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King Stephen or Henry II. (Hodgson II. ii. p. 230), but in another place he gives the date as being in [the] time of King Stephen alone, and as Gilbert held Ogle in 1165, Humphrey was then presumably dead. A date for this charter of (circa 1145) would seem permissible, which would allow of Humphrey being alive in the days of the Conqueror.
With regard to the christian names, Humfridus and Gislebertus, Gislebert or Gilbert, are round as Anglo-Saxon names (Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, W. G. Searle), and the termination -bert is so common in Anglo-Saxon names that it seems unnecessary to illustrate them. For instance, Tilbert (or Gilbert) occurs as bishop of Hexham in. 981, etc., yet Humfridus appears also to have been a Norman name, and Gilbert occurs amongst the Franks and Normans. As, however, the name Humphrey is said to be of German origin, the probability is that these two names have a greater affinity to Anglo-Saxon than to Norman.

Therefore it appears certain, or almost so, that the father of Humphrey held Ogle about the time that William the Conqueror came over and that he was of pre-Conquest and not Norman origin. It is known that Humphrey's surname was the same as the place name and in the charters issued by Norman barons the usual 'de' is placed before the surname as if he had taken his name from the place but there is the possibility of his father or one of his ancestors having given their personal name to the place. The Danes were the successors of the Jutes amongst whom and there immediate kinsmen, the Swedes, the personal name and the descendible name or appendage of Ogle existed. During the Danish occupation of Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Durham this name appears to have been given by persons of that name to Ogleby, Oglethorpe, which mean respectively, as has been shown, the residence and village of Ogle and it is probable that the other compound names of Ogle, with a suffix, such as Ogilby, Ogilvie, Ogleface, etc., found in Scotland, have similar significations, but the name Ogle, without any adjunct, might be the place where the head or chief of that name resided, in virtue of which it took its name in its simplest and highest form. This appears to be somewhat confirmed by what has been said above with reference to the original holder of Ogle having come into existence or was living about the latter time of earl Siward the Dane and there are other evidences that the family were of pre-Conquest origin for in the first [known] inquisition in 1362 they appear to have been in possession of lands in Fowberry, these have been known as Ogleburgh. It also appears later that Seven Shields castle was held, this presupposes an extent of land in Tynedale which may have stretched to Thursby in Cumberland, a holding of the family at the north of Englewood forest, at the southern end of which the manor of Oglebird and Oglebird beck were names once known. Cumberland and Westmorland have evidences of a Danish occupation. Northumberland is said to have been more Anglian than Danish the Angles having succeeded in the Jutes and the Danes being most probably the descendants of these two tribes and they left the present county of Northumberland, north of the Wall, more free from the turmoils of their period than the rest of ancient Northumbria, which would increase the probability of any person who had territory keeping his own through the Danish period.

The distant scenery of the picture we are about to delineate has as above been sketched in with a few crossed lines, and without direct evidence we can only conclude that a person named Ogle, or its equivalent, gave his name to the place which was apparently before the year 1066, in possession of one whose son's surname was the same as the place name.

It is not to be supposed that the above is absolutely correct, for the writer has since discovered mines of wealth and considers it more than probable that Anglesey as well as Inishmore - but at a later date - bears upon the family name.
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GENERAL SKETCH OF THE FAMILY

It is evident that prior to the date on which documentary evidence exists from which the descent of the family is deduced some ancestor must have existed between the eighth and ninth centuries.

At this time, it is said, a family, having a name sounding like Ogle, or having an appendage added to their personal name, equivalent to Ogle, existed as hereditary judges in the district in Sweden, known as Bohuslän, as shown above, no evidence exists as to proof, but it is possible, on the inferences already noted. that one of this family or clan gave his name to the place, Ogle, and that one bearing this name was, presumptively, living there prior to the Conquest, who, upon later evidence, seems to have been at least equivalent to a thane, whose son, Humphrey, either took his name from Ogle or inherited it, under which name was confirmed to him, by the baron of Whalton, certain rights in his own land. He and his son, Gilbert, were amongst those who were witnesses to the issues of a trial by battle between Bertram Widdrington and William Tascha. His grandson, Robert, apparently held Ogle castle, so-called, but probably what would now be called a peel tower, whose younger brothers were Gilbert, John and Richard.

There has very often been a break in the pedigree here, for the property, instead of descending directly, apparently passed to Sir Thomas Ogle, a son of Richard, the youngest brother, which was no doubt the reason why there was a difficulty in the proof. This Sir Thomas was so much in evidence that it seems probable that his sudden increase of importance was due to his marriage to the daughter and heir of one of the Tysons, whose arms, as a quartering, occur in some records. His son, Sir John Ogle was leagued with the rebel barons, against Henry III. After him came in succession seven Sir Robert Ogles, the last of which, dying without issue, broke the continuance of this name in the family. The first four of these Sir Robert Ogles all married heiresses of the families of Gubium, Hepple, Bertram and Heton respectively. The first of the four having fought at Neville's Cross and appears to have been the first of the family since the Norman Conquest, who reoccupied, it is presumed, his position equivalent to a feudal baron. His son appears also to have been a crested warrior and by his marriage brought the barony of Hepple into the family. His son, Robert, died young, after having married the sole heiress of Sir Robert Bertram, baron of Bothal, which brought the barony of Bothal into the family. Two families of Bertram were distinguished in Northumberland, one of them being barons of Mitford and the other barons of Bothal, they sprang from the ancient family of Bertram and of Briquebec in Normandy. The only son of this marriage, fought at Otterburn, married the coheiress of the Hetons and was buried in Hexham Abbey church. whose son - the fifth in succession of the name of Sir Robert Ogle after his father's death, being annoyed that the barony of Bothal had been conferred upon his younger brother, John, besieged this brother in Bothal castle, which he captured in four days, but he was afterwards forced by the Crown to relinquish his acquisition to his brother who had taken the name of Bertram and in whose family the barony of Bothal remained until, owing to the failure of issue male, it returned to Ewyn, second Lord Ogle. This Sir Robert Ogle was an energetic man of great note. His

