General Notes

SOURCES: LDS FHL #     (familysearch.org)
AWTP:
"Gary Lewis Family Tree" Gary Lewis garynlewis1144@@yahoo.com
"Ancestors of a 21st century British family" Richard Hodgson mail@@ancestorsearch.co.uk (who has generously shared the following research information at AWTP):

"Laxton or Lexington, three miles south by west of Tuxford, and five miles east of Ollerton, is a considerable village on a pleasant declivity, celebrated for having given the title of baron to a family of its own name, and afterwards to the Suttons of Averham. Before the Norman invasion it belonged to Tochi, and was afterwards part of the fee of Goisford de Alselin, which was in the reign of Henry I, divided into two great baronies possessed by Ralph de Alselin of Shelford, and Robert de Caux of Lexington."
"In the 12th year of the reign of Henry II, Robert de Caux, Lord of Laxton, a farmer under the crown, answers for £20; and in the i5th Henry II. Reginald de Laci for the same sum, "pro censu forestae" under Robert Fitz-Ralph, then sheriffs In "the Forest book" is preserved a copy of a charter which was granted by John, Earl of Mortyn, afterwards King of England, to Matilda de Caux and Ralph Fitz-Stephen her husband, confirming to them and her heirs the office of chief foresters in the counties of Nottingham and Derby, and of all the liberties and free customs which any of the ancestors of the said Matilda had ever held.
This lady died in 8th Henry III. A.D. 1223, and was buried, it seems, at the church of Brampton, near Chesterfield, where Adam Fitz-Peter her first husband had a manor."