Research Notes:

Gilbert de Nocton, 1 m.; fourteen oxg. jure uxoris Edith de Barton in Worsley and Hulton, in thanage by 26s. (1201/2) ¹

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Gilbert de Notton holds with the lady of Barton the fee of one knight and a half of [Robert Gredle] [in Salfordesire]....

The predecessors of Roger de Montebegon gave to the ancestors of Gilbert de Notton xij. bovates of land by the service of the fourth part of j. knight. Gilbert de Notton holds the land.

This was the vill of Chadderton with Foxdenton. The pedigree of the de Notton family presents some peculiarities. Gilbert de Notton first occurs in 1185, in reference to an agreement which he made with Richard de Eland. In 1202, he and William de Notton, his son, contributed to the third scutage of King John and to the aid levied that year, in respect of their thanelands (Pipe Rolls, pp. 55, 152). About 1200, William de Notton married Cecily, daughter and ultimately heir of Edith, Lady of Barton, who shortly after married Gilbert de Notton, father of the said William. Cecily died before her mother, so that upon the decease of Edith de Barton early in 1222, Gilbert de Notton, son of William, by Cecily, daughter of the said Edith by her first husband, Augustine de Barton, succeeded to the manor of Barton. The heir of Gilbert de Notton here named was Gilbert, his eldest son and heir, who married Margery, daughter of Hugh de Eland.... The said Gilbert and Margery had issue Roger de Notton, who died in 1241, possessed of Silkstone, Farnley Tias, and Woodsome....

Gilbert de Nocton holds of [Roger de Montebegon] iiij. bovates in Kaskenemore.

The district of Kaskenemoor comprised of the vills of Crompton, Sholver, Werneth, Oldham, and Glodwick, in the ancient parish of Prestwich.

...Gilbert de Notton holds iiij. bovates of ... William [Neuill].

Gilbert de Notton's estate was the vill of Crompton (8 bov.), held by the service of 6s. 4d. yearly (3s. and 3s. 4d.). He gave land here to Cockersand Abbey (Chartulary, p. 726), also also did his grandson Roger de Notton (Ibid., p. 728). After the latter's death in 1241, this estate passed to Gilbert de Barton, son of William de Notton, son of this Gilbert. He gave Gartside to the monks of Whalley (Coucher, pp. 163, 624)....

Gilbert de Notton holds [Cadwalesate] by rendering to the King iiijs....

Cadishead appears to have been originally a member of the demesne of Salford. Henry I. (?) granted it to Edwin [the carpenter] to hold by serjeanty, with the object of securing the services of a permanent carpenter to do work upon the manor place or park within the demesne of Salford. Subsequently this estate escheated to the Crown and was granted in fee farm to the lords of Barton. At the date of this survey [in 1212] Gilbert de Notton held it in right of his wife, Edith, who gave one moiety of the hamlet to Stanlaw (Coucher of Whalley, p. 521). When Gilbert de Barton, grandson of Edith de Barton, sold his estates, or the major portion of them, to Thomas Grelley, this hamlet became attached to the barony of Manchester... ²