 It was this family which may have produced one of the greatest benefactors to education for the nation; Hugh Oldham.Richard de Oldham was recorded as lord of the manor of Werneth/Oldham (1354).His daughter and heiress, Margery (d.1384), married John de Cudworth (d.1384), from whom descended the Cudworth family of Werneth Hall who were successive lords of the manor of Werneth/Oldham.