Robert Shoresworth

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: Shoresworth of Lancs - ancestral to the Worsleys & Booths . ¹⁹³
From: mjcarATbtinternet.com
Subject: Shoresworth of Lancs - ancestral to the Worsleys & Booths
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:13:33 -0700 (PDT)

The Visitation of Lancs, 1664-5, gives a pedigree for the Worsley family which includes this element:

1. Henry de Worsley, married secondly "daughter of Schoresworth"; issue:

2. Robert de Worsley, of Booths; married Cicely Bramhall; issue:

3a. William de Worsley
3b. John de Worsley
3c. Ellen de Worsley, married Thomas Booth [ancestor of the Booth family]

Some further particulars of the Shoreworths are given in VCH Lancs, vol 3, sub Denton. This allows us to construct the following initial stemma for them:

A. Robert, parson of Mottram; had a daughter:

B. Cecily, ff 1299, married (i) - Norris; (ii) Robert de Shoresworth, dead by 1299; issue by both marriages:

C1. William Norris - had a son, Robert Norris, ff 1310
C2. Alexander de Shoresworth, ff 1281-1330
C2. William de Shoresworth, had issue:

D. Robert de Shoresworth, ff 1281; had issue:

E. Margaret de Shoresworth, ff 1348; married firstly by 1292 [VCH Lancs, vol 4, sub Worsley, n 19] Henry de Worsley; married secondly by 1305 [ibid] Robert de Radcliffe. She also had a son, Thurstan, by Sir William de Holand, who was assigned lands at Denton by his mother's great-uncle in 1325-6 and left issue.

I have seen a death-date of 1363 assigned to Margaret, but am not yet convinced that this is accurate.

MA-R

Robert married Cecily.