An extract from Volume II of ‘The History of the
County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster’ by the late Edward Baines and
edited by James Croston, F.S.A. Page 379. Part of the Norman Collection.
The Tetlows of Chamber Hall
Chamber Hall was held by Richard Tetlow in the reign of
Edward II., Robert, son of Adam de Oldham, having granted to Richard, son of
Adam de Tetlow, lands in Werneth-juxta-Oldham, by deed dated 14 Edward II.,
1320-1. His grandfather, Adam de Tetlow (according to a deed quoted in 1639, in
a dispute with Sir John Byron respecting the commons of Oldham), having married
Eva, daughter of William, son of Adam de Oldham, obtained her lands in Werneth
and Oldham.
The Tetlawes were seated at Chamber in Werneth for many
generations. In 13 Edward IV. (1473-4), Sir John Assheton, Knt., of
Ashton-under-Lyne, is found acting as arbitrator "betwene John Longley, of
Agecroft, Esq., and Richard Tettlawe, of Werneth," a descendant of the
Richard de Tetlow named in the preceding descent. The name of Adam de Tetlow
occurs as a juror 11 Henry VI. (1433); and in 15 Henry VIII. an indenture was
made "between John Tetlow, gentleman, and Agnes his wife, one of the
daughters and heires-apparent of Edmund Bardesley, gentleman." Joan Tetlow,
a daughter of this John and his wife Agnes, became the wife of Thomas Chaderton,
of Lees, and by him had, with other children, Lawrence Chaderton, master of
Emmanuel College, Cambridge. At the visitation of Sir Richard St. George, in
1613, a pedigree of five descents was registered, commencing with John Tetlaw
and his wife Agnes:-
TETLAWE ARMS:
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The Tetlows remained in good repute and lineal descent
until Jane, sole heiress of Robert Tetlow, Esq., conveyed the estate in marriage
to George Wood, gentleman, who sold it in 1646 to Mr Henry Wrigley, a linen
draper in Salford, whose granddaughter, Martha, daughter and heir of Henry
Wrigley, Esq., of Chamber Hall, in Oldham, having, about 1680, married Joseph
Gregge, Esq., the estate was devised to him. His grandson, ….
CHAMBER HALL, HOME OF THE
TETLOW FAMILY, WHO WERE
CONNECTED TO ANCIENT OLDHAM FAMILY THROUGH MARRIAGE.
