TATTON PARK

Grid Ref: SJ 744 815
22 May 2004, 2 April 2005, 9 Oct 2005, 5 July 2006, 22 Jan 2013, 21 March 2013, 1 May 2013

The Mansion in 2013

The Mansion		The Portico
The Deer Park		Tatton in bloom
Ornamental garden		Memorial to Parachute Training School
Under the Portico, April 2005		Bell in the vegetable garden
Corinthian Column		Detail of decoration
Garden statue		Greek urn with musicians

Tatton Park is very well known in Cheshire and the Greater Manchester area. It is owned by National Trust and has its own website. The park has walks through mature woodand and around two lakes. In addition to the 18th century mansion house, there is an old hall about three quarters of a mile across the park, where you can enjoy a very informative tour. The gardens are spectacular, particularly when the rhododendrons are in flower. In addition there is a fern house and an orangery. There are numerous events held in the grounds each year including a game fair and the Royal Horticultural Society's show. During the Second World War, the park was used for parachute training. Trainees jumped from a tethered balloon. The inscription on the plaque reads:

Throughout most of the Second World War, Tatton Park was the dropping zone for No. 1 Parachute Training School, Ringway. This stone is set in honour of those thousands from many lands who descended here in the course of training given or received for parachute service with the Allied Forces in every theatre of war.

Tatton Park has the Old Hall, the Mansion, gardens, park walks and also a farm.  Here are a few shots from October 2005

Farm house		Farm house kitchen
There were no trading standards in the 19th century!		Growing piglets
Deer in March 2013		Deer in Jan 2013

The Egerton Family

The Tatton Estate has a complex history. In the 12th century the land was owned by the Tatton family, which took its name from the place. A branch of the Massey family acquired the property in the late 13th century. In the 16th century, the heiress, Joan Massey married William Stanley. They had no sons but one daughter, variously named as Joan or Jane. She married Sir Richard Brereton and their grandson, Richard Brereton, married Dorothy Egerton, the daughter of Richard Egerton of Ridley. When Richard Brereton and Dorothy died without issue the estate went to Dorothy's half brother, Thomas Egerton, the illegitimate, but acknowledged son of Richard Egerton. Thomas Egerton was a lawyer and became Lord Chancellor. He died in 1617. The family tree below, taken from Ormerod, starts with Thomas Egerton. The family had connections with many of the land owning families of Cheshire. In the late 18th century, the land went back to the Tatton family when Hester Egerton, married William Tatton of Wythenshawe. When Hester Tatton became sole heiress of her father, she took the name of Egerton again and her son then succeeded to Tatton Park and Wythenshawe.

