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. 1