Margaret (Legh) Fitton (abt. 1330 - 1379)

Born about 1330 in Bechton, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 12 Dec 1379 at about age 49 in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England

Biography

Margaret was the daughter of Peter de Legh.^{[1] [2]}

She and her sister, Elizabeth, were co-heirs of Peter de Legh of Betchton.^[3]

Margaret married Thomas Fyton, of Gouseworth.^[1]

Margaret and Thomas were the parents of:

1. Lawrence, son and heir, said at the Inquisition regarding his father, Thomas, in 21 Richard II [22 June, 1397, to 21 June, 1398], to be aged 22 years;^[1]

Margaret, Lady of Gawseworth and daughter of Peter Legh, died 2 Id. December, 1379.^[2] which was 12 December.

After Margaret's death, by the law of England, Thomas held a moiety of the manor of Becheton, of Elizabeth who was the wife of Nicholas de Audelegh, Kt., by knight's service, and of the yearly value of 20 marks; and of land called "Bancrofte" in Lostok-Gralam, held of John de Holford by the yearly service of a rose, and of the yearly value of 20s; that the reversion of the said moiety of the manor of Becheton, and of the land called "Bancrofte" pertained to Lawrence, son and heir of the said Thomas and Margaret.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix 6. Welsh Records. Calendar of Deeds, Inquisitions, and Writs of Dower, Enrolled on the Plea Rolls of the County of Chester.—Ric. 2 to Hen. 7." The Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [25 February 1868], (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1868), 61, e-Book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039450518?urlappend=%3Bseq=259%3Bownerid=34524648-258 : accessed 24 June, 2022).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} R Stewart-Brown, MA, "Fitton Obits," Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year 1922. Volume LXXIV. New Series—Volume XXXVIII (Liverpool: The Society, 1923), 157. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/transactionsofhi74hist/page/207/mode/1up : accessed 30 June, 2022). "These OBITES taken out of the Calender of an old Masse Booke att GOSEWORTH." Stewart-Brown says some entries in the list were made in the time of Edward Fitton of Gawsworth, who died in 1511. The last entries were made by Edward Fitton in 1573, after his mother's death and before his father's.
3. ↑ J. P. Earwaker, The History of The Ancient Parish of Sandbach, private circulation, 1890 (2018 facsimile edition), p.148. Google Books preview

See also:

• Earwaker, John Parsons, East Cheshire: Past and Present (London: Earwaker, 1877-80.), 2:564, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 942.71 E12 folio.
• Boyer, Carl, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell (Santa Clarita, CA: C. Boyer, 2001.), p. 107, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.2 A141-2.
• Ormerod, George, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (London: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, 1819.), 3:552, Family History Library, 942.71 H2or.