Nicholas d'Ewyas

  General Notes:

~From the footnotes of The Coucher Book on Chartulary of Whalley-Abbey, Vol. I, pg. 121 ⁸²³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁵
The Visitation of Lancashire by William Flower, 1567, show John Devyas, of Yorkshire married to the daughter and one of the heires of Wir William Samlesbury of Samlesbury, Lancashire, Knight. They are shown having a son named Nicholas Devyas who has a daughter, the sole heir who marries Gilbert Sowthworthe of Southworthe. (Southworth)
~Visitation of Lancashire by William Flower, 1567, pg. 26

• Background Information. ⁸²³
Nicholas, the son or grandson of Sir John d'Ewyas and Cecily de Samlesbury, died without male issue, leaving a daughter married to Sir Gilbert de Southworh, and her portion of the manor continued in this family until the year 1677, when John Sourthworth, Esq. sold it and the Hall to Thomas Braddyll, Esq. for little more than £2000.

~ The Coucher Book on Chartulary of Whalley-Abbey, Vol. I, pg. 89 & 90

Nicholas married Joan wife of Nicholas d'Ewyas. (Joan wife of Nicholas d'Ewyas was born in 1280.)