Adam de Hocton

   Another name for Adam was Adam de Hogton.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events. ⁶⁸⁸
In 1154 to 1189, time of Henry II, Adam de Hocton styled himself Dominus de Hocton and held one carucate of land.

~The Houghton Genealogy, p. 21

• Background Information. ⁸²⁷
A Richard de Hoghton is found attesting charters about 1230 [Whallcy Coucher, iii, 835, 836]. Adam de Hoghton occurs in 1242 and later [Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 151, 158, &c]. A little earlier Adam son of Adam de Hoghton made a grant of his moiety of Heaton in Lonsdale [ibid. i, 30], the date being known by the appearance of Simon de Thornton, sheriff (1234-41), among the witnesses. Perhaps therefore the former Adam was succeeded by a son Richard and he by a brother Adam.

~A History of the County of Lancaster Volume VI, pp. 36-47

• Background Information. ¹³⁸⁷
"In the Testa de Nevill it is written that Warin Bushel, Baron of Penwortham temp. William II (1087), gave two carucates of land in Hocton and Eccleston to Hamo Pincerna, in free marriage with his daughter ; and that, at the date of that record, Adam de Hocton held the same Hocton, namely one carucate of land. Richard, second son of Hamo Pincerna, had Hoghton of the gift of his mother, after his father's death ; and his son, Adam succeeding to tis estates, was styled Adam de Hocton.

~Parish of Blackburn, County of Lancaster: A History of Blackburn, Town and Parish, p. 711