The Ullock Freehold

Leaving aside the contentious bits, we have a pedigree for Woodhall of Ullock as below.

That can be extended, again uncontroversially, into a larger tree, using the Harleian MS together with probate. Most of the next generation moved off to Essex or ecclesiastical appointment, making the most of their connection with Edmund Grindal, first Archbishop of York then of Canterbury.

The individuals of interest to Cumberland are the sisters Mabel and Dorothy, who remained behind.

Mabel (-1570) and James (-1587) Wilkinson of St Bees

Reedy researched this family in some detail (pp 119-134). The surnames that appear in James' 1587 inventory look like later Whitehaven ones. The probate includes two bonds, with different administrators and bondsmen, to look after the respective interests of his two families by different wives (Mabel being his first wife).

It is interesting, from the point of view of this Marron section, that the administrator for the Mabel family was his brother-in-law Henry Bowman of Lingcroft and the bondsman Christopher Crakeplace of Flimby.

Dorothy (-1608) and Henry (-1621) Bowman of Lingcroft

Henry Bowman was administrator for his brother-in-law James Wilkinson. His farm, Lingcroft in Lamplugh, bordered the River Marron and Ullock.  Henry did particularly well out of the Grindal connection, being given control of the local ecclesiastical court. By the time he wrote his will, his son Henry was constructing a new house on another farm, Hodyoad, immediately to the south. They were probably the only family at that time in the Lamplugh parish part of the Manor of Lamplugh to own two substantial farms.

The younger Woodall line

There appears to be a younger brother of John Woodhall who remained in Ullock: Oswald, died 1608.