Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Alice de Daresbury.
Henry’s wife is recorded as Alice in deeds. From the evidence given by Woods below, she appears to have been a Daresbury.
Brother: Nicholas.
This relationship is recorded in the County Court Roll (see below).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Matthew de Bechinton
John de Bechington
Margery de Bechinton married John Torond.
Evidence
from the County Court Roll (1 June 1260):
141. Robert de Pulle v. Henry de Becheton, Nicholas his brother, John Malbon and William son of William Sanson; for common of pasture in Lisenecark. Defendants said the place where pasture was sought had formerly been adjudged to be their free tenement, but plaintiff denied this. They then said the place was not in Lisenacark but in Pulton. The assize decided in favour of the plaintiff. (T. Damages 6d.)
158. Wirhale.-- The coroners present that the prior and monks of Bircheuet complain of wrongful distraint by Sir Hamon de Mascy; pedges, Henry de Becheton and Alan the young. Pedges for Sir Hamon, William de Mascy and Henry de Tranemor. A day of love. Afterwards the prior was essoined. Afterwards he did not prosecute and was amerced. (T. To await peace.)
from the County Court Roll (31 August 1260):
217. Robert de Pulle v. Henry de Becheton, John son of Ralph and Gilbert his brother, William Sampson and Adam Stondonisfot, for a tenement in Liscak, viz. a field called Heiefeld in Lisecark, from which the defendants had taken away the crop of heath (Jaun) and broom (genet). They reply that the field is not in Lisecark but in Pulton. Verdict for the plaintiff. Damages 6d. (T.)
from the Rylands Charters:
RYCH/1449
Poulton and Wallasey
no date [c. 1272-1285]
Grant and quitclaim by Henry Briht of Walleye to Philip de Banvile. Witness list: 'Hiis testibus domino Patricio de heslewelle, Rogero dunvile, Willelmo le Wall' de hoton, Bertramo de mell', Willelmo de prenton', Henrico de bechinton', Alano Juvene, Willelmo clerico et aliis.'
RYCH/1450
Poulton and Wallasey
no date [c. 1255-1285]
Bond of Robert de Walleye and Avicia, his wife, to Philip de Banvile. Witness list: 'Hiis testibus Bertramo de mell', Willelmo le Wallense, Willelmo Lancelino, Willelmo de prenton', Henrico de bechinton', Alano Juvene, Willelmo clerico et aliis.'
RYCH/1313
Mollington
no date [late 13th century]
Witness list: 'Hiis testibus Dominis Patricio de Haselwell, Rogero de Donvyle & Ricardo de Sandbache, militibus, Roberto de Pulle, Jacobo filio suo, Henrico de Bechington', Matheo filio suo, Johanne Torold, Hugone de Berleston', Roberto de Bebington' et aliis.'
RYCH/1314
Mollington
no date [late 13th century]
Grant by Henry, lord of Becheton [Betchton], to Richard de Hasyldene of land in Becheton. Witness list: 'Hiis testibus Thoma de Weloc, Ricardo de Bradewalle, Thoma de Hellewrye, Radulpho de Arclede, Ada de Le boye, Johanne clerico et multis aliis.'
from A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 1:
A.193
Cheshire
Release by Isabel de Derisburi, relict of Alan de Lascelis, to Henry le Norreys and Margery his wife, of her third part of the whole vill of Derisburi, in Halytonsire; they giving in exchange to her and Henry de Bechinton and Alice his wife all their land in Pulton in Waley, Lisecare, and Secumbe. Witnesses:—Sir Geoffrey de Chedle and Sir Geoffrey de Werburton, knights, Adam de Hutton, and others (named). Seal.
from A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 3:
A.6119.
Cheshire.
Release by Henry de Bechinton and Alice his wife, to Henry le Norreys and Margery his wife, of all their right in a third part of the town of Derisburi in Haltonesire; for which release the said grantees have given to the releasors and to Isabella de Derisburi, relict of Alan de Lascelis, all their lands in the towns of Pulton in Waley, Lisecair and Secumbe. Witnesses:—Sirs Patrick de Hasilwalle and Roger de Dunvile, knights, and others (named).
from Ormerod (vol. 2, p. 472):
…a fine, 23 Edw. I. whereby John de Bechenton obtained of Henry de Bechenton and Alice, his wife, 5 mess. 6 ½ bovates of land, 3 acres of mead, and 3s. 8d. rent, in Kyrkeby in Valeye, Pulton in Valeye, and Lymskarke. Plea Ro.
from Woods:
An early thirteenth [century] charter contains a grant by William son of William de Deresbury confirming to William the clerk, son of Gilbert de Lisnecarke, 4 bovates of land in Lisnecarke, which the grantor's father had given to William in marriage with his sister Emma. This estate, possibly derived from the radman of 1086, descended to Henry Norris of Daresbury in right of Margery his wife, and they exchanged their lands in Liscard and other places with Henry de Bechinton and Alice his wife and Isabel de Derisbury, widow of Alan de Lascelis, receiving lands in Daresbury. It may be accepted that Margery, Alice and Isabel were the Daresbury co-heirs. Henry de Bechinton and Alice his wife granted to John son of Matthew de Thornton 2 bovates of land in Lisecarck in marriage with their daughter Margery. This may be the same grant by which William son of William Torond in 1331 claimed a messuage and 2 bovates of land in Liscark against Robert son of Reginald de Liscark and Agnes his wife, alleging a grant by Henry de Becheton to John Torond in free marriage with Margery his daughter ; after the deaths of John and his wife and William their son, he said the tenement should come to him as grandson. However it happened, the grant appears to have lapsed, for in 1295 Henry and Alice de Bechinton gave the 2 bovates to their younger son John, their elder son Matthew confirming, and the estate descended in this line to Ellen, daughter and heir of Philip de Becheton, some sixty years later.
from the Recognizance Rolls of Chester
1316
John Bebington de Bechinton, William de Lakene, Henry son of Bertram de Tranemol, and Henry de Bechynton, to “dominus” Robert de Notyngham, rector of Bebyngton, recognizance for 40 marks.
References
“County Court Roll” in Remains, Historical and Literary, connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, new series, vol. 84 (1925).
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1890-1900.
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).
The Rylands Charters indexed at https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/29f0299f-5da1-342a-97a8-be3f70529866
Taylor, Henry. “On some early Deeds relating to the families of Hoton of Hooton, and Stanley of Storeton and Hooton” in the Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales, new series vol. vi. (1899).
Woods, E. Cuthbert “The Journal of John Hough, Lord of the Manor of Liscard” in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire vol. 72 (1920).