Emma Grelley

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Albert Grelley.

There is disagreement about which of two Albert Grelleys was Emma’s father. One appeared in Domesday and was a witness in 1094 to the charter recording the founding of Lancaster Priory. The other was his grandson. Farrer argued for the former ("Barony of Grelley"; VCH (1:327)). Tait (p. 127 ff.) pointed out chronological difficulties with this. The Complete Peerage (6:107 n.) refers readers to Farrer's acount in the Lancashire VCH vol. 1 for the early pedigree of the Grelleys. Keats-Rohan gives the grandfather as the father of Emma, but cites Tait. The Lancashire VCH (4:sub Dalton) gives a date of about 1150 for Albert Grelley's enfeoffment of Orm of a knight's fee in Dalton, Parbold, and Wrightington, in marriage with his daughter Emma, and in Volume 6 sub Wrightington it gives the date of death of Albert as about 1162. This would make the grandson the father of Emma.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Orm son of Ailward.

The marriage is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 132), by Farrer, and by Tait.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

A daughter and heiress married Robert de Lathom.

References

The Complete Peerage. Cokayne and Gibbs eds. Volume 6 (1926).

Farrer, William. “The Barony of Grelley” in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Vol. LIII (1902) pp. 23-58.

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 I. Domesday Book. (Boydell Press, 1999).

Tait, James. Medieval Manchester and the Beginnings of Lancashire. (Manchester U.P., 1904).

The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster Volume 1 William Farrer, J. Brownbill eds. (1906).

The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster Volume 4 and 6 William Farrer, J. Brownbill eds. (1911).