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Sir George Manaton married a daughter of the Courtenay family

The Manaton panels record that George was a contemporary of Richard II and Henry IV, so he would have lived during the period 1377-1413. He may have died before 1401 when his son William Manaton witnessed a grant.

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William Manaton married a daughter of the Reskimmer family

He would have been born by at least 1380, as in 1401 William witnessed a grant of lands in Climsland Manor and in 1403 he was one of the jurors at the Cornwall inquisition held at Trevigro on the death of Edmund Earl of Stafford. William probably died before 1425, when son Robert Manaton appears as a juror. 

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Robert Manaton married the daughter of John Bicton

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Robert Manaton of Manaton was well placed in his relations. He was a second cousin to the cadet line of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon. His cousin Alexander Champernowne was the lord of the neighboring manor and borough of Callington.

Robert was one of the consenting parishioners at South Hill to the establishment of St. Mary's as the daughter church in Callington to the mother church of St. Sampson's in South Hill. His name is recorded in 1437 in relationship to this event.

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