General Notes

SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File #     (familysearch.org)
AWTP:
"Families of Sequoyah County,OK & Others" Sharen Neal MJR6387@@aol.com (with excerpts below from research generally contributed at AWTP):

"Of Ferrieres ,Fr and Lechlade, Gloucester, ENG. Henry Ferrers, son of Walchelin, assumed the name from Ferriers, a small town of Gastinois, in France, otherwise called Ferrieres, from the iron mines with which that country abounded, and, in allusion to the circumstance, he bore for his arms "six horses' shoes," either from the similitude of his cognomen to the French Ferrier, or because the seigneurie produced iron, so essential to the soldier and cavalier in those rude times when war was esteemed the chief business of life, and the adroit management of the steed, even amongst the nobility, the first of accomplishments. Henry de Ferrers came into England with the Conqueror and obtained a grant of Tutbury Castle, in the count y of Stafford. According to Stapleton, he was ancestor of the Oakham house of Ferrers, whose memory is preserved by the horseshoes hanging in the hall of their castle."
"He was the founder of the Cluniac priory at Tutbu y which he liberally endowed. By Berta his wife he had issue, Egenulph, d. v. p.; William, d . v. p.; Robert, his successor; Gundred; and Emmeline. [Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Pe erages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 196, Ferrers, Earls of Derby].... (The)  name of Henry de Ferrers occurs in Domesday Book, and from that record he appears to have had vast possessions, the greater part of which was parcelled out amongst his retainers. Henry's chief seat was Tutbury Cas le in Staffordshire, but his most extensive territorial grants were in the adjoining county of Derby. Accompanied William the Conqueror in his conquest of England. [Roll of Battle Abbey]",
Sire de Ferrieres and Chambrais in Normandy; Domesday commissioner; held at date of Survey 21 0 lordships or manors, more than half of which were in co. Derby, but, caput of honour was a t Tutbury; founded priory for Benedictine monks; d. 1088, bur. Tutbury; son of Walkelin, Sir e de Ferrieres & Chambrais; m. Bertha, Dame de Ferriers. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 2954]
"For his distinguished services at Hastings, William the Conqueror gave him more than 180 lord ships in a dozen counties. Henry appears on the Roll of Battle Abbey, a list of principal com manders and companions in arms of William the Conqueror, and was the first of the family who settled in England, which he did following the Conquest.
When the General Survey of the Realm was recorded for the purpose of taxation in the Domes day Book on the order of King William I in 1086, the 19th year of his reign, this Henry de Ferrers was one of the commissioners appointed to that great company. That he was a person of much eminence there is no doubt. Otherwise, it is not likely that he would have been entrusted in so high and weighty an employment."