10 Jul Lordship Title of Compton or Stocking Compton or Stokes Compton ID1432
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At about this date Compton is called a member of the manor of Hampstead Norris, which had also been acquired by Thomas de Clare. It appears not to be mentioned as a separate manor for two centuries. It is then found as the manor of STOKES COMPTON or STOCKING COMPTON in the hands of William Norreys, who died seised of it in January 1506–7. It descended in the Norreys family (see Yattendon in Faircross Hundred) until 1609, when Lord Norreys conveyed Stocking Compton to Richard Bartlett and John Okeley. This may have been in trust, possibly for one of the Head family. Thomas Head, born in 1667, is called 'of Roden House, formerly Stokes,' by Cherry, and the manor is said by him to have descended through Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and granddaughter of Thomas Head, wife of John Pottinger, to Rev. Head Pottinger. It was sold by the latter to Edward Lee, whose only daughter married John Browne of Chisledon (co. Wilts.). Mrs. Browne about 1868 sold it to Lord Overstone, from whom it has descended to Lady Wantage.
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