"In the year 1157 saw the first recorded use of the name Lowther; it was in a reference to the river and the word is believed to mean 'foaming water'. The oldest part of the present church at Lowther dates from about 1170."
"We know of his existence from a document at Durham dated 21 November 1202, in the reign of King John, concerning the rent of land at Lowther. The document conveniently identifies the land in question by saying that it lay next to the land of Hamon son of Dolfin."
Dolfin lived at Lowther in the middle 1100s and would have watched, and perhaps supervise, the building of the nave of the present parish church of Lowther.
Source: Gidget Lowther document "Descendants of Unknown Lowther.
LOWTHER.* (No. 1.)
"Of Lowther Castle, County Westmoreland ; of Inglelon and Swillinglon, in Yorkshire ; and of Skryne Abbey, County Meath, Ireland. Arm* : Or, six annulets sa. indicat virnm. Crest : A dragon pass. ar. Motto : Magistrate The ancient family of Lowther, Lowthre, or Loulhre, is of great antiquity in the county of Westmoreland. Harrison, in page 370 of his History of the County of York, deduces the line from Arkfrith, a Danish noble, who held great possessions in the North of England, in the time of Canute or Knut. He was succeeded by his son :
2. Arkill, lord of Marske, county of York (living in the time of Edward the Confessor), who had :
3. Gospatric Fitz Argill, lord of Lowthre, a.d. 1066, who had :
4. Dolphin of Louthre (A.D. 1120),..."
Source: Irish Pedigrees: Or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Volume 2 John O'Hart - January 1, 1892 J. Duffy and Company- Publisher. p. 289
"We know of his existence from a document at Durham dated 21 November 1202, in the reign of King John, concerning the rent of land at Lowther. The document conveniently identifies the land in question by saying that it lay next to the land of Hamon son of Dolfin."
Dolfin lived at Lowther in the middle 1100s and would have watched, and perhaps supervise, the building of the nave of the present parish church of Lowther.
Source: Gidget Lowther document "Descendants of Unknown Lowther.
LOWTHER.* (No. 1.)
"Of Lowther Castle, County Westmoreland ; of Inglelon and Swillinglon, in Yorkshire ; and of Skryne Abbey, County Meath, Ireland. Arm* : Or, six annulets sa. indicat virnm. Crest : A dragon pass. ar. Motto : Magistrate The ancient family of Lowther, Lowthre, or Loulhre, is of great antiquity in the county of Westmoreland. Harrison, in page 370 of his History of the County of York, deduces the line from Arkfrith, a Danish noble, who held great possessions in the North of England, in the time of Canute or Knut. He was succeeded by his son :
2. Arkill, lord of Marske, county of York (living in the time of Edward the Confessor), who had :
3. Gospatric Fitz Argill, lord of Lowthre, a.d. 1066, who had :
4. Dolphin of Louthre (A.D. 1120),..."
Source: Irish Pedigrees: Or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Volume 2 John O'Hart - January 1, 1892 J. Duffy and Company- Publisher. p. 289
"In the year 1157 saw the first recorded use of the name Lowther; it was in a reference to the river and the word is believed to mean 'foaming water'. The oldest part of the present church at Lowther dates from about 1170."
"We know of his existence from a document at Durham dated 21 November 1202, in the reign of King John, concerning the rent of land at Lowther. The document conveniently identifies the land in question by saying that it lay next to the land of Hamon son of Dolfin."
Dolfin lived at Lowther in the middle 1100s and would have watched, and perhaps supervise, the building of the nave of the present parish church of Lowther.
Source: Gidget Lowther document "Descendants of Unknown Lowther.
LOWTHER.* (No. 1.)
"Of Lowther Castle, County Westmoreland ; of Inglelon and Swillinglon, in Yorkshire ; and of Skryne Abbey, County Meath, Ireland. Arm* : Or, six annulets sa. indicat virnm. Crest : A dragon pass. ar. Motto : Magistrate The ancient family of Lowther, Lowthre, or Loulhre, is of great antiquity in the county of Westmoreland. Harrison, in page 370 of his History of the County of York, deduces the line from Arkfrith, a Danish noble, who held great possessions in the North of England, in the time of Canute or Knut. He was succeeded by his son :
2. Arkill, lord of Marske, county of York (living in the time of Edward the Confessor), who had :
3. Gospatric Fitz Argill, lord of Lowthre, a.d. 1066, who had :
4. Dolphin of Louthre (A.D. 1120),..."
Source: Irish Pedigrees: Or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Volume 2 John O'Hart - January 1, 1892 J. Duffy and Company- Publisher. p. 289
"We know of his existence from a document at Durham dated 21 November 1202, in the reign of King John, concerning the rent of land at Lowther. The document conveniently identifies the land in question by saying that it lay next to the land of Hamon son of Dolfin."
Dolfin lived at Lowther in the middle 1100s and would have watched, and perhaps supervise, the building of the nave of the present parish church of Lowther.
Source: Gidget Lowther document "Descendants of Unknown Lowther.
LOWTHER.* (No. 1.)
"Of Lowther Castle, County Westmoreland ; of Inglelon and Swillinglon, in Yorkshire ; and of Skryne Abbey, County Meath, Ireland. Arm* : Or, six annulets sa. indicat virnm. Crest : A dragon pass. ar. Motto : Magistrate The ancient family of Lowther, Lowthre, or Loulhre, is of great antiquity in the county of Westmoreland. Harrison, in page 370 of his History of the County of York, deduces the line from Arkfrith, a Danish noble, who held great possessions in the North of England, in the time of Canute or Knut. He was succeeded by his son :
2. Arkill, lord of Marske, county of York (living in the time of Edward the Confessor), who had :
3. Gospatric Fitz Argill, lord of Lowthre, a.d. 1066, who had :
4. Dolphin of Louthre (A.D. 1120),..."
Source: Irish Pedigrees: Or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Volume 2 John O'Hart - January 1, 1892 J. Duffy and Company- Publisher. p. 289
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