Source Request: Huddlestons of Millom Castle

Can anyone point me to a good source for the family of Huddleston of
Millom Castle? I'm interested particularly in the 15th and 16th
centuries for this family. There is no pedigree of them on either the

mjcar...

Brad

I have a good deal of information on this family - there should be a
couple of references to them in the Archives. They are ancestral to
the Docwras of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

As it happens, I am corresponding with Annette Hudleston Harwood who is
an authority on the subject; in particular we are looking at the
question of whether the family has a descent from Richard, Earl of
Cornwall, the younger son of King John. I shall see whether Annette
would be able to join a discussion here. I'll try to dig out what I
have and post it asap in any case.

Tudor Place or Stirnet websites, nor is there a pedigree in the 1563
Visitation of Yorkshire.

The Huddlestons made very advantageous marriages into the Nevill family
in the mid-to-late 15th century. It appears to have started with Sir
Richard Huddleston, KB, heir to Millom Castle, who married about 1465,
Margaret, the illegitimate daughter of Richard Nevill 'The Kingmaker'.
Two of Sir Richard's younger brothers then married first cousins of his
wife: Sir John Huddleston married (as his first wife) Joan Fitzhugh,
niece of the Kingmaker, and William Huddleston married Isabel Nevill,
daughter of the Marquess Montagu, another niece of The Kingmaker.

And a Richard Huddleston of Westhall in Whittington, Lancashire,
married Alice Tunstall, granddaughter of George Nevill, archbishop of
York, and so a great-niece of The Kingmaker. But I'm not certain how
the Huddlestons of Westhall fit into the Millom Castle family.

Any sources on this family that anyone can point me to, I'd much
appreciate.

Cheers, --------Brad

Douglas Richardson...

Dear Brad ~

There are pedigrees of the Huddleston family in the following two
sources:

1. Hutchinson, Hist. of Cumberland 1 (1794): 528 (Huddleston pedigree).

2. Jackson, Papers and Peds. Mainly Rel. Cumberland and Westmorland 2
(1892): 120-136, foldout pedigree.

Brad Verity...

Thanks, Douglas. I've added these to my UCLA Library list.

Cheers, ------Brad