Storeys of Old.

In the Liber Curia, 33rd and 34th Elizabeth, 1591-2, there appears nothing appertaining to the Stories. The same Court Book, for 1711 and 1715, contains these items :-

January 19th, 1715, Stainton, Westlinton, Received of Richard Story in money 62l. 14s. 04d., and in his year's sallery 2l. upon account of rents in his collection att Martinmas last. 62l. 14s. 40d. more of him for halfe a year's rent for Burgh demesne, one due also li 17 10s. 00d.

The freeholders in Burgh, in 1711, were Thomas Story, clericus, for lands in ffurness ffields.

Johes Story, son of Thomas Story.
Thomas Story, junior.
John, son of Thomas Story, is a freeholder in Little Bampton.

In the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archæological Society's Transactions, vol. IV. - Bishop Nicholson's Diary - is the following:- "Mr. Story removeing to Burgh, September 8th, 1708. Son costs him 40l. per annum at Queen's College, Oxford, where he was 'pauper puer'- an undergraduate being thus named.

Richard Story, of Markistowne, in Rockcliffe (1689), appears synonymous with the Richard Story in the pedigree "Story of the Lake" in Kirklinton, son of Christopher Story and Bridget, née Graham.

Thomas Story who held land in Crooks in 1711, and ffrancis Story of Westlinton, his brother, described in the Lake pedigree as of Angerton, were the sons of ffrancis Story and Isabella, née Graham, his wife. This ffrancis Story was Master of the Kirklinton Grammar School.

The present Rockcliffe Demesne Storys are descended from Thomas Story and Jane, née Macdougall, his wife. This Thomas Story was the son of Thomas Story and Mary, née Murray, the latter Thomas Story being the son of ffrancis Story, grandson of Thomas Story, cousin of Christopher Story, who married Mary, daughter of Christopher Graham.

Thomas Story, who is stated to have married Ann Kennedy alias Armstrong in the Lake pedigree, appears to have been married twice, as Jane . . . . is given in the Justice Town lineage. In such a labyrinth of branches, with very scant information available concerning them, it is not always easy to get the right descents.

Thomas Story, eldest son of Francis Story and Isabella, nee Graham, appears to have had a son John, a clerk, father of John and Thomas Story, of Dalston.

Taken from Welford's "Newcastle and Gateshead," 1885, is the following:-

"Bawge Store, novice," was one of the White or Carmelite Friars whose House in Newcastle surrendered on the loth January, 1539. His signature appears on the Deed of Surrender, p. 169, Vol. II.