There are many Morley families with North Yorkshire ancestry. We haven't examined North Riding Morley families' genealogies very closely, but it seems possible that many tie in with the Normanby Morleys.

The link between Berkhamsted and Normanby is claimed in a Hertfordshire visitation pedigree, and there is primary evidence to support this: James Morley appears a 1605 land transaction involving Normanby and Ormesby, with his (future?) father-in-law Henry Drake (a Cursitor of the Court of Chancery) as a counterparty [Yorkshire Stuart Fines, vol. I, p. 41]. Later, in 1612, James Morley (now himself a cursitor of the Court of Chancery) is involved in transactions in Maltby and nearby Newby and Seamer (with his wife Elizabeth involved in the latter) [ibid., p. 181]. James heads the 1634 Hertford visitation pedigree, styled as "of Barkhampsted, co. Hertf., one of the six Clarks of the Chancery, 1635".

James was dead by 1656. Elizabeth Morley, widow, was administrator. Elizabeth was dead by 1659, when Henry Morley took over administration [YAS vol. I (1885) p. 249].

There were later Morleys in Berkhamsted, not yet connected with the family mentioned in the visitation:

• Benjamin Morley, grocer; legatee under will of Joanna Cook (formerly Joanna Neale) of Frithsden, Pitstone, Bucks.; his probate 1730 describes him as "Benjamin Morley of Frolesworth, Leics., gent."; will mentions land in Luton [formerly hald by Benjamin's cousin George Topping] and also Berkhamsted.
• Two John Morleys (father and son) are connected in the early 1800s with Little Heath in the Honour of Berkhamsted [A2A abstracts, Ashridge II collection, Berhkhamsted; AH 495 and elsewhere].

The same Hertfordshire visitation pedigree claims that the Morleys of Normanby were descended from one "S'r Henery Morley of Hertkeild in the County of Durham", temp. Henry III and present at the Battle of Lewes. I initially suggested that this Henry could have been confused with Henry de Maulay [Benjamin L Wild, A Captive King: Henry III between the Battles of Lewis and Evesham, 1264-5, Thirteenth Century England XIII: Proceedings of the Paris Conference 2009, p. 43]. Indeed, a Peter de Mauley was a sub-tenant at Stainsby in 1367 ['Parishes: Stainton', A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 (1923), pp. 293-300]. That suggestion was before I found Alan Swindale's notes on Hertkeld, which indicate (citing Bishop Hatfield's survey) that Sir Henry de Merley of Hertkeld was a knight bachelor present at the battle of Lewes, and that Hertkeld is probably near present-day Howden-le-Wear.

Whatever the identity of Henry, the generations between Henry and Nicholas Morley (fl. 1434) are not stated. The arms incorporate a Jessant-de-lis, with a golden crescent for difference. Traditionally this is the cadency mark of a second son. And the Jessant-de-lis arms are more closely associated with the Morleys of Wennington (and families claiming descent from them).

Harry Speight mentions on the heraldic similarities between the Normanby and Wennington Morleys. (Whether he is correct in assigning the jessant-de-lis arms to the Tadcaster Morleys is still an open question.) He also remarks on the Catherine wheel quartering used by the Newton-upon-Ouse Morleys. Since the Berkhampstead Morleys also used this quartering, it must predate the most recent common ancestor of the Newton-upon-Ouse and Berkhamstead Morleys: Cuthbert Morley, husband of Ann Thornaby and Isabel Wilson. Speight annotates the Catherine wheel remark with "see Dodson of Kirkby Overblow". If he is referring to the Dodson pedigree from his Kirkby Overblow book, I fail to see the connection. The closest match I have found to the Catherine wheel coat of arms is the one assigned to the Cartington family, but their wheels are or rather than argent. The third quartering in the Newton-upon-Ouse Morley arms belongs to the Maltby family. The fourth quartering is similar to arms borne by the Seymour family.

In 1449, John de Morley and Nicholas Morley, amongst others, were commissioned to collect a tax in the North Riding of Yorkshire [CFR xviii, p. 128]. Three years earlier, one John Morley had been commisioned for the same purpose in Lancashire [ibid., p. 41].

Nicholas and John appear, with John's wife, in a 1456 final concord. The wording of the agreement seems to indicate that these lands came from Agnes' side of the family.