The primary source which confirms his parentage has not yet been identified. Domesday Descendants comments that he was "probably son of Ingenulf…since [he] is frequently remembered in the Ferrers confirmations for Tutbury".... The corresponding charters have not been identified in the selection of Tutbury charters included in Dugdale’s Monasticon. The Complete Peerage cites a manuscript transcript of the Tutbury cartulary.... The 1130 Pipe Roll records "Henr de Ferrar" in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire. He held land at Lechlade, Gloucestershire and Oakham, Rutland.
The name of Henry's wife is not known. 1