Well, he ought to be, if Rev. Sam. Whaley in his book 'English Record of the Whaley Family' is correct when he says on page 2: "Among those honoured [by William the Conqueror] was the standard bearer in the battle of Hastings whose name was Wyamarus Whaley. He was also honoured with the Lordship of Whaley in the wapentake of Blackburn in the county of Lancaster". In 1086, twenty years after the Norman Conquest of England, William sent out his commissioners to record in detail the value of the 'loot' he had won at Hastings, in what we know as the Domesday Survey. As well as the extent of the land, how it was cultivated, the annual income from it, and the taxes, or 'geld' due, the survey also recorded the names of the people who held the land. So, a mere twenty years after the Conquest, Wyamarus should have his name in the Domesday book, or if not him, then his son Eustace, or his grandson John. I cannot find mention of any of these names in the Domesday Survey of the Hundred (or Wapentake) of Blackburn. It is, of course, in Latin, but it's quite short, and the names would stand out. In any case, the Rev. Thomas Dunham Whitaker, in his book 'An History of the Original Parish of Whalley' (4th Edition, 1872), gives the Latin, then talks around the subject in (fairly) plain English. Here are two extracts, with my comments in square brackets []: 'In the time of King Edward [the Confessor] the whole of this district [which later became south Lancashire, and which includes the Blackburn hundred] was the property of the Crown. It had been granted soon after the Conquest (a vast donation) to Roger of Poitou: at the time of Domesday, with the exception of the grants made by Roger, it had been taken in exchange or resumed by the Conqueror, and, excepting certain knight's fees previously granted by him, it remained in the Crown.' 'The whole of this [Blackburn] hundred had been given [by Roger de Poitou] to Roger de Busli and Albert Greslet, who at the time of the Survey had re-granted, to certain "homines" [persons] eleven carucates and an half, which were not charged, as the grantors had acquitted them of all burdens for the term of three years' Whitaker says 'Blackburn hundred had two churches, Whalley and Blackburn'. He also says that the church of Whalley [spelled 'Wallei' in the Survey] had an endowment of two carucates [a carucate being about 100 acres], and to the church was annexed the Manor of the town. [A Manor was an estate of land, with jurisdiction of the people who lived there; the smallest unit of civil administration] So is Wyamarus just a myth? The matter will bear further consideration. If anyone (a Latin scholar, perhaps) would like more detail of the Domesday Survey of Blackburn, please let me know. Frank Whalley