William de Merlay

- Bef 1129

• Name	William de Merlay  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef Sep 1129  [2, 3]
  Person ID	I10482	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Robert de Meleraut
  Mother	Emma
  Family ID	F6150	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Menialde
  Children	1. Ralph de Merlay,   b. of Morpeth, Northumberland, England d. Bef 1160
  Family ID	F6093	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2016

  
  

• Notes

  "William de Merlay, a serjeant to Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutances; he gave the lordship of Morwick to the monks of Durham." [The Blackmans of Knight's Creek, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S969] G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Royal Descent of a New England Settler." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 79:358, 1925. [S977] The Blackmans of Knight's Creek: Ancestors and Descendants of George and Maria (Smith) Blackman by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1980.