Bromley Davenport

The Davenport family is first recorded in pipe rolls dating before 1254. Roger de Davenport, Lord of Davenport held the hereditary office of Master Serjeant of the Peace for Macclesfield, Cheshire, England in the 1250s. Their residence was at Woodford and then at Capesthorne Hall, Macclesfield, which they still own. The Rev. Walter Davenport, sometime of Baginton, Vicar of Ellaston, Staffs, and of Capesthorne, assumed the additional surname of Bromley after that of Davenport by Royal Licence, 10 Sept 1822.

Bromley-Davenport is the name of