William le Gernet

  General Notes:

~The Battle Abbey Roll, p. 101, William Gernet's descendants became de Lydiates and de Halsalls, having adopted the names of their manors. ⁹²²

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁰³⁵
Sir Roger Gernet of Halton, who was the hereditary forester of Lancashire in fee, and held by serjeanty in right of that office a forge within the forest, the lands by advowson of Halton, lands in Lee, Burgh and Fishwic, a fishery in Ribble; the advowson of Prescot, and lands in Eccleston, Whiston, and parmount rights in Speke. He was of a Norman family, the younger son of Vivian Gernet, and brother and heir of William Gernet.

~Mamecestre: Being Chapters from the Early Recorded History of the Barony; the Lordship Or Manor; the Vill, Borough, Or Town, of Manchester, p. 81, footnote 89