ABSTRACT
In the Conqueror’s Survey Pennington is returned as a vili under the name of “Pennigetun,” containing two carucates, and, with several other vills, was included in the Manor of Hougun. It is stated in Baines’s “History of Lancashire” that Gamel de Pennington appears by ancient rolls and registers to have been the proprietor before and at the Conquest. Kimber, who is quoted as the authority for this statement, compiled a Baronetage in 1771, in which he makes the above observation, and it is also set forth in Lodge’s “Peerage of Ireland” under the title of Baron Mun- caster; but what the rolls and registers referred to can be remains unknown. West in “Antiquities of Furness,” referring to the family of Pennington says: “This worshipful family has long quitted its original seat in Pennington, yet it has a special right in this Synopsis, as one of the most ancient and honourable Furness families; and whether of British, or Saxon origin, it was seated in Furness before the Conquest … Here the family of Pennington resided before the Conquest, and until they removed to Muncaster about 1242.” No authority is given, but this statement also is evidently founded on that in Kimber’s Baronetage.
