Roger Nowell (bef. 1210)

Born before 1210 in Lancashire, England

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Biography

Roger was born before 1210. His wife inherited a share of the manor of Great Harwood, Lancashire after the death of her father Richard Fitton, and, according to the Victoria Country History of Lancashire, he was alive in 1283 but died before 1288.^[1] He inherited the manor of Great Mearley, Lancashire.

In August, 1324, at Markedholme, John of Heskayth and Adam Nowel reached an agreement regarding tenements in Great Harrewod, the Nethirtonndene to the Dic, with part of Nethirtonn, a third of a third of the Great Heye on Caldre, and the land of Dobbe Emmeson which Roger Nowel gave to William of Heskayth; also approvement of the common waste of Great Harrewod towards Cundecliffe to the value of 9d per year -- these being a third of the lands of William Fytonn which after his death were divided between his daughters and their husbands, William of Heskayth and Maude his wife, Edmund of Legh and Anabella his wife, and Roger Nowel and Elizabeth his wife. Witnessed by: Sir Richard of Radecliff, parson of Bury, Adam of Radeclyffe, John his brother, John of Dynelaye, Adam of the Clogh, John of Blakeburn, and John of Cliderhou.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Townships: Great Harwood', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 337-344. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp337-344, accessed 12 July 2018
2. ↑ The National Archives Website: Discovery: DDN - NATIONAL TRUST DEEDS: DDN 1/22 Agreement: John of Heskayth & Adam Nowel -- tenements in Great Harrewod, (https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/5885c097-4407-4fe4-bc97-970501f17bec : accessed 9 July, 2022).

• An History of the Original Parish of Whalley and Honor of Clitheroe, Thomas Dunham Whitaker, 4th ed., vol.2, pub. George Routledge and Sons 1876, pedigree between pages 40 and 41, and Inquisition of 1339 quoted on p. 109
• Foster, Pedigrees of the County Families of England, vol.1 - Lancashire: Pedigree of Nowell of Read