Michael le Fleming, II

In 1153, the second Michael le Fleming agreed an exchange of land with Furness Abbey, giving up Roose, Fordbootle and Crivelton for Little Urswick and part of Foss, near Bootle in Cumberland, so that the Abbot could get greater access to his port at Piel.

Notes: Muchland derives its name from Micheal's Land after Michael le Fleming who was granted the lands by Henry I sometime between 1107 and 1111. These lands lay eastwards of Abbey Beck and southwards of the moors of Birkrigg and Swarthmoor and stretched right down to the southern-most tip of the peninsula at Rampside.[1] At that time the southern limit of the manor was Walney Channel, but it was later moved inland to follow the line of Sarah Beck or Roosebeck. This land became the new manor of Aldingham.

Aldingham is home to the Church of Saint Cuthbert, who was laid here after death on his journey to be buried. A little further down is the remains of Aldingham Moat and Aldingham Motte, both homes to the Lords of Aldingham in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Newbiggin was once home to Sea Mill, one of the three mills of the manor.

Sources

• Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists who came to New England between 1623 and 1650, Frederick Lewis Weis, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. Fifth Edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1979. 41:25

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muchland
• http://cybergata.com/roots/2227.htm
• http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/fleming01.htm
• Sources: 1 various web sites including www.geneajourney.com/flemng.html 2 BP1934 Fleming, Bart of Rydal, BLG1886 Fleming of Rayrigg and Belfield with some support from BLG1886 Le Fleming of Rydal

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