Thomas (Legh) of Adlington (1547 - 1602)

Born Jan 1547 in Adlington, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Sibila (Brereton) Leigh — married 29 Jun 1563 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died 25 Jan 1602 at about age 55 in Adlington, Cheshire, England

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Biography

Thomas Ligh of Adlington, son and heir of Thomas Leigh of Adlington, esq, and his wife, Mary Grosvenor, daughter of Richard Grosvenor of Eaton,^[1] was born in January 1548; he was 1 year 9 months and 3 weeks old on 16 November, 1549.^[1]

Thomas built Adlington Hall in 1581.^[1] He bought the manor and advowson of Prestbury and was sheriff of Chester in 1588.^[1]

Thomas married Sibila Brereton^[2] on 29 June, 1563, at Cheadle St Mary, Chester.^[3] Sybilla was the daughter of Margaret Hanford, sole heir of her father, William Hanford, and mother, Sybil Scargill, and Sir Urian Brereton, knight,^[2] the son of Sir Randoll Brereton of Mallpas (Malpas), Knight Banerett and Elenor, daughter to Peirs Dutton of Dutton.^[4] Thomas and Sybel had children:^{[2] [1]}

1. Sir Urian Leigh, of Adlington, heir, baptised at Cheadle in 1566, knighted at Cadez 1596, died at Adlington 2 June 1627, married to Margaret, the daughter of Sir Edmund Trafford, co Lanc, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Ralph Leicester of Toft, co Chester. Sir Urian and Margaret have a son:
   1. Thomas, heir;
   2. Urian;
   3. Mary; and
   4. Lucy;
2. Captain Thomas Leigh, baptised at Cheadle on 26 August 1568, slain at Blackwater in Ireland, 1598;
3. Mary, baptised at Cheadle on 2 November, 1569, buried at Manchester 25 July 1638, married to 1) John Glazier of Lea, son and heir of William Glasiar of Chester, and 2) Sir John Bentley of Breadsall, co Derby;
4. Edward, baptised at Prestbuy 29 January 1570/1571;
5. Ranulph/Ralph/Raffe, baptised at Prestbury 27 November 1572; slain at Newry in Ireland;
6. Elizabeth, baptised at Prestbury 4 August 1574, married 1) Richard son of Sutton of Sutton, co Chester, esq, and his wife Ellen, daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux and 2) Thomas Molyneux of Hawkley, co Lancaster;
7. Joan, buried at Prestbury, 28 January 1575/6;
8. Frances, baptised at Prestbury 1 May 1577, buried 4 September 1577;
9. Dorothy, baptised at Prestbuy on 29 July 1578, buried 19 May 1582; and
10. Margaret, baptised at Prestbury 19 June 1582, buried at Stockport 3 October 1653, married 1) Henry Arderne of Harden, co Cheshire, esq, and 2) William Davenport of Bramhall, co Chester, esq, son and heir of Sir William Davenport of Bramhall, knight.

Thomas died on 25 January 1601/1602 and was buried at Prestbury on 26 January.^{[2] [1]} He made his will on 20 November 1600 and an Inquisition post mortem was held on 7 October 1602,^[1] 44 Elilzabeth, which found Sir Urian Legh, knight, son and heir, aged upwards of 35 years.^[5]

In the east window of the Adlington chancel of Prestbury St Peter's, there was an armorial shield of stained glass with a Latin inscription, which roughly translated is "Pray for Thomas Legh of Adlington esquire et Sibilla his wife and daughter of Urian Brereton de Handford knight deceased who made this window in the year of our Lord 1601.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Frederich Arthur Crisp, ed., Visitation of England and Wales, 9, (S.E.: Grove Park Press, 1911), accessed 14 May 2014, https://archive.org/stream/visitationofengl30howa#page/94/mode/2up pp.94-97.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} John Paul Rylands, FSA, ed., "Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral Certificates; AD 1600 to 1678", The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Chester, VI, (Manchester: The Record Society, 1882), accessed 5 June 2014, https://archive.org/stream/cheshireandlanc00britgoog#page/n167/mode/2up pp.124-5.
3. ↑ Cheshire Parish Register Database, Cheshire Parish Register Project, (2011), (https://cprdb.csc.liv.ac.uk/ : accessed 23 August, 2022). [Database search: Marriage, Surname = Brereton, Request page=1. Keycode=CHDLM00100485.10027; PADVER= chdlM0485.1].
4. ↑ John Paul Rylands, ed., The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset herald, for William Flower, Norroy king of arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same herald. With an appendix, containing The visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms. And a fragment of the visitation of the city of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, deputy to the Office of arms, (London: Harleian Society, 1882), https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/44/mode/2up pp.44, 46.
5. ↑ George Ormerod, ed., "Containing the hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield; Appendix and General Index", 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, Vol. III, (London: Lackington, Hughs, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819), accessed 5 June 2014, https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp03orme#page/332/mode/2up pp.333-4.
6. ↑ George Ormerod, ed., "Containing the hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield; Appendix and General Index", 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, Vol. III, (London: Lackington, Hughs, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819), accessed 5 June 2014, https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp03orme#page/330/mode/2up pp.330.

• Croston, James. The Register Book of Christenings, Weddings, and Burials with the Parish of Prestbury in the county of Chester, 1560-1636., The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire (1881) Vol. 5.

• Page 153: Buryalles, 1601. Adlington, Thomas Leighe, Esquyer, dyed xxvth day, buryed the xxvjth Jan. (Also see footnote.) "By a curious mistake this death was registered under date Feburary 5th in the preceding year."