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Birth:          ABT 1195 

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I36284
The following is copied from VCH-Lancaster

In 1066 there was only one manor of YEALAND, and it no doubt included Silverdale. 
The whole was assessed as four plough-lands, and was held by Earl Tostig as 
appurtenant to the neighbouring lordship of Beetham. Roger of Poitou held the same 
in 1086. Later it became part of the barony of the Lancaster family, being held by the 
service of the eighth part of a knight's fee, and on division the Yealand Conyers part 
was assigned to Margaret de Ros of Kendal.

Before 1176 William de Lancaster I granted Yealand and Silverdale, as a plough-land 
and a half, this being apparently a moiety of the whole, to Adam de Avranches. Adam 
was succeeded by his son Roger de Yealand, who, with the assent of his wife 
Sunniva, gave land in his demesne there to the brethren of Cockersand ; and Roger's 
son Adam de Yealand, sheriff of the county from 1228 to 1233, followed.

Adam left a daughter and heir Alice, who married Robert de Conyers, and their portion 
thus acquired its distinctive name. The manor was also called LEIGHTON or Leighton 
Conyers. Leighton seems at first to have been the demesne land, but was in later 
times regarded as a manor distinct from Yealand Conyers, and the tenures became 
confused. The Conyers family held it for half a century or more, and it then passed, 
probably by marriage, to the Crofts of Dalton. There was some dismemberment also, for 
younger branches of the Croft family had Tewitfield in Warton and Silverdale. The 
manor proper, Yealand Conyers and Leighton, descended with Dalton until the 
partition of 1489, when it was assigned to Sir Robert Middleton, as son of Geoffrey, 
who had married Alison daughter and co-heir of James Croft. From: 'Townships: 
Yealand Conyers', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8 (1914), pp. 177-
180. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53291 Date 
accessed: 29 April 2009.

NOTE: The line I am following (Richard Hodgson, World Connect db=ancestorsearch) 
has Alice m. Galfrid Conyers and the dates make it unlikely that Alice m. Robert 
Conyers (the father).


Parents
DE YEALAND Adam (ABT 1160 - AFT 1230)
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Siblings
YEALAND Alicia (ABT 1195 - )

Marriage To CONYERS Geoffrey (Galfrid) (ABT 1175 - 1225)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
CONYERS Roger (ABT 1133 - BEF 1195)
____ Basilia (ABT 1135 - AFT 1195)

Children by CONYERS Geoffrey (Galfrid) ABT 1175 - 1225
CONYERS Humphrey (ABT 1215 - BEF 1283)

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