William 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

• Background Information. ⁸²⁶
To Richard, rector of Stockport, and his heirs Matthew de Reddish granted four oxgangs of land in Denton, that was to say a moiety of the vill, at a rent of 12d. Robert, rector of Mottram, no doubt an heir of Richard, granted all his land in Denton, namely two oxgangs, to his daughter Cecily, at 1d. rent to the grantor and 5d. to the lamp of St. Mary at Manchester. Cecily was twice married-to a Norris of Heaton Norris and to Robert de Shoresworth. This Robert and Cecily his wife granted all their Denton lands, as well in demesne as in service, to their son William. Later, in 1299, Cecily as widow of Robert modified the gift by granting half her father's land to her son Alexander and his heirs, with reversion to William. William de Shoresworth had a son Robert, whose daughter Margaret inherited the Denton estate.

~ A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, Denton, pp. 311-322