- Name: Claron of Westmarcham
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Notes: In the Domesday Book, the land of Westmarcham, later known as West Markham or Little Markham, and today as Markham Clinton, was held by one Claron.
The Markham family is thought to have originated in the adjacent Nottinghamshire villages of West Markham and East Markham. Claron, a Saxon chief, was said in the Domesday Book of 1088 to hold land at Westmarcham. Claron and his descendants are be lieved to have adopted the surname "de Marcham".
After the battle of Hastings, when England was parcelled out among the followers of the Conqueror, West Markham became the fee of Roger de Busli, who already held numerous estates in Nottinghamshire. Under de Busli it was held by Claron, whose fam ily had been long resident there; and it was Claron's successors who adopted as their surname the place of their abode - "de Marcham." Claron was succeeded in the landed possessions by his son Roger. There is little further known of these me n in that early age, except that they were in possession of the lands, and that a "de-Marcham" also held a Manor in " East Marcham" in the reign of Henry the First.
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