Eleanor Stanford

Salford Minor. [from British History online]

The manor came into the king's hands at the Dissolution and in 1545 was granted to Sir Philip Hoby, who conveyed it in the following year to Anthony Littleton, fourth son of John Littleton of Frankley, whence it sometimes appears as Littleton's Salford. The manor was the subject of a complicated series of conveyances and Chancery suits, arising no doubt out of Littleton's embarrassments. It appears to have descended, however, to John Alderford, who married Littleton's daughter and sole heir. There was no issue by this marriage, but Alderford, after his wife's death, was married again, to Elizabeth Morgan (née Dormer), by whom he had two daughters: Eleanor, the wife of Charles Stanford, and Margaret, who married Sir Simon Clarke. On his death in 1606, therefore, the manor passed to Eleanor and her husband, and remained in the Stanford family for about two centuries.