[Illustration] There is a good pedigree of this, his own family, in Ormerod's History of Cheshire, (ii. p. 204,) under Chorlton, a seat of the family purchased in 1811. The first recorded ancestor is Matthew de Hormerodes, living about 1270. The elder line of his descendants, whose name was derived from Ormerod in Whalley, became extinct in 1793. The present family trace their lineage from George Ormerod, fourth son of Peter Ormerod, of Ormerod, who died in 1653. See also Whitaker's Whalley, p. 364. ARMS.--_Or, three bars, and in chief a lion passant gules_. Present Representative, George Ormerod, Esq. STARKIE OF HUNTROYD. [Illustration] The pedigree begins with Geoffry Starky, of Barthington (Barnton) in Cheshire, supposed to be the same with Geoffry, son of Richard Starkie, of Stretton, in the same county, an ancient family which can be traced almost to the Conquest. William Starkie was of Barnton in the seventh of Edward IV. Huntroyd was acquired by marriage, in 1464, with the heiress of Symondstone. See Whitaker's Whalley, 266, 529; also Ormerod's Cheshire, i. 474; and Baines, iii. 309. Younger branches. Starkie of Twiston, and Starkie of Thornton, Yorkshire. ARMS.--_Argent, a bend between six storks sable_. Present Representative, Le Gendre Starkie, Esq. CHADWICK OF HEALEY. [Illustration] A younger branch of Chadwick of Chadwick, now extinct, a family which can be traced to the reign of Edward III. Healey came from the coheiress of Okeden in 1483. Mavesyn Ridware, in Staffordshire, is also the property of this family, derived by an heiress from the Cawardens, and ultimately from the Malvesyns, who came in with the Conqueror. Younger branch. Chadwick of Swinton, in this county, derived from the heiress of Strettell: they bear their arms differenced by a _border engrailed or, charged with cross crosslets_. See Shaw's Staffordshire, i. p. 166, for a curious account of the Malvesyns, Cawardens, and Chadwicks of Mavesyn Ridware: see also Whitaker's Whalley, p. 459. ARMS.--_Gules, an inescutcheon within an orle of martlets argent_. Present Representative, John de Heley Mavesyn Chadwick, Esq. PATTEN OF BANK-HALL. [Illustration] Richard Patten, who appears to have flourished before the reign of Henry III. by his marriage with a coheiress of Dagenham became possessed of the Court of that name in the county of Essex, and was the remote ancestor of this family. John Patten of Dagenham Court, living in 1376, removed to Waynflete in Lincolnshire; he was the great-grandfather of the celebrated William Patten alias Waynflete Bishop of Winchester; from whose brother, Richard Patten, of Boslow, in the county of Derby, the present family descend. His son was of Warrington in this county in 1536. See the pedigree by Bigland and Heard drawn up in 1770, and printed in Bloxam's Memorial of Bishop Waynflete for the Caxton Society in 1851. ARMS.--_Lozengy ermine and sable, a canton gules_.