Elizabeth Fitton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 29 October 1485.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is recorded in a writ of livery (RDKPR p. 217).

Relationships

Father: Thomas Fitton.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 41).

Mother: Ellen Mainwaring.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 41).

Spouse: Thomas de Weever.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 42).

Spouse: Hugh Ewlowe.

This relationship is given by Earwaker (2:597) and by Ormerod (2:209).

Children (by Thomas):

Elizabeth Weever married (1) John Stanley; married (2) Sir John Done.

Evidence

Property:

(according to her inquisition post mortem as given by Earwaker (2:597))

-a third of the manor of Wevere, in dower

-lands in Alderley, in dower

References

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).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).

The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1876).