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TONG, Richard de : Burke's Extinct Baronetcies - p521. Footnote to 'Tempest, of Tong' - created 25th May 1664 - Extinct 29th Jan 1819. [Thanks to Karl Tonge for sending me this article]
Richard de Tong held the manor of Tong in 1194 of Hugh Neville, of Brearley, as lord of the fee, and it continued in his family until the reign on Henry VI when Hugh de Tong, left an only daughter and heiress, Margaret de Tong, who conveyed the lordship of Tong to her husband, Robert, son and heir of William Mirfield, esq. of Howley Hall in the county of York.
The great-grandson of this marriage, Christopher Mirfield, esq. of Tong Hall, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Arthur Pilkington, esq. of Bradley, and left at her decease, in 1557, an only daughter and heiress, Ellinor Mirfield, who m. Henry Tempest. Burke's Commoners.
Bowling Hall
The tower was built by a member of the Bolling family but at the end of the 15th century the rural estate passed to the Tempest family. They built the hall, probably on the site of an earlier building, with a large mullioned and transomed window on the garden front. The contemporary heraldic glass from this window was removed in the 19th century but later re-instated.
Rishworth/Tempest
10. Alexander Rishworth of Heath near Wakefield, J .P., for West Riding of Yorkshire, m. Beatrice dau. of Nicholas Tempest of Tong. Marriage settlement 1546, sold to his brothers John and Robert reversion of lands in Shelfe and Great Horton 1560. Sold reversion in Coley Hall to Richard Sunderland 1578; d. in or before 1591. Had issue:
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