William de Mobberley sheriff of Cheshire

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
William Mobberley, son and heir of the first William Mobberley, married Maud, daughter and heir of Robert Downes of Chorley, and Edmund Fitton gave all his lands in Chorley in free marriage with Margery his sister. Willaim was the sheriff of Chesire in 13 Edward II (1319). He died 1 Edward III (1327).

[According to Collin's Peerage of England, Vol. I p.p. 59-60, William's first two children, Raufe and Ciceley were children of his first unnamed wife.]

• Raufe Mobberly
• Cicely, married to John Dumbill of Mobberly, son and heir of John Dumbill of Oxton in Wirral.

The Children of William and Margery were:

• Elizabeth, married to Sir Hugh Venables of Kinderton.
• Margery, married to Richard Bold, of Bold in Lancashire
• Emme, married to Robert Grosvenor, of Holume in Allostock, who purchased the moiety of Nether Pever from William de Mobberley.
• Mary, who married Nicholas Leycester, son and heir of Roger Leycester of Tabley
• Joan, married to William Athurton in Lancashire
• Ellen, married to Richard Bromhale, of Bromhale, Cheshire
• Agnes, who never married

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol I, p. 415

William married Matilda de Downes, daughter of Robert Downes of Chorley and Margery Fitton. (Matild de Downes was born in Chorley.)