Storeys of Old.

Mr. Albert Storey was for some time organist of Hibaldstow and Holton Parish Church (Co. Lincoln), also superintendent of the Church Sunday School. It may be added that Mr. A. Storey is an excellent raconteur, and in nigger troupe organization quite an expert.

A pedigree-proof was forwarded to him on March 30th, 1910, but it came back, the postal authorities being unable to find the address Mr. Storey had removed to. Application to various sources failed to elicit the new address required until the spring of 1912, when Mr. Storey certified his lineage as correct.

The Storeys who settled in California and their descendants, as the subsidiary lineage shows, are connected by marriage with the Machell family, whose name Machell, is a contraction of Malus Catullus. The old home of this reputedly Roman family is Crackenthorpe, a village two miles north-west of Appleby. An old historian says:- "The Machells were resident here longer than any one family of note at any other place in the same county." They are descended from the Catuli of the Ancient Romans. Many years back their estates were sold to the Earl of Lonsdale. The Rev. Thomas Machell, A.M., Rector of Kirkby There, was a member of this family. It was he who, from the time when he first entered into the University up to the period of his demise, collected materials for a history of Westmorland and Cumberland, and left the whole of the MSS. to Dr. Nicholson, Bishop of Carlisle from 1702 to 1718. Bishop Nicholson bound the MSS. in six volumes folio. The papers were eventually concentrated in the "History and Antiquities of Cumberland and Westmorland," published by Joseph Nicholson, of Hawkshead, and Dr. Burn, in two volumes, 4to, in 1777. Machell has been spelt many ways in the course of ages. There are Mauchael, Malchael and Matalael, corruptions of Malus Catullus, which literally signifies the bewitching hound. (The arms of the family are composed of sable, three grey hounds, courant, in pale argent. coloured, or.) Rogerus Malus Catulus, according to Holinshed's Chronicles of England, was Vice-Chancellor of England, temp. Richard I.; and Lingard's "History of England" states that Henry VI. took refuge in the house of John Machell, of Crackenthorpe after the battle of Hexham. 1464. In many of the early documents the name appears within the deed as Malus Catullus, and Machell on the seal. Roger Malus Catullus, Vice-Chancellor of England, was drowned at Cyprus, during the holy war. There is no more ancient family in the country than that of the Machells, possessing, as they do, authentic proofs of high antiquity. The Machells of Penny Bridge are a branch of the Crackenthorpe family. Mrs. Alice Gordon Greene, of Arroyes Terrace, Pasadena, Los Angeles, writing in the April of 1910, states that her "grandmother's brother, Robert Storey, came out to the United States in the early days, and went to California in 1849, during the 'gold fever,' and it may be that 'Storey County' is named after him."

[The Storys and Storeys who gave name to territory in Iowa and Nevada will be dealt with at the proper time and place.]

Mr. John Greenop, of Red Bank Cottage, Grasmere, Westmorland, writing on the 20th February, 1912, says:-

"The Storeys of Troutbeck and Ambleside claimed to be relations of ours through Mary Greenop, who married William Storey, and was the grandmother of Sir Thomas Storey. Jonathan Greenop, my great-great-grandfather, left Caldbeck some time in the seventeen fifties, which year I cannot say. His eldest child, John Greenop, who was my great-grandfather, was born at Holme Ground, near Coniston, in 1759, and his sister Mary was born at Low Birk How, in Little Langdale, in 1761. My great-grandfather, John Greenop, married a lady the name of Mary Coward on June 12th, 1784, at Grasmere Church. She was one of the Cowards of Hawkshead and Out-gate, who used to work the flag quarries near to Brathay. His sister, Mary Greenop, married a man named William Holmes at Grasmere Church, March 23rd, 1788. Jonathan Greenop died at Holme Ground some time between the birth of his two children; what became of his widow or where she died, I cannot say. Jonathan Greenop, when he first left Caldbeck, came to Ulpha in the Duddon Valley, and married a young person from there. He came to work at the mines or quarries. I do not know the name of the person he married, but I think she was the parson's daughter. After her marriage with my great-great-grandsire her father disinherited her, and when he died my great-grandfather was his heir. However, he was cut off with five pounds, and was too high-spirited to claim it - and I suppose the family of the donor will have it yet. John Greenop, whom you name as Sawyer, of Ambleside,