Richard de Trafford

• Name	Richard de Trafford  [1, 2]
  Birth	of Trafford, Lancashire, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I5250	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	10 Sep 2021

  
  

  Family	Margaret de Massey,   b. of Dunham Massey, Bucklow, Cheshire, England
  Children	+ 1. Amabel de Trafford,   b. of Trafford, Lancashire, England + 2. Henry de Trafford,   b. of Trafford, Lancashire, England d. Abt 1250
  Family ID	F5695	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  We have omitted the Traffords shown as preceding this Richard in, for instance, the Dugdale visitation of 1664-65 (citation details below). As J. Horace Round pointed out in a series of exchanges with W.H.B. Bird in the first decade of the 20th century, while this family and its surname certainly go back to the 12th and 13th centuries, some of the earlier names and connections claimed in the standard family pedigrees are implausibly fanciful.

  
  

• Sources

  [S853] The Book of the Radclyffes by Charles P. Hampson. Edinburgh, 1946. [S977] The Blackmans of Knight's Creek: Ancestors and Descendants of George and Maria (Smith) Blackman by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1980. [S1117] County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire by James Croston. London: John Heywood, 1887. [S5946] The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster Made in the Year 1664-5 by Sir William Dugdale ed. F. R. Raines. 2 volumes, contained in Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, volumes 84 (1872), 85 (1872), and 88 (1873), published by the Chetham Society.