Margaret (Brereton) Mostyn (abt. 1518 - aft. 1576)

Ancestors

Wife of William Goodman — married about 1536 in Cheshire, England

Descendants

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Biography

Margaret Brereton

She passed away after 1576.

Research Notes

Helsby's revised edition of The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester contains the following information about Margaret Brereton:^[1]

• her father was Sir William Brereton of Brereton, Kt, buried 4 February, 1541 [? now 1542], son of Andrew and heir to his uncle, William Brereton of Brereton who died in 22 Henry VII, and when he married Margaret's mother, widower of Alice Savage, daughter of Sir John Savage;
• she had one elder half-brother, William Brereton, esq, married Anne Bouth of Dunham and had nine children with her before he predeceased his father;
• her mother was Eleanor Brereton, died in or after 4 Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Ralph Brereton of Ipstones. widow of — Egerton when she married Margaret's father;
• her parents had Margaret, Henry, Katherine, Elen, Anne, John, Richard and Mary;
• Margaret was married firstly to William Goodman, who was mayor of Chester in 1550 and died circa 1554;
• Margaret was married secondly to William Mostyn;

On 20 January, 1538/9, a settlement was made between Sir William Brereton [Margaret's father] and Sir Peter Warburton and his wife Elizabeth on the marriages of:

• William Brereton, aged 18, cousin [grandson] and heir apparent of Sir William Brereton (son of William, son of Sir William) [Margaret's nephew] 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 [Margaret's sister].^[2]

The Visitations of Hertfordshire: The Visitations of Hertfordshire contains a pedigree of Goodman of Rushdon in "Appendix II."^[3] The "Preface" states a copy of the Hertfordshire portion of Robert Cooke's 1572 visitation of Hertfordshire and Middlesex is contained in Harl. MS. 1546, however, the pedigrees in "Appendix II" are not from the visitation but were added to Harl. MS. 1546 by R Mundy.^[4] Unfortunately, Richard Mundy's work is unreliable; he was a seventeenth-century arms-painter who accompanied some heralds on visitations as a draughtsman, and produced over forty manuscripts; he usually conflated several visitations of a county then added to the pedigrees material from unspecified sources.^[5]

Mundy's pedigree of Goodman says:^[3]

William Goodman of Chester, living in 1536, married Alice, daughter of Rafe Grosvenor of Chester; and William and Alice were the parents of:

1. Adam Goodman, living in 1542, was the father of:
   1. William Goodman, living in 1580, married "Margerett", daughter of Sir William Brereton, Kt; and they were the parents of:
      1. Ursula, heir, who was married to Sir Thomas Moston.
   2. Christopher Goodman, a Divine; was the father of:
      1. George Goodman.

Sources

1. ↑ George Ormerod, "Containing the Hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield", 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), III:89. e-Book, HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924088434059?urlappend=%3Bseq=113%3Bownerid=13510798902313265-135 : accessed 12 February, 2023). Pedigree: Brereton and Holt of Brereton.
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 12 February, 2023).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Walter C Metcalfe, ed., "Appendix II," The Visitations of Hertfordshire, Made by Robert Cooke, Esq., Clarencieux, in 1572, and Sir Richard St. George, Kt., Clarencieux, in 1634, with Hertfordshire Pedigrees from Harleian MSS. 6147 and 1546. (London: The Harleian Society, Volume XXII, 1886) 145-46. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/visitationsofher22metc/page/145/mode/1up : accessed 14 February, 2023). Pedigree: Goodman of Rushdon.
4. ↑ Walter C Metcalfe, ed., "Preface," The Visitations of Hertfordshire, v.
5. ↑ G D Squibb, QC, Norfolk Herald Extraordinary, Visitation Pedigrees and the Genealogist 2nd edition (London: Pinhorns BCM, 1978), 8-9. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/visitationpedigr0000squi/page/8/mode/1up : accessed 14 February, 2023).