William de Merlay

• Preferred Name: William de Merlay^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: MRZB-PCL
  
• WILLIAM DE MERLAY OF MORPETH (d. BEFORE SEPTEMBER 1129): with note: Description: Living 1095. Earliest known tenant of Morpeth. Died bef. Sep 1129. Married Menialda UNKNOWN. Three (3) known children ... SONS: Goffrid, Morel and earl Ranulf de Merlay of Morpeth.
  
• Death: 1129 in Northumberland, England
  
• Birth: in Northumberland, England
  
• Religion: Durham Cathedral benefactor
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  William Merlay
  s/o
  b-
  m- Menilda
  d- 1129 -
  1066 - Battle of Hastings
  no date - Charter - Northumberland - WILLIAM Merlay, my wife & my sons consenting, give to God & St Cuthbert & the Monks of Durham, Morwic, with Appurtances & also fishing on the river Tyne for the soul of me, my wife Menialda, my son's soul Ranulph Merlay, Geoffrey Merlay & all my other sons..
  1128 - William Merial (Merlay) owed a palfrey to the crown, for rent to enter upon his brothers ground
  
  === According to "Leland" was a sergeant to ===
  According to "Leland" was a sergeant to Geoffrey, Bishop of Constance, and according to an ancient charter, in the time Henry I gave the Lordship of Morwick to the monks of Durham. According to the Great Roll for 1128 he owed a palfrey to the Crown for the right to enter upon his grother's ground.
  
  === Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain Americ ===
  Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
  
  Page: 42-24
  
  *Forrest=fathers direct line,! dna connections
  @Stolp=mothers direct line
  +Tamer=husbands direct line
  #Wallace & ^Stuetelberg=son-in-laws direct lines
  all lines separated.With multiple marks cross over lines
  without documentations all is speculative/with ???
  
  === !Brown book 5, chart 403. ===
  !Brown book 5, chart 403.
  
  === !Weis. 42-24. ===
  !Weis. 42-24.
  
  === William de Merlay ===
  WILLIAM DE MERLAY, according to Leland, was a sergeant to Geoffrey, bishop of Constance, about the time of the Conquest ; and, according to an antient [sic] charter, in the time of Henry the First, for the good of the soul of Menialda his wife, and the souls of Ranulph, Goffrid, and Morel, his sons, and of all his other sons, gave the lordship of Morwick to the monks of Durham. — (Morp. Misc. 1.) Also, according to the Great Roll for 1128, Wm de Merlai owed a palfry to the crown, for right to enter upon his brother's ground. (History of Northumberland, 374)

• m. 1115 in Morpeth, Northumberland, England

1. Ranulph de Merlay, b. ABT 1118 in Northumberland, England     d. BEF 1157 in Morpeth, Northumberland, England

1. Title: Pedigree of Merlay, Greystock, Dacre and Howard
   Author: A history of Northumberland by Hodgson, John, 1779-1845; Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Publication date [1858], Publisher Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Printed by T. & J. Pigg
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/historyofnortpt202hodguoft/page/372/mode/2up?q=Merlay;
   Page: He is mentioned and his wife's name is given.