Sir Robert de Haverington

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/HARRINGTON.htm Robert De HAVERINGTON

• Born: 1161, Haverington, Cumberland, England
• Died: 1235, Manor of Flemingby
• Father: Osulphus
• Mother: ¿?

Married: Christiana De WORKINGTON Children:

• 1. Thomas De HAVERINGTON
• 2. Son De HAVERINGTON

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This surname is spelled HARRINGTON Herrington, Erington,and Arrington in the early records of this country as well as of England and even at the present time this variation in spelling is found. The surname is of local origin, the final syllable indicating a town or village. There are parishes of Harrington at the present time in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire ; a parish of Arrington in Cambridge, for even in ancient days the Englishman dropped his "h's"—and in Yorkshire there is a parish of Errington. The family is large in England. An important branch has its origin in the parish of Errington and Beaufort, Northumberland, and bears arms : Argent two bars in chief three escallops azure. Crest : A cock gules combed and wattled sable. At Walwick Grange and High Warden, county Northumberland, a branch of this Errington family traces its descent from Gerard Errington, of Woolwick Grange, of the time of Henry VIII. The spelling Harrington is most favored in England as well as America. Many of them bore coats-of-arms. The Harringtons of Essex county : Sable a fret or ; the Harringtons at Harrington-Sibble, county Essex : Sable a fret argent charged with nine fleurs-de-lis gules ; and families bearing arms have lived or are living at Bangworth, county Leicester ; Hanwell, county Middlesex ; Stepney, county Middlesex; Bishton, county Salop; Kelston, county Somerset, and others.

The ancient family derives its name from their estates, a lordship in Cumberland. The first of the name was Robert de Haverington, son of Osulphus or Oswulf, who held the manor of Flemingby in the time of Richard I. His great-grandson, Robert de Haverington, in the reign of Edward I removed to Aldingham. county Lancashire, which was granted on his marriage with Agnes, sister and heir of Robert de Cancefield, its possessor, son of Robert de Cancefield by Alice his wife, sister and heir of Sir Michael Le Fleming, of Aldingham. Of this marriage there was issue, Robert de Harington (younger son), the probable ancestor of Robert Harrington, the emigrant ancestor, who settled in Watertown in 1642.

The Register of St Bees No 88, records this: "I, Robert de Haverington, with the consent of my wife, Christiana, have granted....to God and Saint Mary, to St Bege of Coupland and the Monks living there....the Church of Hafricton and duabus bovatis of land. (this would be what a pair of oxen could plow in two days, or about two acres.)