[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

Yesterday I met a Mr de Lacey. He reacted to my telling him that I was aware of his family's connections with Hyndburn by telling me that he had traced his ancestry back to 900 AD. The family owned loads of land throughout the country as well as locally. There is a De Lacey Arms pub in Ribchester.

He has recently worked in Church, but I didn't ask where.

Few others will be able to get back as far as pre-Conquest with their family tree.

Dobbo, when I was doing my reseach into the monks o Kirkstall's occupation of Accrington, the name de Lacy cropped up several times. Ilbert de Lacy came over to England with William the Conk, I traced the family line to late 1200's when the last male de Laxy died, his Cousin Audrey, she took over the family holdings, she then married a Fitzgerald, he changed his name to de Lacy, so he could rule the roost as it were. Therefore no way is he a true de Lacy
I also translated several of the Latin documents from the Coucher Book of Kirkstall, up to when King Edward topped his nephew Thomas Earl of Lancaster for getting uppity, he had 1/8th de Lacy blood in his veins. Edward then seized the lands of Lancashire, thats why they've been crown holdings ever since.