• 1. Sir Thomas Egerton, illegitimate son of Richard Egerton of Ridley. Lord Chancellor of England, Baron Ellesmere of Shropshire from 1603, Viscount Brackley of Northampton from 1616. Born about 1540 and died 15 March 1616/7, buried at Dodleston in Cheshire.
• + Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Ravenscroft of Bretton in Flintshire. Died 1588 and buried at Dodleston.
  • 2. Sir Thomas Egerton died before his father aged 25 in 1599 and was buried at Dodleston.
  • + Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Venables, baron of Kinderton. This couple had three daughters so the estate passed to the next son, John.
  • 2. John Egerton, 2nd son, created Earl of Bridgewater on 27 May 1617. Lord President of Wales. Died 4 December 1649 and buried at Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire.
  • + Frances Stanley, second daughter and co-heiress of Ferdinando Stanley, Earl of Derby. Died in 1635 aged 52 and buried at Little Gaddesden, Herts. This couple had four sons and nine daughters. The first, second and fourth son died without issue.
    • 3. James Egerton died without issue.
    • 3. Charles Egerton died without issue.
    • 3. John Egerton, 3rd son, became 2nd Earl of Bridgewater and died 26 October 1686. Buried at Little Gaddesden, Herts.
    • + Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of William Duke of Newcastle, died 14 June 1663 aged 37. This couple had six sons and three daughters. We follow only two of the sons, the first and third.
      • 4. John Egerton, KB, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, ancestor of the Earls and Dukes of Bridgewater.
      • 4. Thomas Egerton of Tatton, born 16 March 1651, died 29 October 1685 and buried at Little Gaddesden, Herts.
      • + Hester, daughter of Sir John Busby of Addington in Buckinghamshire. She died 7 October 1724. This couple had four sons and a daughter and we follow the eldest son.
        • 5. John Egerton of Tatton Park, born 12 Feb 1679 died 9 July 1720 and buried at Rostherne
        • + Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Barbour and Elizabeth Hill, the sister and heiress of Samuel Hill of Shenston Park in Staffordshire. She was buried at Rostherne on 10 February 1743. This couple had three sons and two daughters and we need to follow two sons and the daughter Hester.
          • 6. John Egerton of Tatton, eldest son, born 14 October 1710, died 4 January 1736, buried Rostherne.
          • + Christian, daughter of John Ward of Capesthorne, married April 1735. She died 22 December 1777 and was buried at Rostherne. This couple had two daughters, Elizabeth and Christiana.
          • 6. Samuel Egerton of Tatton, born 28 December 1711, MP for Chester and died 10 February 1780, buried at Rostherne. He inherited the fortune of his uncle, Samuel Hill, who died in 1758.
          • + Beatrix, younger daughter and co-heiress of John Copley of Battly, rector of Elmly in Yorkshire. She was buried at Rostherne on 1 May 1755. This couple had one daugther, Beatrix who married Daniel Wilson of Dalham Towers in Westmorland in 1778 and died without issue in 1779.
          • 6. Hester, finally sole heiress, married May 1747 and took again the name of Egerton on 8 May 1780. She died 9 July 1780 aged 72.
          • + William Tatton of Wythenshawe, born 9 May 1749 and died 21 April 1806, buried at Northenden. This couple had a son and a daughter.
            • 7. William was born 9 May and baptised 14 May 1749.  He died 21 April 1806 and was buried at Northenden.  He was MP for Cheshire at the time of his death.  He assumed by Royal Licence the name and arms of Egerton of Tatton.  He married four times. Follow the link to the rest of his family. Here we follow only the first son of his second wife, Wilbraham Egerton.
            • + 2^nd wife Mary, 2^nd daughter of Richard Wilbraham Bootle of Rode, Esq.  She died 13 November 1784 aged 24, buried at Northenden
              • 8.  Wilbraham Egerton of Tatton Park, Esq. born 1 September 1781.  He married at Rostherne on 11 Jan 1806.
              • +Elizabeth Sykes, 2^nd daughter of Sir Christopher Sykes, Bart.  She was his cousin, the daughter of his aunt Elizabeth in generation 7. This couple had seven sons, William, Wilbraham, Thomas, George, Mark, Edward Christopher and Charles Randle, of whom we follow only the eldest, William. There were also three daughters; two died in infancy and one aged 21. We follow only the eldest son.
                • 9.  William Tatton Egerton, born 1806 MP 1859, made Baron Egerton of Tatton in 1859, married 1830 and died 1883.
                • +   Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus, daughter of the Marquess of Ely. This couple had four sons and four daughters.
                  • 10. Wilbraham Egerton, 2nd Baron Egerton, born 1832 married 1857 and died 1909 and succeeded by his brother, Alan.
                  • + Mary Sarah Amherst daughter of the 2nd Earl Amherst.
                    • 11. Gertrude Lucia Egerton, born 1861.
                  • 10. Loftus, died in infancy
                  • 10. Alan de Tatton Egerton, 3rd Baron Egerton, born 1845 married 1867
                  • +   Anna Louisa Watson daughter of Simon Watson Taylor of Erlestoke Park in Wiltshire.
                    • 11. William Alan de Tatton Egerton, born 1868 and died 1870
                    • 11. Cecil Egerton, born 1871, died young
                    • 11. Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton, born 1874 and died without issue on 30 January 1958 when the Egerton baroney became extinct.
                  • 10 Loftus Charles Egerton, born 1849 and died 1871.
            • 7. Elizabeth Tatton, born 14 April 1748, married Sir Christopher Sykes of Sledmere in Yorkshire, MP for Beverley.
    • 3. Thomas Egerton, 4th son of 1st Earl of Bridgewater died unmarried aged 23.

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