See Ormerod, ii. 356, and for Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, ii. 78. Brydges's Collins, iv. 16.
Arms.—Gules, two helmets in chief argent, garnished or, and in base a garb of the third.
Present Representative, George Horatio Cholmondeley, 2nd Marquess of Cholmondeley.
Tatton, called Egerton of Tatton, Baron Egerton of Tatton 1859.
Robert Tatton of Kenworthy, in Northenden, who married the heiress of William de Withenshaw, alias Massey, about the latter end of the reign of Edward III., is the first proved ancestor of this family, but there is reason to believe that he was descended from the much more ancient house of the name who were seated at Tatton in the twelfth century. Withenshaw, now the seat of the younger branch of this family, remained from the period above mentioned the inheritance and residence of the Tattons, until the decease of Samuel Egerton, Esq. in 1780, when the estate of Tatton, which is supposed to have given name to the family, devolved by his will on William Tatton of Withenshaw, Esq., who had married Hester, sister of Mr. Egerton. Tatton had passed to the Egertons through the families of Tatton, Massey, Stanley, and Brereton.
Younger branch, Tatton of Withenshaw, in this county. See Ormerod, iii. 315, and Gentleman's Magazine 1798, 930.
Arms.—Quarterly argent and gules, four crescents counterchanged. The arms are perhaps founded on the coat of Massey.
Present Representative, William Tatton Egerton, Baron Egerton of Tatton.
Bunbury of Stanney, Baronet 1681.