Brantingham family

An early Brantingham coat of arms may be preserved in one of two seals attached to document WYL639/191 of the West Yorkshire Archive Services.

[1] Later in the same century, Thomas de Brantingham, bishop of Exeter and Lord Treasurer, bore arms sable, a fess crenelle, between three Catherine wheels, or.

[4] Anne Fletame of Stockton, an ancestor of Sir Samuel Garth, in her will of 24 April 1562, bequeathed a linen kerchief, an apron and a pair of hose to Jane Brantingham.

[14] Six years later, the will of one Margery Brantingham of the parish of St Andrew's, Auckland, dated 30 September 1570, states that she was working as a servant to John Robinson of Myddleston.

The inventory of her possessions is not abundant, and that her presumed relations, Leonard and Edward Brantingham, owed her money suggests that the family as a whole had fallen on hard times.