"Roger Strickland was a member of a younger, Yorkshire, branch of an eminent Westmorland landed family. Walter Strickland, his grand- father, of Nateby Hall, Garstang in Lancashire, and his wife Anne (daughter of Roger Croft who owned property in East Appleton and Catterick near Richmond in Yorkshire) had had two sons: Robert Strickland and Sir Roger Strickland." -- p. 1.