General Notes

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2  PLAC 3006
2  SOUR S332582
3  DATA
4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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According to ""A Genalogy of the Southworths (Southards), by Samuel
G. Webber (1905) [GC 929.2 So 8766w] avail. at the Allen Co. Lib. in Ft.
Wayne, IN  :  (p 432)  He was the son of William II de Lancaster
(RIN 3007) and HELWISE DE STUTEVILLE (RIN 3008).  Webber also states that
he settled at French Lea on the Ribble and held English Lea, also. He was
living in 1208, was styled baron of Kendal and governor of Lancaster
castle.
   "Todd A. Farmerie" <taf2@@po.cwru.edu> on 17 Oct 1996 in an email
posting noted as follows:
   "I am entirely unfamiliar with this Henry de Lea, but
Lea/Leigh/Legh/Lee is one of the most common place names in England
(being the Anglo-Saxon word for a grassy field or something like that).
The inheriatance of the Barony of Kendal is well established, though, and
passed through daughter Helwise to her son William de Lancaster III."
   Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (88:27) tells us that the only child of
William de Lancaster and HELWISE DE STUTEVILLE was a daughter named
Helwise.  Clay's Early Yorkshire Charters volume on Stuteville says the
same.
   In light of the preponderance of evidence, I have elected not to show
Henry as the son of William and HELWISE.