNOUN

WILLIAM DE VERNON, who assumed that surname from the town and district of Vernon, in Normandy, of which he was proprietor in 1052, had two sons, RICHARD DE VERNON, and WALTER DE VERNON, who both came into England with WILLIAM the Conqueror. The elder, RICHARD, Lord of Vernon, was one of the barons created by Hugh Lupus, Earl of the County Palatine of Chester, by the title of Baron of Shipbroke. This Richard, who, according to Domesday-Book, was a considerable landed proprietor, was s. at his decease by his eldest son, WILLIAM DE VERNON, whose great-grandson, RICHARD DE VERNON, had a grant, in the 37th of HENRY III., of the castle and manor of Pecke; and dying before his father, left four sons, whereof

WARINE, who s. his grandfather as Baron of Shipbroke, m. Auda, dau. and co-heir of William Malbank, Baron of wich-Malbank, now Namptwich, co. Chester, with whom he acquired several manors in that shire, and by whom he had two sons, Warine and Ralph. He was s. by the elder.

WARINE, Baron of Shipbroke, who m. Margaret dau. of Ralph de Andeville, and relict of Hugh de Altaribus, by whom be had a son, WARINE, (who d.s.p.) and three daughters, his co-heirs, viz.,

MARGERY, m. to Richard de Wilbraham.
EDITH, m. to Sir William Stafford, Knt.
ROHESIA, m. to John Littlebury.

These ladies, after a prolonged litigation with their uncle, RALPH, were obliged to surrender to him a moiety of their patrimony. The son of this Ralph, Sir Ralph de Vernon, is said to have lived to the age of 150, and thence was generally called the OLD LIVER,

And

SIR WILLIAM DE VERNON, Knt., of Harlaston, in the co. of Stafford (the 3rd son), was chief-justice of Chester in the reign of Henry III. He m. Alice, dau. and co-heiress of William de Avenel, of Haddon, co. Derby, and was s. by his son, RICHARD DE VERNON, Lord of Haddon in right of his mother. He m. Margaret, dau. of Robert, Baron of Stockport, and acquired by her the manor of Appleby-Parva, and the advowson of Appleby-Magna, in Leicestershire. From this Richard descended the VERNONS of Haddon, Hodnet, Houndshill, Sudbury, and Hilton.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey Roll)