Ralfe de Vernon Rector of Hanwell

   Another name for Ralfe was Ralph de Vernon.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁷⁶
Ralph was the rector of Hanwell, and succeeded his brother to the barony, but after a long suit with his three nieces. It was agreed the barony should be divided; his nieces and their husbands to have one hald, with the salt-works of Namptwich, called the Juggarhouse; and that Ralph should have the other half, including the manor of Minshul Vernon, and the capital manor of Shipbroke. This Ralph levied a fine of his lands in Shipbroke in 19 Edward II.

~Collins's Peerage of England, pgs. 397-398

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
~Ormerod's The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, "Vernon of Shipbrook Pedigree," p. 252,

Ralph de Verson, a priest, rector of hanwell, who recovered a moiety of the barony from his nieces. His son was Sir Ralph de Vernon, Knight who married first, Mary, daughter of the Lord of Darce of the north, and married second, Maud Grosvernor, sister of Robert Grosvenor of Budworth.

• Background Information. ⁸²³
Ralph, son of Alda Malbank and Warin de Vernon, baron of Shipbrook, was rector of Hanwell. On the death of his nephew, the son of Warin de Vernon, he entered on the barony, and retained possession against his nieces. An arrangement was made whereby they had on moiety of the barony and the manor of Leftwich, and he retained the other moiety with the capital manor of Shipbrook, which he settled on his illegitimate son, Ralph de Vernon.

~The Coucher Book, Or Chartulary, of Whalley Abbey, Vol. II, p. 479