Middlemore Family Genealogy

Willington.-According to Dugdale, these Willingtons were descended from an ancient family of whom he gives various scattered notes. It may be that they originated from the village of Willington near Barcheston. The most notable man of the name was Sir Ralph de Willington, who served as a knight banneret in the French campaign at Crecy and Calais, 1346-7, during which he lost his life; the arms he displayed were, Gules a saltire vair, which are recorded as quartered for Willington of Barcheston in the . Visitation of Warwickshire, 1619, and appear impaling Middlemore on William Willington's tomb in Barcheston church.