[Illustration] 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.