Henry Ferror

The property was formerly owned by the Okes family, but in 1471 Ewood and its lands were conveyed by the owner Edmund Pylkington to Henry Ferror, or Farrer, who built Ewood Manor. (SOURCE: http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I114...)

Henry Ferrar (Ferror in the records) was a wealthy merchant, and on 10 April 1471 he bought the land, tenants and appurtenances of Eywood (Ewood)., record of a quitclaim by Edmund Pylkington, son of Robert Pylkington Esq. It is believed that on this land he built his manor.[citation needed]

There is no will extant of the first Henry Ferror (Farrar) owner of Ewood, however the second Henrie Ferror , whose will was dated 1548, was a person of wealth, as ”he added a number of proprerties to his possessions; the White Lee estates, land in Hipperholme and Lightcliffe, and a close called Holme in Sowerby, also two messauges called ‘Oldenfrabraough’ with ‘Symyng’ (a building) and all the lands thereto belonging” (The Farrar’s Island Family and It’s English Ancestry, Alvanh Holmes 1977).

There are many myths, earnest and unintentional, about the origin of this family and it's name, as well as variations of the name.

The earliest of the name found was a Ferror and wife (fferror & uxor) as tenants of Johannes Helistones, in Elland, Halifax Parish, Morley Wapentake, York in the subsidy rolls of 1379 (Poll tax of 1371) http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/SubsidyRolls/WRY/Halifax.... In this case it refers to a ferror and his wife, a ferror was a smith.

See: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol7/pp65-77, which mentions Adam the Smith (ferror) as working iron in Horton in 1306.

In 1410-1411 There is a Johannes Ferror (John Ferror) in the Register of the Freemen of York, his occupation was a dyer of wool (litttestar, litster, lister)[1] Yorkshire, in particular the north, as well as Durham, hold desposits of iron, amongst them the Cleveland or Cliffland deposits, and iron working was a major industry.

The family, known today as Yorkshire Farrars/Farrers or Ferrars, lived in the Calder Valley Region, known for it's pastureage and wool industry. Elland is only 8 miles or so from the Farrar ancestral home of Ewood Hall.

The 1548 Will of Henry Ferror, patriarch of the Virginia and New England Farrars spell the name Ferror.[citation needed]

The 1542 will of Henry Fareher, (Farrar) a cousin of the above Henry Ferror spells the name variously Fareher, Farher. [citation needed]

The 1666 Visitation of Cumbria Westmoreland, p 43 has a John Fairer of Warcop Tower. There can be no doubt as to his lineage as his armorial bearings are identical to those of John Ferrar of London, father of William of Virginia, and other Farrars.

It is often claimed that, variations of the name include Farrier, Ferris, Farris and Farrow. Of the Farriers, Ferris and Farris none of that name possess the DNA haplogroup of R1a1a1b2 or R-Z93, of the Virginia Farrars. There are descendants of Abraham Farrow of Staindrop, Durham, England and Stafford Co, VA that possess this DNA, but Durham, England was also a iron working center.

The notion that Ferris, Farris, Farrier is a derivative of Farrar or Ferror or a hypercorrected version is hereby refuted.

In some cases, very few, the name was spelled Farrow, as in Abraham Farrow, or when a family descended into illiteracy in America, such was the case of Stephen Farrar son of Richard grandson of William IV, but the family regained literacy and corrected the spelling of the name to Farrar in Alabama by 1830.

There were iron deposits and iron works in the east and south of England, and there arose the surname Farrow, as in John Farrow of Hingham, Norfolk and Hingham, Mass but these families belong to the Saxon/Danish haplogroup of Ii,

There is absolutely no evidence that the Ferrors of Yorkshire, which includes Nicholas Ferrar (au contratemps Pyckard) were descended from Henry de Ferrers, Master of Horse for William [le batard] the Conqueror. And this includes those genealogies based on Judge Timothy Farrar's "Memoir of the Farrar Family", as well as 19th century and early 20th century editions of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. There are some spurious genealogies, easily refuted, posted that try to connect the two families.

Sources

↑ Register of the Freemen of York... A Google book. Pg. 115+ Acknowledgments

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