169. Sir John Harrington, Wayne's ancestor, invented the first flush toilet, "The John", 1500's.
There isn't a lot of history from the Middle Ages. The main stories of people's lives during those years comes from anyone who had royalty or nobility lines. One of Wayne's ancestral lines, the Harrington's, have interesting stories. This is the only ancestral line we have information for back to the 1100's. Most other lines begin in the 1500's or 1600's. About 1150, a century after the Norman conquest, (William the Conqueror from France) Osulf appeared in history, owning the Manor of Flemingby. He was undoubtedly of Norman ancestry since his descendants used the ancient Norman shield in their coat of arms. Large land holdings such as his were held by the Norman conquerors and their descendants, usually given to them by William The Conqueror, for help in battle. Often large manors were acquired by men without holdings, when they married a lady who inherited lands and manors. Robert, Osulf’s...
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