Edith, lady of Barton, was the daughter of Matthew, son of Leysing de Barton,* and probably his sole heir, for although she appears to have had three sisters, there is no evidence that they left issue (Pipe Rolls, p. 96). Edith married first Augustine, called "de Barton," but of what family or locality is unknown. By him, who died before 1196, she had issue a son, John de Barton, who predeceased her, and a daughter Cecily. She married secondly Gilbert de Notton, a knight holding lands in Yorkshire under the honour of Pontefract, and in Lancashire under the Montbegons, whose eldest son William had married Edith de Barton's daughter and heir, Cecily. Their son, Gilbert de Barton, succeeded to his grandmother's estates upon her death in 1222 (Final Concords, pt. I, p. 88 in notis).... 2
* Similarity of name, if nothing more, suggests the possibility that Matthew de Barton, son of Leising, whose daughter Edith must have been married before 1180, may have been the son of that Leising, son of Leising, whose is named in the Pipe Roll of 31 Henry I. (1129-30), as one of the men of Stephen, Count of Mortain, of the land between the Ribble and the Mersey, in conjunction with his brother Swain, son of Leising; and further that Elias, son of Lessi (Leising?), who was amerced for an offence against the forest in 24 Hen. II. (1177-8) may be identified as Elias, father of Richard de Worsley, tenant of Worsley and Hulton at the date of the inquest, and possibly a younger brother of Leising de Barton.
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Edith, lady of Barton, with the assent of her husband Gilbert de Notton, for their salvation and that of her son John and her daughter, wife of William de Notton, gave in alms to the monks of Stanlaw all the land of Cadewallis-sete (now Cadishead), which Alexander [de Caldewals] held of her, that is the moiety of Cadewallis-sete, for 2s. yearly to be rendered to her for all service (Whalley Coucher, p. 521). Edith de Barton died before October 16th, 1220 (Close Rolls, p. 428 b). 3
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