[Illustration] There is a good pedigree of this, his own family, in
Ormerod's History of Cheshire, (ii. p. 204,) under Chorlton, a seat
of the family purchased in 1811. The first recorded ancestor is
Matthew de Hormerodes, living about 1270. The elder line of his
descendants, whose name was derived from Ormerod in Whalley, became
extinct in 1793. The present family trace their lineage from George
Ormerod, fourth son of Peter Ormerod, of Ormerod, who died in 1653.
See also Whitaker's Whalley, p. 364.
ARMS.--_Or, three bars, and in chief a lion passant gules_.
Present Representative, George Ormerod, Esq.