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son, the sixth of the successive Sir Robert Ogles, was distinguished by his assistance to Edward the Fourth in the wars of the Roses and was by that monarch created Lord Ogle, from whom also he had large grants in Redesdale, Harbottle, together with a grant of a great deal of the property of the late earl of Northumberland, including the castles of Alnwick, Prudhoe and Warkworth. He married the heiress of Sir Alexander Kirkby. His brother, John, founded the line of the Ogles of Lancashire and from a still younger brother, William, are descended the Ogles of Choppington, of Ogle castle (as tenants), Burradon, South Dissington, Bradford, Saltwick, Eglingham, Berwick and Bowsdell, Ireland and America, and, probably, also the Ogles of Staffordshire and of Yorkshire. The son, the last of the seven successive Sir Robert Ogles, died without issue, and Ewyn, Lord Ogle, succeeded and after him his son, Ralph, third Lord Ogle whose second surviving son became the founder of the Ogles of Causey Park, Bebside and Newsham and Tritlington. The third surviving son of Ralph, Lord Ogle, was the founder of the Ogles of Kirkley and Worthy, including also a family living at Saltwick and probably the Ogles of Darras Hall. His fourth son presumably founded the Ogles of Hirst, from whom is descended Viscount Ogle, a man of note in the days of Charles I. The eldest son was Robert, fourth Lord Ogle, two successive, fifth and sixth, Lords of the same name, including Ralph, Lord Ogle, were either all killed or died young, the last dying without issue when his two whole sisters expected to get the entails, but it was decided by the Crown that his half-brother, Cuthbert, should be the heir, so he became Lord Ogle with the whole of the property attached to it. This Cuthbert married the coheiress of the Carnabys. He had no male issue so, before his death, got Permission-irrespective of the claims of Oswin Ogle, the right heir - to break the entail male of the property, and he conferred most of it on his daughter Jane, who married Edward Talbot, afterwards earl of Shrewsbury, and at his death they entered upon the estates. She and her sister Katherine, were coheirs to the barony of Ogle, the abeyance of which was afterwards terminated by the death of the elder sister, Jane, the younger, Katherine, being declared Baroness Ogle, with remainder to her right heirs. Her son was William Cavendish. The famous earl and marquis of Newcastle, in the days of Charles I, and afterwards earl of Ogle and duke of Newcastle. At his mother's death he had become the ninth Lord Ogle, and his son, the second duke of Newcastle, was the tenth and last Lord Ogle, as his eldest son the earl of Ogle. After having married Lady Elizabeth Percy, the sole heiress of the last earl of Northumberland, died without issue, and his five sisters became coheirs to the Barony of Ogle amongst the descendants of the three youngest of whom, the barony is still in abeyance. The eldest of these three, Margaret, however, succeeded to the property and married John Hollis, Lord Haughton and earl of Clare, who was afterwards created duke of Newcastle, from whose sister, the present dukes of Newcastle-under-Lyme are descended. The duke of Newcastle died, leaving a daughter and heiress, Henrietta, who afterwards married the earl of Oxford and Mortimer. , Which carried the old Ogle property into this family. Margaret, a daughter and heiress, married the second duke of Portland amongst whose descendants the property and coheirship of the barony of Ogle descended to the fifth duke of Portland, who died without issue. When the coheirship of the barony of Ogle passed to his sister, Lucy, who had married Lord Howard de Walden and whose grandson is now eldest coheir to the Barony, but the estates passed to a cousin, the sixth and present duke of Portland, who still holds Bothal, but his predecessor, the third duke had already alienated, the barony of Hepple, North Middleton. Bearle and the property at Hexham and the fourth duke alienated the barony of Ogle which in 1830 was transferred to the Rev. John Savile Ogle of Kirkley whose descendants now possess what remains of Ogle castle.
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Of the family of the Ogles of Causey Park there exist in the present day indirect representatives. Of the Ogles of Kirkley, Newton Charles Ogle of Kirkley is the head and has a son, also Bertram Savile Ogle of Steeple Aston. Two representative of the Ogles of Worthy exist. The Ogles of Eglingham have two or three representatives. Of the Ogles of Staffordshire and Shropshire there are many representatives but they are much scattered, and also of the Ogles of Yorkshire and of Kent and some of the same name in Ireland, and Newton Charles Ogle of Kirkley is, apparently, as far as it is possible at present to ascertain, the eldest male representative of the barony.
 
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