Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: between 8 July 1388 and 9 September 1392.
Place of Death: unknown.
For the dates, see the information about the patrons of the church of Wistaston in the Evidence section below.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
It has been proposed that he was Richard de Blackenhall.
Mother: Annora de Wystanston.
This relationship appears in a case in the Chester Plea Rolls (Wrottesley, p. 277).
Spouse: Adam de Praers.
This relationship is recorded in a list of patrons of the church at Wistaston. See also Ellen’s daughter’s page.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Ellen (died after 1427) married Hugh de Malpas.
Evidence
Patrons of the church of Wistaston (Ormerod 3:334-5):
1388, viij die Julij.
Marg’ie que fuit ux’ Willi’ de Penreth, Elene que fuit ux’ Ade’ Praers, Joh’is fil Joh’is de Brascy & Elene ux’is ejus.
1392, ix die Septembr’.
Johannem filiu’ Willi’ Bressy Margar’ ux ejusd’ Hugone filiu’ Rog’ de Malpas Elena’ ux’ ejusd’.
References
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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).
Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls collected from the Pleadings in the Various Courts of Law, A.D. 1200 to 1500. (1905).