Alain le Norreys of Formby and Haigh, Lancashire

   Another name for Alain was Alane le Noreis.

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁹
Alan le Norris was the founder of the Speke Norris line, as father of Alan and John, the acquirers of material interest in Speke. This Alan is also the father of Robert and Henry.

Alan's second son, Herny, was of Daresbury. Alan, Robert and John were witnesses to a Daresbury Charter in which Henry quitclaims land between Daresbury and Acton Grange to the Monks , as "Dominus de Daresbury." Also within this charter is, "Hiis testivus, Alano, Robert et Johanne le Norreys fratribus meis." [Whalley Coucher Book, p. 412] which gives us the name of his brothers.

Ormerod, the auther of the article, using documentation, shows that the Alan and John who were the brothers of Henry, were also the Alan le Norreys and John le Norreys of Speke. He points out that Alan, John, Henry and Robert were all living at the same time, plus he found no others of these names that occur in that place or at that time. This makes this Alan, father of Alan, Henry, Robert and John, and the comman ancestor of both the Speke Norreys' line and the Daresbury Norreys' line. As further evidence, Alan also appears as a witness to the grants that Sir Patrick Haselwell gave two his two daughter who married Alan's sons, Alan and John of Speke.

~Ormerod, " Memoir of the Lancashire House of Le Noreis or Norres, and of it Speke Branch in Particular," Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, ser.1 v.2 1849-1850, pp. 142-148

• Background Information. ⁹²⁰
Alan le Norreys of Formby had atleast three sons, Henry, Alan and John. Alan, the son, married Margery, the daughter of Sir Patrick de Haselwell. About the same time, Sir Patrick's daughter, Nichola married one of the other sons, John. Sir Patrick granted each of his son-in-laws a hald of the Haselwell moiety.

~A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, pp. 131-140

• Web Reference: Le Norreys of Speke. ⁹²³
Alan and his wife Margaret had at least seven sons and two daughters. They were:
Hugh le Norreys of Blackrod and Haigh, Lancashire
Simon le Norreys of Ditton, Lancashire
Robert le Norreys of Blackrod, Burtonhead and Halsnead, Lancashire
Alan le Norreys of Hale, Ditton and Formby Lancashire
Richard le Norreys of Halsnead and Burtonhead, Lancashire and Ockholt, Berkshire
Emma le Norreys of Haigh, Lancashire
John le Norreys of Speke, Lancashire
Henry le Norreys
Joan le Norreys, who married Thomas Danyers of Bradley Lancashire

Alain married Margery de Haigh.⁹²³ (Margery de Haigh died after 1292 in Lancashire, England ⁹²³.)