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is " Grenhilington." This appears to be " green-hill-ing-ton " ; but if, as I under- stand, hill is Anglo-Saxon, and ing is Scandi- navian, this combination can scarcely be right. The place was certainly occupied by Norse Wickings, who made their way up the Ribble Valley, presumably about A.D. 900. Field- and farm-names are con- clusive on this point. We have such names as Grain, Farlands, Withens, Holme, Ing, Greaves, Lumb, Micklehurst, Steelands.

Will PROF. SKEAT be so kind as to state whether a Norse derivation is permissible, and to analyze the name, now that " green- dale-ton " proves inadmissible ?

FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

Grindleton, Clitheroe.

WENTWORTH OF PONTEFRACT. Flower, Norroy King, in his ' Visitation of Yorkshire,' 1563 (Harl/MSS. publ.), records that Roger Wentworth of Hangthwaite and South Kirkby, co. York (son of Thomas Wentworth of North Elmsall), married Elizabeth, daughter of John Wentworth of Pontefract, and had by her a son Thomas of Thurnscoe Grange, who had, with other issue, a son Hugh and a daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Day. Hugh's granddaughter Mary (daughter of Thomas) also became in 1631 the wife of Thomas Day of South Elmsall. Flower gives the descent of Roger Went- worth from his great-grandfather John, son of John Wentworth of North Elmsall ; the last had also two younger sons, Richard of Bretton, and Roger. No issue of the third son Roger is recorded, but Richard had a son Richard, who had three sons, Matthew, John, and William. Genealogists have differed in their accounts of the parent- age of John Wentworth of Pontefract. Foster, in his ' Pedigrees of Yorkshire Families,' is vague on this point, merely stating, like Flower, that Roger Wentworth married Elizabeth, daughter of John Went- worth of Pontefract, and that the second Richard Wentworth of West Bretton had with other issue a son John, living 1488; but he also adds (which Flower omits) that Sir Roger Wentworth of Nettlestead, Essex, one of the three sons of John of North Elmsall, had a son Sir Philip of Nettlestead, who was father of Sir Henry of Pontefract, who had by his wife Elizabeth Nevil (m. 1494) several children, not one of whom bore the name of John. Rutten, in his ' Family of Wentworth,' deals chiefly with the Essex and Cambridgeshire branches of the family, and records that Sir Henry Wentworth (d. 1499) married two wives: (1) Anne Say

(d. 1478), by whom he was father of Sir Richard of Nettlestead and Edward of Henston ; and (2) Elizabeth Nevil (d. 1515), who had no issue by him. While differing as to who was the mother of Sir Henry's children, Foster and Rutten agree that he had no son John.

It would appear, therefore, that the John Wentworth of Pontefract, whose daughter Elizabeth married Roger Wentworth, was the son of Richard Wentworth of West Bretton, an estate situated about half way between Barnsley and Huddersfield, were it not for the facts that, in a seventeenth- century pedigree of Day of Elmsall, Thomas Wentworth of Thurnscoe Grange, son of Roger Wentworth of Hangthwaite and South Kirkby, is recorded as having in- herited property at Pontefract from his maternal grandfather John Wentworth, who had inherited it from his mother Elizabeth Wentworth, formerly Nevil ; and also that by a deed of 1557 Elizabeth, wife of Roger Wentworth of South Kirkby, became possessed of property at the same place formerly belonging to her uncle Richard Wentworth of Nettlestead, Essex. It is clear from this that Sir Henry Went- worth of Pontefract had issue besides that given by Foster and Rutten, and that John Wentworth of Pontefract was his son by his second wife.

The question arises whether all Sir Henry's children were by his first or second wife, or whether he had issue by both, and also what other issue he had. A careful examination of dates seems to suggest that Sir Richard of Nettlestead (whose wife died 1502) and Edward of Henston were by the first wife, and John of Pontefract (and perhaps others) by the second wife. Infor- mation on these points would be thank- fully accepted by me. CHARLES FILEY.

SIR SAMUEL MORLAND. What became of Sir Samuel, the second baronet ? Did he marry and leave descendants ?

(Mrs.) HAUTENVILLE COPE. Sulhamstead, Reading.

SANDERSON OF GREAT BRADLEY, SUFFOLK. Any information regarding this family would be most acceptable to the undersigned. They were settled in Suffolk in 1626, for in that year administration of the goods of Martin Sanderson of Great Bradley was granted to Agnes his wife (P.C.C.).

Mary Sanderson of Great Bradley paid for three hearths in 1676 ; and I find that the will of William Sanderson of Great