Adam (Bostock) of Bostock Knight (abt. 1412 - 1475)

Born about 6 Mar 1412 in Bostock, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Venables) de Bostock — married 1443 in Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died 30 Apr 1475 at about age 63 in Bostock, Cheshire, England

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Biography

Adam was the son of Sir Raph Bostock and Isabel, daughter and heir of William Lawton.^[1][2][3]

Sir Adam Bostock, Lord Bostock of Bostock, Cheshire (d. Apr 1475).^[4]

Adam married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Hugh Venables baron of Kinderton.^[1][2] They were married by or before 1443, when their son Adam was born. They had 9 children:^[1][2]

1. Adam (b. c. 1434 - d. Sep 1459 Battle of Blore Heath, age abt. 25), unmarried; no known heirs.
2. Rafe of Bostock m. Alice, dau. and coheir of Sir Thomas Dutton of Dutton, and was poisoned;^[1]
3. Ellin m. Humfrey Bostock of Mortensay in Salop.^[1]
4. Elizabeth "Maria" (will proved 1501) m. John Gatacre of Gataker, Shropshire.^[1][5]
5. Jane m. Sir Edward Holt;^[1]
6. Margery m. Lewis Eaton of Wildmore;^[1]
7. Margaret m. William Whitney. No surviving children;^[1]
8. William of Bostock, had 15 base children;^[1]
9. Nicholas of Morburley [Moberley],^[1] m. Katherine, dau. and coheir of Sir William Mobberley;^[6]

On 23 September 1459, Adam and his son Adam fought for the Lancastrians at Blore Heath,^[7]in Staffordshire. His son Adam, was killed by Yorkist forces.

Sir Adam, himself, survived the battle, dying in April 1475.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10} Rylands, 1904, p. 27-8.[1]
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Rylands, 1908.[2]
3. ↑ see Isabel Lawton's line of descent on her profile.
4. ↑ b. c. 06 Mar 1412).^{[citation needed]} His estimated marriage year is 1433, when he would have been aged 21. While the birth date is unsourced, it is quite plausible.^{[citation needed]}
5. ↑ Burke, B. (1898). "Gatacre of Gatacre," in A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, 9th ed, 1, pp. 573. Google Books.
   Elizabeth is called "Maria" in the Gatacre pedigree, (Grazebrook, G. & Rylands, J.P. (1889). "Gattacre of Gattacre: Harl 1396, fo 124b; Harl 1241, fo 77b; S, fo 118," in The Visitation of Shropshire 1623. Publications of the Harleian Society, 28, pp. 197. London. Google Books).
6. ↑ Rylands, 1904, p. 31.[3]
7. ↑ Wikipedia: Battle of Blore Heath

See also:

• "Bostock, MS Ashmole 852, pp. 22-23," (1869). The Publications of the Harleian Society, 57, pp. 76. London: Harleian Society. Google Books.

• Rylands, W.H. (1908). "Bostock," in The Four Visitations of Berkshire 1532, 1566, 1623, 1665-6, II, pp. 74-75. London: Mitchell, Hughes & Clarke. Google Books, Archive.org.

• Rylands, J.P. (1882). The Visitiation of Cheshire 1533, 1566, 1580, 1591. Harleian Society, 18. Google Books; Archive.org.

• Roberts, G.B. (2014). The royal descents of 600 immigrants to the American colonies or the United States, p. 507-08. Print.

• Bostock, A.J. (2012). The Ancient Bostock Family of Bostock. Web.