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|Name=Moreton
|Blazon=Ar. a greyhound courant sa.
|Crest=A wolfs head couped ar.
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|Info=co. Chester; the heiress of Moreton m. temp, Henry III. Sir Gralam de Lostock, Knt.; her grandson assumed the surname of Moreton; from him descended William Moreton, Esq., of Moreton, living temp. Henry VIII., mentioned as arbitrator, who decided a dispute between two co. Chester gentlemen, namely, "which should) sit highest in the churchc, and foremost goe in procession, by awarding the honour to him, that may dispends in lands by title of inheritance ten marks, or above, more than the other." His grandson, John Moreton, m. Anne Davenport, co-heir of her mother, Jane, daughter and heiress of Richard Massey, Esq.. of Tatton; his last male descendant, Sir William Moreton, Recorder of the City of London, d. 1763, when the property devolved upon his nephew, the Rev. Richard Taylor, who assumed the surname of More-ton, and' was father of the Rev. William Moreton Moreton, of Little Moreton, co. Chester
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