Ellen (Thornton) Hogh (abt. 1300 - 1363)

Born about 1300 in Thornton, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1363 at about age 63 in Dutton, Cheshire, England

Biography

Birth

Birth Date: ABT 1300 Place: Thornton, Cheshire

Parents

Ellen was the daughter and heir of Roger de Thornton, and his wife, the daughter and heir of William de Leghton.^[1]

William, Ellen's maternal grandfather, together with John Riseings, held Leighton of the barons of Montalt in 6 Edward II [8 July 132-7 July 1313].^[1] Leighton was in Wirral hundred in Cheshire, England.

Marriage

Ellen married Richard del Hogh, and brought the manors of Thornton Mayewe and Leghton to her husband.^[1]

Children

1. Henry del Hoche of Leghton and Thornton;^[2]
2. Joan, the wife of Thomas, son of John de Capenhurst;^[2]

In 27 Edward III [1353], Richard del Hogh and Ellen, in her right, claimed a weir in the Dee at Leghton and one in the Mersey at Netherbebyngton, and the right to make weirs in their own soil in Pulton in Walley.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} George Ormerod, "Containing the Hundreds of Edisbury, Wirral, and Broxton", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished MS Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), II:549.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, II:552.