Richard Leigh (1485)

Born 1485 in England

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Died [date unknown] in England

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Biography

Richard Leigh of Westhall in High Ligh in Cheshire^[1] was the son of Richard Leigh alias Legh and his wife, Beatrix, the daughter of Geffrey Boidell alias Bedellof Pulcroft.^{[2] [3]} Richard was the grandson of Thomas Leigh who married 1) Dowce Booth, the daughter of Sir William Bouth^[3] of Dunham, and 2) Jane, the daughter of John Holcroft of Holcroft in Lancashire.^[2]

No siblings are recorded for Richard in the 1580 Visitation of Cheshire, perhaps because his father died quite young, predeceasing his father Thomas.^[2]

Richard married twice:

• Rose, the daughter of Rafe Davenport of Davenport, by indenture dated 20 Henry VII which stated they were to be married by the feast of the Nativity of our Lady next^[3] alias Damport of Damport, with whom Richard had:^[2]
  1. Thomas, married Katherine, the daughter of Jane and her late husband, Rafe Ligh of Esthall, by indenture dated 1 Henry VIII^[3] and they had no surviving children, and after Thomas' death Katherine married Richard Donne;
  2. Parnell;
  3. Anne, who married Rafe Massy of Sherbrough;
• Anne, the sister of Richard Hough of Leighton, with whom Richard had:
  1. Richard Leigh of High Leigh in Cheshire and of Ockley in co Buckingham, esq, who married 1) Clemence, the daughter of Sir John Holcroft of Holcroft, and 2) Margery the daughter of Cooke of Chester, widow to George Tirrell of Thornton in Buckingham, esq;
  2. George;
  3. John Leigh, 4th son, who married Mary the daughter to Alexander Barlow;
  4. Dorothy Leigh, died on 18 April 1601 and was interred in Malpas Church on 21st, married David Massy of Broxone, Co Chester, esq;^[1] that is Broxton.

He lived at West Hall, High Leigh, Cheshire, England^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} John Paul Rylands, FSA, ed., "Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral Certificates; AD 1600 to 1678", The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Chester, VI, (Manchester: The Record Society, 1882), 146, Internet Archive https://archive.org/stream/cheshireandlanc00britgoog#page/n189/mode/2up : accessed 26 April 2016).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} John Paul Rylands, ed., "The Visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy king of arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same herald. With an appendix, containing the Visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms. And a fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, deputy to the Office of arms", The Publications of the Harleian Society, XVIII, (London: Harleian Society, 1882), 146, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/146/mode/2up : accessed 8 April 2016).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} "The Visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 with numerous additions and continuations, made in the year 1566, in the year 1533, the City of Chester in the year 1591", 143, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/142/mode/2up).
4. ↑ L. G. Pine, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 17th edition, (London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952), page 1504

See Also:

• George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 3 vols. 2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby (Ludgate Hill, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), vol. 1 p. 453.
• ThePeerage