This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SUTTON, KEVELIOC, DAVENPORT, FITTON, SOMERIE, BLOUNT, HULL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wkQBAIB/3113 Message Board Post: The following article appeared in the magazine Cheshire Life Magazine: (Title Is Your Name Sutton? Citation Cheshire Life Volume 26 Number 1 January 1960, p18 Illus) 'Argent a chevron sable between three bugles strising of the second. The bugles and cords and also the chevrons are black on a silver background. If so, your ancestors may have lived in Macclesfield Forest in the 12th century when Adam, son of Onyt was grantee of Sutton from Hugh Kevelioc prior to 1181. His grandson was master serjeant of Macclesfield Hundred before 1226, when he was succeeded by Vivian Davenport. The family estates descended to John Sutton of Sutton and Disley, who was born in 1403. He was a collector of a subsidy in 1442 and served under Sir Thomas Fitton at the Battle of Bloreheath as did his son John. Another son, Sir Richard Sutton was one of the founders of Brosnose College, Oxford. In 1575, Richard Sutton was born, and succeeded to the estates at the age of eight. He was slain in an affray at Chester in 1601, when the estate passed to his sisters. Another family of Suttons were to be found in the Malpas area in the time of Edward II, when Richard son of Hugh de Sutton married Isabella daughter and heiress to a large part of the Barony of Malpas. Their son John, married Margaret, heiress of Roger de Somerie, Lord of Dudley and was succeeded by another John who became Lord of Dudley and who was summoned to Parliament in 1343. His grandson, Sir John de Sutton , who died in 1401, held the castle of Malpas and part of Shocklach. He was succeeded by his son, Sir John de Sutton who was born in Ardern, Warwickshire. He married Constance daughter of Sir Walter Blount. Their son John was made Knight of Garter and was summoned to Parliament from 1430 to 1483. He died in 1488 at the age of 87. Three generations later Sir John Sutton, (Lord Dudley) sold the Sutton interest in the Barony of Malpas to Sir Rowland Hull in 1537.'