A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
erty at Kexbyand Willingham belonged, many centuriesback, to the Eastlands, from whom it de-scended to the Hawkesmores, ofTresswell,in Notts, who willed it to Anne Hurt, thewife of Thomas Waterhouse, esq. of Beck-ingham. Tresswell, Notts, the ancient seatof the Hawksmores. Seats—Grebby Hall, near… … This family, of importance for severalcenturies in tlie county of Salop, is pre- sumed to have taken itg surname from thevillage of Mitton, in the parish of Fitz,about four miles from the town of Shrews-bury. The name occurs in old records,spelt differently, Mitton, Motton, Mutton,and Mytton, and…
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