MANORIAL HERITAGE REGISTRY CONVEYANCE & DESCENT HISTORY ============================================================================ ALETHORPE MANOR Public record: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_manor=alethorpe-manor Exported: 17 October 2026, 22:53 GMT+0000 Recorded historical holders: 4 Location: Alethorpe, Norfolk SUCCESSION REGISTER | EARLIEST RECORDED TO PRESENT ============================================================================ Relationships below reproduce saved published paths; unrecorded routes are not inferred. 1. Earl Harold, Earl of Wessex, King Harold II of England from January 1066 | 1066 - 1066 Transfer: Held immediately before the Norman Conquest; no separate conveyance is recorded in the source used. Holding arrangement: Entire recorded estate Profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=harold-earl-of-wessex-27817 Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 2. King William I, King of England, 1066-1087, Duke of Normandy, King of England (1066-1087) | 1086 - 1086 Transfer: The estate appears in the Domesday survey in the royal holding after the Norman Conquest; the precise legal mechanism of transfer from Earl Harold is not stated in the cited source. Holding arrangement: Entire recorded estate / Royal holding Profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=william-i-of-england-14671 Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 3. William Dye | circa 1580 - 1604 Transfer: Acquisition and the precise nature of the interest are unknown. The evidence places William Dye as the landlord or manorial demesne holder involved in Alethorpe disputes, but does not document a conveyance to him or establish that he held every component of the manor. Holding arrangement: Other / Unspecified manorial or demesne interest; extent not established Profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=william-dye-27818 Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 4. Sir Lawrence John Jones, Baronet, of Cranmer Hall | 1896 - 1912 Transfer: The transfer from the preceding holder is not identified in the sources consulted. By 1896 the directory explicitly records Sir Lawrence John Jones of Cranmer Hall as lord of the manor and sole landowner; the same status is repeated in the 1904 and 1912 directory evidence. Holding arrangement: Entire recorded manor and sole landownership as described by the directory / Jones family of Cranmer Hall Profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=sir-lawrence-john-jones-baronet-27819 Relationship to present holder: Not recorded DETAILED CONVEYANCE HISTORIES AND LINKED PEDIGREES ============================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 1 | 1066 - 1066 Earl Harold, Earl of Wessex, King Harold II of England from January 1066 Person: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=harold-earl-of-wessex-27817 Transfer: Held immediately before the Norman Conquest; no separate conveyance is recorded in the source used. Holding arrangement: sole Share / interest: Entire recorded estate Narrative / explanation: Domesday-derived evidence identifies Alethorpe, recorded as Alatorp, as held by Earl Harold in 1066. This is evidence of the pre-Conquest lordship, not a documented private conveyance. Source citation: Open Domesday, Alethorpe, TF9431, summarising Domesday Book evidence for the pre-Conquest and 1086 lords. Source URL: https://opendomesday.org/place/TF9431/alethorpe/ Other parties: Earl Harold Historical person profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=harold-earl-of-wessex-27817 Person dates: died 1066 Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 2 | 1086 - 1086 King William I, King of England, 1066-1087, Duke of Normandy, King of England (1066-1087) Person: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=william-i-of-england-14671 Transfer: The estate appears in the Domesday survey in the royal holding after the Norman Conquest; the precise legal mechanism of transfer from Earl Harold is not stated in the cited source. Previous holder: Earl Harold Holding arrangement: sole Share / interest: Entire recorded estate Shared holding: Royal holding Narrative / explanation: Alethorpe was recorded in Domesday Book as Alatorp, with King William both tenant-in-chief and immediate lord in 1086. The entry records the royal holding but does not supply a detailed conveyance or intervening feudal tenant. Source citation: Open Domesday, Alethorpe, TF9431, summarising the Domesday Book entry and identifying King William as tenant-in-chief and lord in 1086. Source URL: https://opendomesday.org/place/TF9431/alethorpe/ Other parties: King William I Previous holder profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=harold-earl-of-wessex-27817 Historical person profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=william-i-of-england-14671 Person dates: c.1028-1087 Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 3 | circa 1580 - 1604 William Dye Person: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=william-dye-27818 Transfer: Acquisition and the precise nature of the interest are unknown. The evidence places William Dye as the landlord or manorial demesne holder involved in Alethorpe disputes, but does not document a conveyance to him or establish that he held every component of the manor. Holding arrangement: other Share / interest: Unspecified manorial or demesne interest; extent not established Narrative / explanation: Research on the Alethorpe enclosure disputes identifies William Dye as the landlord in proceedings concerning a thirty-acre croft, the manor's foldcourse, enclosure, common rights, and sheep pasture in 1580. A further petition by the poor inhabitants of Alethorpe in 1604 complained of Dye's treatment of their common and cultivated land. These sources directly link Dye to the Alethorpe manorial economy and demesne, but the surviving evidence located does not prove a complete legal title to the manor or specify the transfer by which he acquired his interest. Source citation: David Belcher, “The Chiefest Wealth of Our Country”: Land, Lordship and Rural Society in Norfolk, doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia, discussion of Alethorpe and William Dye, citing A. Hassell Smith and G. M. Baker, The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, volume II, Norfolk Record Society XLIX (1982), pp. 131, 152; and related enclosure evidence. Source URL: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/59229/1/Belcher_-__combined_files.pdf Other parties: William Dye Historical person profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=william-dye-27818 Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 4 | 1896 - 1912 Sir Lawrence John Jones, Baronet, of Cranmer Hall Person: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=sir-lawrence-john-jones-baronet-27819 Transfer: The transfer from the preceding holder is not identified in the sources consulted. By 1896 the directory explicitly records Sir Lawrence John Jones of Cranmer Hall as lord of the manor and sole landowner; the same status is repeated in the 1904 and 1912 directory evidence. Holding arrangement: sole Share / interest: Entire recorded manor and sole landownership as described by the directory Shared holding: Jones family of Cranmer Hall Narrative / explanation: Late Victorian and Edwardian directory evidence directly identifies Sir Lawrence John Jones, baronet, of Cranmer Hall, as lord of the manor and sole landowner of Alethorpe. The 1896 entry describes Alethorpe as a former extra-parochial tract and then a parish consisting of one farm; the 1904 and 1912 evidence repeats Jones's lordship and sole landownership. No conveyance, inheritance instrument, or date of acquisition was located, so the earlier descent into the Jones family remains an unbridged gap. Source citation: Kelly's Directory of Norfolk, 1896, Alethorpe entry; Kelly's Directory of Norfolk, 1904, Alethorpe entry; Kelly's Directory of Norfolk, 1912, Alethorpe entry. Source URL: https://www.scribd.com/document/443191887/Kelly-s-Directory-Norfolk-1896 Other parties: Sir Lawrence John Jones, Baronet Historical person profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=sir-lawrence-john-jones-baronet-27819 Relationship paths: No published path recorded. END OF EXPORTED APPROVED CONVEYANCE HISTORY