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The earliest known owner of land at Flookersbrook was Arni of Neston (see: [https://opendomesday.org/name/arni-of-neston/ "Open Doomesday"]) - and his lands passed to [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ4168/newton-by-chester/ William son of Nigel], or fitz Nigel. Arni is possibly a Viking name, and it has been suggested, in "Viking Wirral" that his burial place is at "Arnehow" at [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gjwkEfX64MQC&pg=PA63 Oxton] - now a park known as "The Arno". Thus "Flookersbrook" can claim to have a Viking connection.
William FitzNigel is probaly the same who succeeded his father Nigel as baron of Halton and Constable of Chester. His gift to St Werburgh’s of "Neutona" (Newton by Chester, a manor of 1 hide) with the service of Hugh fitz Udard, was included in the almost certainly forged confirmation of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_d%27Avranches,_2nd_Earl_of_Chester Earl Richard] dated 1119 (Barraclough, Charters of the Earls of Chester, 14–16, no. 8)<ref>[https://ia801205.us.archive.org/31/items/Chartersoftheearlsofchester/Chartersoftheearlsofchester.pdf RSLC vol CXXVI]</ref>:
* '''"Willelmus constabularius dedit Neutonam simul cum servicio Hugonis filii Udardi de quatuor bovatis, et cum servicio Wiceberni de duabus bovatis."'''
"Udard" or "Odard" is often said to be the ancestor of the Duttons, but there is considerable doubt about much of the ancestry of Cheshire gentry. The arguments that this is a forgery hinge on the fact that there seems little reason for a young earl of 25, who in 1119 could not have known he was to drown the following year in the wreck of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ship "White Ship"], to draw up such a convenient list of donations to the church made "''in meo tempore ecclesie sancte Werburge Cestrie''" ("in my time to the church of St Werburgh of Chester"). Also, Richard was in Normandy from October 1118 and for most of 1119 and into 1120. Richard did spend some time in England, but monks are sometimes notorious for faking grants of land. A (possibly also) forged confirmation in the name of Earl Ranulf II adds the information that his deed was witnessed by Ralph the steward, who was in the habit of donating his master's property to the church while Ranulf was held by enemies.
The transfer of Newton (including Flookersbrook) from someone of possible Viking ancestry to the Normans (by conquest), and then to the Church (under dubious circumstances), was the start of a recorded series of disputes over the ownership and access to the Flookersbrook corner of Hoole (or as some might see it, Newton) which continued for centuries.
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