Joan de Molyneux

  General Notes:

~Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, ser.1 v.2 1849-1850, pedigree on pages 150-151, wife of Robert Erneys, with whom her father gave Speke in frank marriage. ⁷²⁹

~Visitation of Lancashire by Sir William Dugdale, Vol. II, 1665-5, Molineux of Sefton pedigree, p.204 ⁷⁵¹

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁹
In Dugdale's Visitation in 1664, it is stated that Annota, only daughter and heir of Benedict Gernet, was the wife of Adam Molines. The Speke extract from the old Lanchsire Feodary makes Roger Gernet the grantor in frank marriage, and Richard Molyneux the receiver. [C 37, coll. Arm.] Later the manor of Speke was given to to William Erneys by Richard Molyneux, kinsmans and heir, and the former Molyneux was grantee from Gernet.

Dugdale names the husband as Robert Erneys, and the bride as Joan, daughter of Sir William and sister of Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton. Gregory King, Lancaster Herald, and well read in Molyneux and Blundell Charters, is most precise. "This Sir William did grant his manor of de Speke in marriage with Joan his daughter, to Robert Erneys, with ward and relief of Sir Patric de Haselwal, to hold of him for xvi pence by the year." Alice Erneys, daughter of Joan Molyneux and Robert de Erneys, brought this manor in marriage to Sir Henry Norreys.

~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, p. 153

Joan married Robert Erneys, son of Richard Erneys and Unknown ^729,751.^,519 (Robert Erneys died about 1292-1293 in Cheshire, England ⁹²⁰.)