General Notes

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2  SOUR S332582
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4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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Orme de Davenport assumed the local name of Davenport when the village was granted to him by Gilbert Venables, who had received a grant of it from William, the Conqueror, in 1086. He was witness to a charter of enfranchisement by Gilbert Venables in the time of William II (called Rufus, the Red) and Henry I, both sons of the Conqueror. The manorial history of the present township of Davenport, in Cheshire, involves a subject of rare occurrence even in Cheshire, the descent of a family in the male line from the Norman Conquest of the Palatinate, possessing at the present day the feudal powers which the local sovereign of that Palatinate invested it. And preserving its own archives, in a series of original documents, the proof of its ancient importance and its unbroken descent.