Adam de Kellet

   Another name for Adam was Adam filius Orm.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁷⁵
From The History of Lancashire, Vol. 8, Pgs 1-3:
Adam de Kellet, son of Orm de Kellet, was granted Lonsdale Hundred in 1199. The descent of the office is the same as the manor of Nether Kellet, and was held by the Holand and Lovel families and then by the Earls of Derby.

• Background Information. ⁷⁷¹
"Adam, son of Orm, holds j. carucate in Midelton in thange by charter of the King, and renders yearly j. mark."

"The charter here referred to is not to be found in the charter rolls, but it is referred to in the Pipe Roll of I John, 1199, where it is shown that Adam son of Orm (de Kellet_, gave 30 marks for confirmation of one carucate of land in Middleton, the serjently of the wapentake of Lonsdale with three carucates in Kellet, and the right of chase of hares and foxes (Pipe Rolls, p. 106).
~Lancashire Inquests, Extents, and Feudal Aids, A. D. 1205 - A. D. 1307, pg. 89

• Background Information. ⁷⁷¹
The descent of the family who held the thanlands of one moiety of Over Kellet, rate at one and one half carucate for 7s 6d, one moiety of Bare (1/2 car.) for 8s, and Claugton in Lonsdale (1 car.) for 4s, yearly service, begins with Orm, the ancestor. He was most likely living as early as the time of Henry I (1100-1135).

Orm had a son and heir named, Bernulf, and another son named Adam, who is mentioned in the Pipe Rolls, p.12, in 1169. Bernulf, son of Orm, had a son, also named Orm, who "attested the agreement, made between 1157-63, before Henry II, between the monks of Furness and William Lancaster I [Pipe Rolls, p. 12]." This Orm*, also had a brother named Adam [Pipe Rolls, p. 409]. Orm was also the father of William de Kellet [Pipe Rolls, p.107], who took part in the rebellion of John, count of Martain, in 1194, and later recieved a pardon from the King and fined 20 marks [Pipe Rolls, p.78].

William's oldest son was likely Henry de Kellet whose name appears from 1204-1207 in the Pipe Rolls, but died without issue before 1211, at the time when Gilbert, the second son of William proffered 20 marks and a palfrey for livery of his inheritance [Pipe Rolls, p.78]. Gilbert died in 1236, leaving issue, William, his son and heir, who died in 1242; Alice, sho married Henry de Croft, and Godith who married first Vivian Gernet, and secondly John de Biggings [Fine Roll Excerpts, I. pgs. 311, 389].
~Lancashire Inquests, Extents, and Feudal Aids, A. D. 1205 - A. D. 1307, pg. 91

*By the dates indicated in the Pipe Rolls, this may have been the Orm who was the father of Adam whose daughter married Thurston de Holand.

• Background Information. ⁷⁷⁴
Adam, son of Orm de Kellet proffered 6 marks and one chasour for letters patent* to enable him or his attornies to answer respecting the death of Adam Gernet, only before the King or the Chief Justice.

*The Charter Roll, 2 John, m. 17 dorso supplies a copy of the King's letters patent. "Rex, etc. Scias quot volumus quod Adam filius Orm non respondent allicui nisi coram nobis vel capilali justiciario nostro de morte Ada Gernet. Teste me ispso apud Lincoln. xiij die Januarii." (1201)
~The Lancashire Pipe Rolls of 31 Herny . . ., pg. 140