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Birth:          ABT 1055 Wegon now Wigan, Lancashire, England

Notes
from ancestry.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I17166
From "Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society", Vol I, Colchester, pp 251-
273, The History of the Barrington Family, at 
www.southfrm.demon.co.uk/Genealogy/Barr.html:

In the paper read at the meeting of the Society at Barrington Hall, allusion was 
frequently made to the Barrington Family which, though now extinct, was a very 
ancient and prominent one in the county and I feel that the following account of it 
compiled by the late William Clayton, Esq., from deeds and manuscripts in my own 
possession cannot fail to be interesting to our members and a fitting sequel to the 
history of Hatfield Broad Oak. This history will be followed by the history of the Priory 
and the Forest, also compiled by the late Mr. Clayton.

The Barrington Family were originally settled at Barrington, in Cambridgeshire, to which 
place they either gave a name, or from it took their own.

In a M.S. account of the Barringtons, written about the year 1677, which will be 
referred to hereafter, it is stated:

"It is the greatest honor and happiness of this family that it embraced the Christian 
faith upon the first preaching thereof here, by the English Apostle St Augustine, for 
there was lately seene in the Tower of London a record or memorial that Adam of 
Barrington was baptised by him the sayd Augustine."

Of this Adam de Barentone there is not now any trace whatever to be found. The first 
really met with is Barenton, who was servant to Queen Emma, wife of King Ethelred 
and mother of Edward the Confessor. Randulfus de Barentone probably son of the 
above was one of those sworn by William the Conqueror to assist in taking the general 
account of the kingdom, he was employed in Cambridgeshire, and made the return for 
the Hundred of Trepeslaw (now Triplow) in that County. He was most likely father of 
Sir Odynell de Barentone commonly called Barenton the Saxon and was before the 
Conquest Lord of Wegon. He was related to (or perhaps connected by marriage with) 
Robert de Gernon to whom the Manor and Chase of Hatfield had been granted, and at 
which place Odynell certainly had property. And although the Barony of Wegon was 
taken from him at the Conquest, it does not appear that he was deprived of any of his 
lands in Cambridgeshire or Essex.

Parents
____ Barenton the Saxon (ABT 1025 - )
----- ----- ()

Siblings
DE BARENTONE Randulfus (ABT 1055 - )

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
BARRINGTON Odynell (ABT 1085 - )

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