Agnes Hesketh

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Agnes’s husband, Lawrence, was born about 1375.

Date of Death: 3 January 1442.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Richards (p. 41) and by Earwaker (2:564).

Relationships

Father: unknown.

The arms on a window formerly in the church at Gawsworth identified Agnes as a member of the Hesketh family (Croston p. 118). She does not appear in the discussion of Hesketh family in the Lancashire VCH (6:sub Rufford). Perhaps she was a granddaughter of the Sir William Hesketh who fought at Crecy.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Sir Lawrence Fitton.

This relationship is given by Richards (p 41) and by Ormerod (3:552).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Richards.)

Thomas Fitton (died 16 July 1449) married Ellen Mainwaring.

Hugh Fitton.

John Fitton.

Randle Fitton.

Richard Fitton (slain 1459 at Blore Heath).

Edward Fitton (slain 1459 at Blore Heath).

Lawrence Fitton (died 29 March 1434), bailiff of Sonning, Berkshire.

William Fitton (slain 1459 at Blore Heath).

Ellen Fitton married John Fitton of Pownall.

Elizabeth Fitton married William Mere of Mere, Cheshire.

Joan Fitton married Robert Grosvenor of Hulme.

Alice Fitton married Robert de Davenport.

References

Croston, James. Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire (London, 1882).

Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880).

A History of the County of Lancaster volume 6 (Victoria County Histories, 1911).

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).

Richards, Raymond. The Manor of Gawsworth (Manchester: E.J.Morten, 1974; first published 1957).