Dalinghoo Parish

Dalinghoo or Delingahou.

That part of this parish which lies within this hundred, is known by the name of "The Hamlet," and, in the 29th of King Edward I., was assigned in dower, to Lady Margaret, sister to Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and relict of Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall, whose ancestors had been owners thereof; but the said Earl dying without issue, it reverted to the Crown, after the decease of the said Lady Margaret.

In the 4th of King Edward III., John de Eltham, the second son of King Edward II., created Earl of Cornwall, obtained a grant of this hamlet, with others in Alderton and Thorndon, in this county; and from the De Uffords and Delapoles, Earls of Suffolk, being owners thereof, the manor, for distinction sake, acquired the name of Earl Dalinghoo; and the lords, as of right appertaining thereunto, claimed one turn in four to the presentation of an incumbent to the church.

In the 31st of King Edward III., Sir John de Norwich obtained a charter for free warren in all his lands in Norfolk and Suffolk, and amongst them are the manor of Dalinghoo. He died in the 36th of the same reign, and was succeeded by John, his grandson, who was lord of the manor, and died in 1358.

This estate now belongs to Andrew Arcedeckne, Esq., of Glevering Hall, in Loes hundred.

County of Suffolk

Topographical and Genealogical, The County of Suffolk, 1844, Augustine Page

British Isles Genealogy

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