Eaton Bray aka Eaton Manor, Bedfordshire, England= Pictured right: Tomb of Lady Jane Brereton Volume III of The Victoria County History for Bedfordshire published in 1912, has a history of the manor as set out below. It seems reasonable to assume that this manor was simply the continuation of the holding of twelve hides, one virgate of Bishop Odo of Bayeux, recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086...
Brereton Hall, Cheshire, England=The first mention of the name Brereton occurs in the Domesday Book. The name Brereton appears as one of thesix dependencies or manors of the Barony of Kinderton at Middlewich, which was obtained by Gilbert de Venables . It would appear that the taking of land from the Saxon landowners and giving it to Norman followers was completed before the 1086 Domesday surve...