Margaret (Downes) Snede (bef. 1428)

Born before 1428 in Shrigley, Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in England

Biography

Margaret Downes was born before 1428 (assuming she was 21 years old when she had her son who was 30 years-old when he was mayor of Chester in 1479-80^[1]).

Margaret was the daughter and coheir of Robert Downes of Shrigley, co Chester, esq.^[1]

Margaret married Nicholas Snede of Bradwell.^[1] Bradwell was in Nantwich hundred, Cheshire, England. Nicholas was the son of Richard Snede of Bradwell and his wife, Agnes, the daughter of — (john?) de Sutton, co Chester.^[1]

Margaret and Nicholas had children:

1. William Snede of Bradwell and of Chester, citizen, alderman and mayor of the city, 19 Edward IV [4 March 1479-3 March 1480, see Regnal Calendar], living in 4 Henry VII [22 August 1488-21 August 1489, see Calendar], who married Joan or Alice, daughter and heir of Roger Ledsham of Chester, mayor of the city;^[1]

Nicholas was living in 23 Henry VI [1 September 1444-31 August 1445, see Calendar] and 1473.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} 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from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a republication of King's Vale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:492.