General Notes

The family of Morton derived it's surname from the Morton, (anciently written as Marton,) a hamlet in the parish of Harworth, in the confines of Nottinghamshire, at the utmost boundary whereof, near to Beutrey Town, in the Yorkshire, an hospital was founded by the Mortons and a chapel wherin they were buried, in consequence of which they were styled indifferently Beutrey or Morton.