Joan Skelton, heiress d’Orton

Recent Research

From Jones, B. C. (1999) “Art. 4 – Historical Development of Annetwell Street, Carlisle,” in Richards, C. (ed.) Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society. Kendal, Cumbria, UK: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, pp. 132–133. doi: 10.5284/1032950.

“It is not known when the chantry of St Roche was founded, but it has been suggested that Bishop Whelpdale’s gift of £200, in his will of 1423 to maintain a priest to celebrate the souls of Thomas Skelton, knight, and Master John Glaston might be connected with it.

“Additionally, there is the possibility of a connection with a mortgage of November 1432, which survives in isolation among the other deeds of the Pennington family of Muncaster. One of the properties mortgages was said to have been within the city and opposite the Caldew gate. The mortgagor was Hugh, grandson of Sir William Leigh (d. 1428) and younger son of Sir William Leigh (b. 1394). Sir William Leigh, who died in 1428, had married one of the daughters and co-heirs of Clement Skelton (d. c. 1399) and his wife Joan, daughter and heir of Giles Orton (d. 1369). Clement probably had a brother, Thomas, who founded the Armathwaite branch of the family: their father, also called Thomas, who died in 1366, married a daughter of Sir Henry de Malton I. Sir Henry had bought the manor of Lessonhall or Little Waverton in 1303/4, purchased by the Penningtons in 1439-40. Sir Henry’s descendant, another Henry living in 1365, was a close relative of Robert de Whitrigg (d. 1362) whose family estate in Little Bampton and Branthwaite eventually came to Thomas Skelton (1328-1365), a nephew of Thomas de Whitrigg."

She was the daughter of Gyles d' Orton and Maud, his first wife.

• History of Parliament Biography for Sir Clement Skelton < document attached >
• https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/162642/I32491/joanjaneheiressd-orton/...
• http://johnrogers.com.au/pocklington/familytree1/gtp4581.html