Mary (Brereton) Warburton (1520 - abt. 1590)

Born 1520 in Brereton cum Smethwick, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of John Warburton — married 20 Jan 1539 in Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died about 10 Dec 1590 at about age 70 in Cheshire, England

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Biography

Mary Brereton was born in 1520 [she was aged 18 by 20 January, 1539^[1]].

Mary was the daughter of Sir William Brereton^[1] of Brereton, Cheshire.

An indenture made on 20 January, 1538/9, detailed a settlement by Sir Peter Warburton and his wife Elizabeth to Sir William Brereton of lands in Malpas, Duckington, Barton, Tilston, Caldecott, Shocklach, and Cuddington, Cheshire, on the marriages of:

• William Brereton, aged 18, cousin [grandson] and heir apparent of Sir William Brereton (son of William, son of Sir William) and Jane Warburton, aged 12, daughter of Sir Peter Warburton and his wife Elizabeth; and
• John Warburton, aged 15, son and heir of Sir Peter Warburton and his wife Elizabeth, and Mary Brereton, aged 18, daughter of Sir William Brereton.^[1]

Mary was therefore the same age as William Brereton, her nephew.

Mary and John had children:

1. Sir Peter, oldest son, died 22 July 1626, barrister-at-law, justice of the Common Pleas, married Mary the daughter of Sir John Holcroft, knight, of Holcroft;^[2]
2. George who married Elizabeth, the sister of Thomas Hesketh, esq, and widow of Alexander Houghton, esq, of Houghton;^[2]
3. John;^[2]
4. Anne, who was married to Sir Robert Markham, knight, of Cotham, co Notts.^[2]

Mary's husband, Sir John, died in 1572, in his fifty-second year and was buried in the church of Great Budworth.^[2] Or he died in 1575, according to the inscription on the red-stone altar tomb in the Warburton chapel of the St Mary and All Saints church in Great Budworth: —

"Hic jacet Joh'es de Warburton de Arley, in com. Cestr. miles qui duxit in uxorem Mariam, filliam Willi' Brereton de Brereton, in com. PRD militis per quam habuit quatuor filios, quinque filias. Obiit in anno 1575, aetatis suae 52. Qui fuit in religione co'stans, amator literamu' et amicu' pauperu'."^[3]

Perhaps the unnamed spouse of John Warburton buried on 10 December 1590, at Great Budworth, Cheshire, was this Mary?^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Description of 'Settlement, 20 Jan 1538/9. Warburton of Arley Charters. University of Manchester Library. GB 133 ARL/12/29', Archives Hub website, (https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-arl/arl/12/29 : accessed 28 August, 2022).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} John Burke, Esq, The Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions or High Official Rank; but Uninvested with Heritable Honours, Vol. II, (London: Henry Colburn, 1835), accessed 8 August 2014, https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalheral02burk#page/2/mode/2up pp.3.
3. ↑ Sir Stephen R Glynne, Bart, "Notes on the Churches of Cheshire", Remains Historical & Literary connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Ed. Rev James A Atkinson, MA, DCL, Vol 32 - New Series, (Manchester: The Chetham Society, 1894), accessed 8 August 2014, https://archive.org/stream/notesonchurches01glyngoog#page/n60/mode/2up pp.46.
4. ↑ "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F3BV-1QH : accessed 08 Aug 2014) Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2262979.