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Sir William Molyneux Esquire
(-1372)
Johannah Ellal
Sir Robert Holand Knight
(1312-1372)
Margaret Heyton
(1314-)
Sir William de Molyneux Knight
(Abt 1330-)
Jane Holand
(Abt 1338-Bef 1372)

Sir Richard de Molyneux of Sefton, Sheriff of Lancashire
(Abt 1360-1397)

 

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Ellen Urswick

Sir Richard de Molyneux of Sefton, Sheriff of Lancashire

  • Born: Abt 1360, England
  • Marriage: Ellen Urswick 718,751
  • Died: 27 Feb 1397, Sefton, West Derby, Lancashire, England about age 37

bullet  General Notes:


~"Urswick Pedigree" from Records of the Family Urswyk, Urswick, or Urwick, p. 8 751

~Visitation of Lancashire by Sir William Dugdale, Vol. II, 1665-5, Molineux of Sefton pedigree, p.204-205 746

bullet  Information about this person:

• Titles: High Sheriff of Lancashire, 1397. 168

• Background Information. 716
Sir William the eldest son of his father. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Holland, and they had a son, Sir Richard Molins, or Molyneux, who married Ellen, daughter of Sir Thomas Urswich, and deceasing 1397, by her (who afterwards married Sir Thomas Savage) had three sons, Richard, Adam and Robert. Adam was Bishop of Chester and keeper of the privy-seal in the reign of King Henry VI and was murdered at Portsmouth in 1449. Robert married Margret, daughter of Sir Baldwin le Strange, and left an only child, Edith, who married Adam Troutback, Esq. Whose daughter Margret married Sir John Talbot of Grafton, ancestor by her of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford. Richard settled at Sefton, and eminently distinguished himself at the battle of Aguencourt, where he was knighted.

Sir Richard married first, Joan, daughter of Sir Gilbert Haydock, of Bradley, widow of Sir Peter Leigh of Lyme, and had eight sons and three daughters: Catherine, married first, John Stanhope, Esq., and second, Sir Radcliffe, of Swithells. Genet to Robert, Vis Gormanston; Elizabeth to Sir Robert Southworth.

His second wife was Helen, daughter to Sir William Harrington of Hornby and widow of ____ Ratcliff of the Tower in Lancaster, Esq.; by whom he had two daughters. Anna married Sir Richard Nevil of Tevefedge, in Yorkshire; and Margaret to Sir Peter Leigh of Lyme, Knight.

~History, Genealogical and Biographical, of the Molyneux Families, pg. 9-11


Richard married Ellen Urswick, daughter of Sir Thomas Urswick Knight, Esquire and Johanna Hertforth 716.,751 (Ellen Urswick was born about 1364 in Erswick, Lancashire, England.)


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