Walter Strickland Esquire

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:33, Walter Strickland, Esq., d. 1467, knight of the Shire of Westmoreland, 1441, married Douce Croft, daughter of Nicholas Croft.

Sir Thomas Darcy, K.G., born about 1467, created first Lord Darcy, of Temples Hurst, beheaded 30 Jun 1537, attainted of high treason and his peerage forfeited, married as his first wife, Dowsabel Tempest, who died between 1503 and 1520, daughter of Sir Richard Tempest, of Giggleswick, co. York, and Mabel Strickland, daughter of Walter Strickland .

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 13:37 ¹⁶⁰

~Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 188 ⁵⁹⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²²⁷
Sir Ricahrd Tempest, of Stainforth, married Mabel, daughter of Walter Stickland, of Sizergh, as his second wife.

~Dodeworth's Yorkshire Church Notes 1619-1630, p. 61

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Sir Thomas Darcy married, as his first wife, Dowsabel, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Tempest, of Giggleswick, In Ribblesdale, co. York, by Mabel, daughter of Walter Strickland, of Sizergh, Westmorland. She was living 1503.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, pp. 73-74

• Records and Notes. ⁸⁵⁹
1426 John de Barton and William Maymorn, chaplains, grant to Walter de Stirkeland, son of Thomas de Stirkeland, knt., and to Dowse, his wife, the messuages, lands etc. which they had by the gift and feoffment of Walter de Stirkeland, knt., father of the said Thomas, in Hencastre, except the rents and services of John Roos of Greneheved and a pool called Hencastre Vyver, in Hencastre, to hold to Walter and Dowse and their male issue, remainder to the heirs male of the body of Thomas de Stirkeland, knt., great-grandfather of Walter etc. dated 20 September, 5 Henry VI. Orig. at Sizergh.

1426 John de Barton and William Maymorn, chaplains, grant to Walter de Stirkeland, son of Thomas de Stirkeland, knt., and to Dowse, his wife, the messuages, lands etc. which they had by the gift and feoffment of Walter de Stirkeland, knt., father of the said Thomas, in Hencastre, except the rents and services of John Roos of Greneheved and a pool called Hencastre Vyver, in Hencastre, to hold to Walter and Dowse and their male issue, remainder to the heirs male of the body of Thomas de Stirkeland, knt., great-grandfather of Walter etc. dated 20 September, 5 Henry VI. Orig. at Sizergh.

~Records relating to the Barony of Kendale: Volume II, pp. 168-176.

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁰⁵
Walter Strickland Esq., son of Sir Thomas married in 1426 to Douce daughter of Sir Nicholas de Croft. In the year of King Henry VI, he was granted the office of keeper of the Royal Park at Calgarth, and in the next year the King appointed him Receiver General in and about Kendal.

~Sizergh Castle, Westmoreland & the Strickland Family, pp. 19-20

Walter married Douce Croft, daughter of Nicholas Croft of Dalton, Lonsdale Hundred & Leighton and Elena Boteler, on 11 Nov 1426 ^160,599,910.^,1405 (Douce Croft was born in Dalton, Wigan, Lancashire, England.)