Wollaston

Claim

Manor & Lordship

Manor / site: Unknown
Associated lordship: Lordship of Wollaston Associated
Lordship status: Unknown

Location: Staffordshire

Places / associated places: Staffordshire

Listed in Domesday Book: Yes

About the Manor

The Lordship of Wollaston in the East Cuttlestone Hundred of Staffordshire is recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086. Members of the Wollaston family held the lordship for centuries until it passed to the Astons.

Sir Walter Aston was lord of the manor in 1574, when he made a settlement of the lordship on the marriage of his son, Edward to Mary, daughter of Sir John Spencer. Sir Edward died in 1587 and the lordship passed to his son Sir Walter Aston, who conveyed the manor to William Wollaston, the son of Henry Wollaston Citizen of London and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Drapers.

William Wollaston died in the year of the Great Fire 1666. The lordship stayed in the Wollaston family until it again came into the possession of the Astons. George Aston was lord of the manor in 1774. From the Astons the lordship was acquired by an ancestor of the present lord of the manor, the Earl of Lichfield.

Associated manorial documents / archive references

1 Court Barron papers 1593, 1598, 1623
2 Court Roll with Forebridge 1472-74
3 Court Roll with other townships 1499-1503

Ownership / Holder Account

Historical holder / succession information

Astons
passed_to · historical_holder_or_transferee
Source wording: Members of the Wollaston family held the lordship for centuries until it passed to the Astons.
Members of the Wollaston family
held_manor · historical_holder_or_transferee
Source wording: Members of the Wollaston family held the lordship for centuries until it passed to the Astons.
Sir Walter Aston
1574 · lord_of_manor · historical_holder_or_transferee
Source wording: Sir Walter Aston was lord of the manor in 1574, when he made a settlement of the lordship on the marriage of his son, Edward to Mary, daughter of Sir John Spencer.
his son Sir Walter Aston [source claim requiring identity review]
1587 · passed_to · historical_holder_or_transferee
Source wording: Sir Edward died in 1587 and the lordship passed to his son Sir Walter Aston, who conveyed the manor to William Wollaston, the son of Henry Wollaston Citizen of London and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Drapers.
Astons
passed_to · historical_holder_or_transferee
Source wording: The lordship stayed in the Wollaston family until it again came into the possession of the Astons.
George Aston
1774 · lord_of_manor · historical_holder_or_transferee
Source wording: George Aston was lord of the manor in 1774.
an ancestor of the present lord of the manor, the Earl of Lichfield [source claim requiring identity review]
purchased_by · historical_holder_or_transferee
Source wording: From the Astons the lordship was acquired by an ancestor of the present lord of the manor, the Earl of Lichfield.

Conveyance & Descent

First holder to present holder: blood proximity & distance travelled

First recorded holder: Astons

Present holder:

Recorded title journey: 5 holder entries in this manor's saved Conveyance & Descent history.

No recorded holder currently has a usable saved direct-blood or collateral-blood relationship path from which to calculate proximity percentages.

First recorded holder → present holder

A usable saved blood relationship path between the first recorded holder and the present holder has not yet been recorded, so that first-to-present genealogical distance cannot be calculated.

Astons

Transfer: passed_to

Source role: historical_holder_or_transferee. Members of the Wollaston family held the lordship for centuries until it passed to the Astons.