Margaret Mainwaring (abt. 1520 - bef. 1590)

Born about 1520 in Over Peover, Cheshire, England

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Biography

Margaret Mainwaring was one of the 3 daughters and co-heiresses of Sir Randle Mainwaring, Knight, of Over Peover, Cheshire, by his wife Elizabeth Brereton.^[1]

She married about 1540 Sir Arthur Mainwaring, Knight, of Ightfield, Shropshire.^[1] They had 1 son and 3 daughters:

• George
• Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas Aston
• Margery
• Mary, wife of Richard Cotton Esq

Margaret's husband Arthur Mainwaring was buried at Ightfield, Shropshire, England, 4 Sept 1590.^[1] Margaret died before her husband.^[1]

Ightfield is an ancient village, mentioned as ISTEFELT in the Domesday Book in 1086. It had its own priest which implies an established community which had its own church.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume III, page 94 #11
2. ↑ Ightfield at Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

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