The House of Nevill by Mr H. J. Swallow

According to that of the early Barons of Brancepeth, from the "House of Nevill", the ancestor is Ligulf, a Saxon, lord of Bulmer and Ferlington, (now called Farlington) in Cleveland, temp. Edward the Confessor, and William I.

His son was Bertram, lord of. Bulmer and Ferlington, etc., who held his lands of Robert, fil Nigel Fossard, Lord Baron of Mulgrave, temp. Henry I.

His son and heir was Sir Bertram de Bulmer, lord of Bulmer, Sheriff-Hutton, and Brancepeth, (called Bertram fil. Bertram). He held five Knight's fees of the Bishop of Durham, of ancient foeffment; and was Sheriff of Yorkshire from 1131 to 1161. He died in 1171.

His only son was Sir Henry de Bulmer, Knt. (lord of Bulmer, Sheriff-Hutton, and Brancepeth) He gave one knight's fee in Cracho, and lands in Cold Conynston, Avilhon, Thorpe, and Bruneswell, to his nephew in 1203, and died without issue. Emma de Bulmer, his sister and sole heir, married Geoffrey de Nevill, of Horncastle, Co. Lincoln, who thus became lord of Brancepeth and Sheriff-Hutton.

In the Domesday Book, it states that "in Bolemere and Stidmund (now Stittenham), Ligulf and Norman had two manors of fifteen carucates to be taxed. There are eight ploughs, a priest and a Church; and one mill of two shillings; and. twenty acres of Meadow, &c. Ligulf had at Bramham, one manor of twelve Carucates to be taxed". In a transcript of Yorkshire Owners, from Domesday Book, copied into Harleian MSS No.1415. there appear the names of Bertram de Bolemar and Stephen de Bulmere.

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