Early Storeys and their Ancient Homes.

a week or two; on the contrary, it means slow and determined plodding, an ever increasing correspondence, incessant and untiring research, and, above all, immense tact, for the descendants of "the grand old gardener and his wife" will neither be coerced nor hurried. Those who are not prepared to face all this in the devious realm of genealogy will do well to leave it severely alone, or at any rate to delegate the work to some one else in whom they have confidence, some one who loves the work, and therefore does not follow it from that vilest of motives, viz., a sordid one.

It is evident that the Storeys settled in the border country across from coast to coast, from the neighbourhood of Eskdale right away into the Ainwick and Newcastle districts. Jordanus le Stori would doubtless be a direct descendant of Stor or Stori, the Scandinavian who came from Norway and settled in the valley of the Esk. Probably he was the Christian descendant of Styr (Saxon for Stor), who, in the year 999, gave the manor of Durham with other places to the Abbot of Lindisfarne. Here is the extract from "Symeonis Dunelmensis," vol. i., pp. 150 and 154:- "In Nomine Dei Summi et Individuae Trinitatis, Ego, Styr, filius Ulfr impetravi a domino meo, Ethelredo, rege ut daret Sancto Cuthberto villam quae vocatur Dearthington, cum sacca et socna et ego emi propria pecunia et dedi sancto Cuthberto iiij carrucatus terræ in Cingescliff, et iiij in Cocertune et iiij in Halhtune et iij in Northmannabi et ij in Cealthune cum saca et socna, et ij in Lumalea sub testimonia Ethelredi regis et Elfrici, Archiepiscopi Eboracensis et Aldun episcopi Lindispharnensis et Alfwoldi Abbatis qui sub episcopo erat et illorum omnium principium qui ea die in Eboraca civitate cum rege fuerunt quod si quis de his aliquid sancti confessoris abstulerit, recipiat hanc maledictionem in die Judicii. Discedite a me, maledicti in ignem æternum."

Dearthington, sometimes written also Dearnington, denotes Darlington, Cingescliffe-Coniscliff, Halhtune, Haughton le Skerne, Ceathune, Seaton, Northmannaby, Normanby and Lumalea, Lumley.

From "The Border Papers," first collected together by order of the Commissioner of Public Records, and bound in seventy-four volumes as a separate class in the year 1840, I take various items covering the periods 1560 to 1594, and 1595 to 1603.

The question as to "debateable land," and what it signifies, land causing such severe feuds and so much bad blood, extending from one generation to another, will be discussed presently.

From page 105 of vol. i. is taken the names of the Marches with a note of the gentlemen and surnames in the Marches of both England and Scotland.

In the East, Marshes; England: Forsters, Selbies, Graies, Strowders, Swiners, Mustians; Surnames: Johnsons, Vardes, Ourders, Wallisses, Stories, Armstrongs, Dunnes, Flukes; Scotland: Gentlemen, Humes, Trotters, Bromfields, Dixons, Crawes, Crinstones.

West, Marches; England: Gentlemen, Musgraves, Loders, Curwenes, Sawfeldes; Surnames, Greams, Rutliches, Armstrongs, Fosters, Nixons, Tailors, Stories. Scotland: Maxwells, Johnsons, Urwins, Grames, Carlills, Battisons, Litles and Carruders.

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