Welcome back Donna!
Some background.
As I said in my reply #4 on this post, there are various lots of the manorial records for Norton in the Moors depending on who owned which bits of land.
Some are at Staffordshire RO, some at William Salt library in Stafford, some at Birmingham library, and some at Keele University Special collections.
As I don’t live in England, I had to try and do what I could at a distance.
Staffordshire RO charge for them to do research on your behalf.
The records at Birmingham are unobtainable unless you actually go into the library. No copying service, and no research service. (In other words no service at all!)
I found transcripts on-line of some of the records at Keele where the records from places withiin Norton in the Moors come under Tunstall Manor, and found the family I was interested in, so I mostly went down that route, getting a friend to go to Keele to take hundreds of photographs!
I did find however, that some of the records at Birmingham had been filmed by familysearch, and those films are free to view on-line at an LDS library.
Court rolls 1485 - 1748 film number 8090199 (Item 8 ), and 8220354 (Item 1).
This is the clip I remembered in the Rent Roll for 1608
A transcription (hope I'm not treading on your toes)
Badyley
Richard Meare and
Randulph Poynton for the ] xij s iiij d
moyty of one Messuage called ]
the hall of Badyley and the ] ij capons
moytie of one cottage there
John Meare for the other moyty ] xij s iiijd
of the said messuage Cottage ]
and landes thereto belongyinge ] ij capons
Randulph Poynton for an Acre of land
in Haddfeild(?) als the ferme by lease ] vj d
There is a Baddeley Green now at Norton in the Moors.
The ‘capons’ will be hens. I have an ancestor who lived in Derbyshire and had to provide a capon “sound and well carved” a year as part of his rent.
I'm guessing either Richard Meare, or John, were the father of Jana Meare married to Randall Poynton, but can't see a baptism for her. As you know, the early Norton registers are in a poor state, with missing years.
There are lots of mentions of 'Meare' people in these Rent Rolls.
I haven't seen any more Poynton names, but then I have not checked them all thoroughly - as I say, I was looking for the name Lane. They would be worth looking at if you haven't already seen them.
Happy hunting!
