John Alderford

sources

• British History Online. www.British-history.ac.uk
• Catholic Record Society, miscellanea, vol.13
• Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum bibliothecae wigorniensis. (Worcester Cathedral Library)
• Complete Baronetage vol.1 1900. Cockayne

links

• https://stirnet.com/genie/data/british/aa/azmisc13.php#alderford1 (membership required in order to view without interruption)

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Started the rebuilding of Salford Hall, Abbots Salford, 1602.

The manor [Salford Minor or Abbots Salford] 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. Charles Stanford was succeeded by his son John, who died in 1649. John was apparently a Royalist in the Civil War, but his son William was allowed to succeed him, under the Act of Pardon, without payment of a fine. On William's death without issue in 1690, the manor came to his younger brother John (d. 1713), who married Mercy daughter of Francis Sheldon, and left a son and heir William.