Cecily was die dogter van Nicolaas Wortley en Isabella Tunstall.
(Foster, Joseph: Some
feudal coats of arms. Hon. M.A. Oxon. London, 1902)
(Foster, Joseph: Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)
The Eyres appear as witnesses to charters in the Peak
of Derbyshire in the remotest period to which private charters ascend. The
first of the name known is William le Eyre, of Hope, in the reign of Henry III.
In the reign of Henry V. the family divided into three great branches: the
present house descends from Eyre of Laughton in South Yorkshire, who spring
from Eyre of Home Hall near Chesterfield. One moiety of Rampton was purchased
by Anthony Eyre in the reign of Elizabeth; the other came from the coheiress of
Babington, in 1624. (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/58212/58212-h/58212-h.htm#page229)
The wife of Roger Eyre and mother of Arthur Eyre is
identified as Cecily Wortley of Derby. But how and why did an Elizabeth
Huddleston of Sawston replace Cecily Wortley in the Eyre of Padley pedigree? How did the
descendants get so confused, as there doesn't seem to be any other connection
between the two families? There is no easy answer, but a few scenarios come to
mind: 1) After Cecily Wortley's death, Roger Eyre married Elizabeth Huddleston
as his second wife. (Rootsweb)
Padley
Hall (of Padley Manor) was 'n Elizabethaanse huis wat uitkyk oor die Derwent rivier
naby Grindleford, Derbyshire, Engeland. Padley Hall was 'n groot dubbele
binnehofhuis wat dateer uit die 14de eeu, hoewel dit gebou is op die terrein
van 'n vroeëre Normandiese herehuis. Willem die Veroweraar het die
Padley-landgoed aan sy ondersteuner die hoof van die De Bernac-familie gegee. Die
Bernac-familie het hul naam na Padley verander na aanleiding van die landgoed.
Die Hall is vir die Padley-gesin gebou en is daarna aan die plaaslike
aristokratiese Eyre-familie oorgedra.
Padley Chapel and ruins of Padley Hall
Inside Padley Chapel, Nether Padley (1)
The
following reproduces the content of a plaque within the Chapel Padley Manor
Through
the Ages - Owners and Tenants of the Manor.
Robert
Eyre of Highlow, died 20 March 1459, Buried at Hathersage, married Joan Padley
(heiress of Padley Manor) died 9 March 1468 Buried at Hathersage
Robert
Eyre, married Elizabeth Fitzwilliam (of Mabelthorpe)
Robert
Eyre, married Cecily Wortley (of Derby)
Arthur
Eyre, married Margaret Plompton (of Plompton)
Anne
Eyre, married Sir Thomas Fitzherbert (of Norbury and Hampstall Ridware)
(The
Feudal History of the County of Derby, Volume 1, Chapter 20 - A Muster Roll of
21 Edward III. (1347/8) by John Pym Yeatman (This
transcription by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 2002 STAVELEY)
