[Illustration] This ancient family, which has been supposed to be of
Norman origin, was early seated at Diddlebury, (or Delbury,) in
Corvedale, which appears to have come from the heiress of Wigley.
Roger Baldwin of Diddlebury died anno 1398, and was the ancestor of
the family. Diddlebury was sold to the Cornewalls of Berrington in
the last century, when the Baldwins removed to Aqualate in
Staffordshire. Kinlet was the inheritance of the Childes, whose
coheiress married Charles Baldwin, Esq. The Childes derived it from
the Lacons, and the Lacons by inheritance from the Blounts of
Kinlet.
See Blakeway, p. 212.
ARMS.--_Argent, a saltire sable_.
Present Representative, Walter Lacon Childe, Esq.