A Distinguished Yorkshire Family?

It has been stated that:

"the surname Menham emerged as a notable family name in the county of Yorkshire where they were recorded as a family of great antiquity seated as Lords of the manor and estates in that shire. This distinguished Yorkshire family were descended from the great Norman Baron, Hugh de Grente-Mesnil. The first settler Walter de Mainill received a grant of lands of Hilton in Snotterdon. They intermarried with other distinguished Lancashire and Yorkshire families and Robert Mennell married the daughter of Sir John Lancaster. They branched to Kilvington , Badley in Derbyshire, Hoarcross Hall in Staffordshire, Cambridge, Cornwall and Norfolk. Prominent amongst the family at this time was Walter de Mainill of Hilton."

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"The earliest recorded owners of Hilton were the Meynills, one of whom, Roger de Hilton, some time in the 12th century, granted to his brother, Walter de Mainill, lands in Snotterdon, and in 1203, William, grandson of the above Roger, granted the manor of Hilton to his brother, Hugo de Menil. Robert Meynill, of Hilton, his descendant, was appointed sergeant-at-law in 1547. From this family Hilton passed to the Morleys, of Normanby, who, in the time of Charles II., sold it to the Lowthers, of Marske."

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