Ancestry of W. H. Merklee
18G Grandparents (Continued)

1110608 Thomas MOORE. Buried abt 1407. Occupation: Mayor of Liverpool at various times between 1383 and 1407.

He married Margery.

They had one child:
555304 i. Robert (->1467)

1110609 Margery. Died aft 1408.

1110616 William IRELAND.

He married Ellen HANFORD.

They had one child:
555308 i. John (-1462)

1110617 Ellen HANFORD.

1110618 Sir William ATHERTON.

He married Margaret BYRON.

They had one child:
555309 i. Margery

1110619 Margaret BYRON.

1110624 Sir Peter GERARD Knt.  Born abt 1408. Died on 26 Mar 1447. Occupation: M.P. for Lancashire, England. Of: Kingsley, in the parish of Frodsham, co. Chester, and of Bryn, co. Lancaster, England.

He married Isabel STRANGEWAYS, bef 1431.

They had one child:
555312 i. Thomas (1431-1490)

1110625 Isabel STRANGEWAYS.  Died aft 26 Mar 1447.

1110626 Robert FOULSHURST.  Born on 17 Oct 1418. Died on 3 Dec 1498. Of: Crew, co. Chester, England.

He married Joan VERNON.

They had one child:
555313 i. Cecily (~1440-1502)

1110627 Joan VERNON.  Born on 3 Jul 1417. Died aft 1467.

1110628 Sir William STANLEY.  Born abt 1404. Died bef Mar 1465. Of: Hooton, co. Chester, England.

He married Mary SAVAGE, on 15 Dec 1424.

They had one child:
555314 i. William (~1439-1512)

1110629 Mary SAVAGE.  Died abt 1435.

1110630 Sir John BROMLEY. Died abt 1488. Of: Prob. Badington, co. Chester, England.

He married Joan HEXSTALL.

They had one child:
555315 i. Margaret (-1469)

1110631 Joan HEXSTALL.

1110632 Edmund TRAFFORD The Alchemist.  Born abt 1392. Died on 24 Jan 1457/8. Title: Lord of the Manor of Trafford, in Manchester, co. Lancaster, England.

Edmund Trafford, in company with Sir Thomas Assheton (father of Elizabeth Assheton, who married Edmund's son John), was granted a licence from the crown dated 9 March 1446 (24 Hen. VI), "encouraging [them] ... to pursue their experiments in alchemy, and forbidding any subject of the king to molest them."

He married Alice VENABLES, in 1411 in Eccles, England.

They had one child:
555316 i. John (>1408-1488)

1110633 Alice VENABLES.  Born abt 1398.

1110634 Thomas ASSHETON The Alchemist.  Born abt 1403. Died aft 1446.

Shortly after his father's death, evidently because of animosity toward his step-mother, he kidnapped his younger half-brother and refused to release him. He was still alive in 1446, in which year he, in company with Edmund de Trafford (father of John Trafford, who married Thomas's daughter Elizabeth), was granted a licence from the crown dated 9 March 1446 (24 Hen. VI), "encouraging [them] ... to pursue their experiments in alchemy, and forbidding any subject of the king to molest them." He and his wife (who was his stepmother's sister) are said to have had eleven children.

He married Elizabeth BYRON.

They had one child:
555317 i. Elizabeth

1110635 Elizabeth BYRON.

1110636 Sir John SAVAGE. (Same as ahnentafel number 277634.)

1110637 Eleanor BRERETON. (Same as ahnentafel number 277635.)

1110638 Thomas STANLEY. (Same as ahnentafel number 555300.)

1110639 Joan GOUSHILL. (Same as ahnentafel number 555301.)

1110640 Sir Peter LEGH.  Born in Jun 1415. Died in 1478 in Bradley. Of: Lyme in Handley, co. Chester, and of Haydock, in the parish of Winwick, co. Lancaster, England.

He was made a Knight Banneret after the Battle of Wakefield (1460).

He married Margaret MOLYNEUX.

They had one child:
555320 i. Peter (-1468)

1110641 Margaret MOLYNEUX.  Died on 13 May 1460 in Bradley.

1110642 James CROFT.  Died abt 1457. Of: Dalton, in Burton-in-Kendal, co. Lancaster, and of Yealand Conyers and Leighton, both in Warton, co. Lancaster, England. Title: Lord of the Manor of Dalton.

Child:
555321 i. Mabel (-1475)


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