Katherine Houghton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: after 1367.

Place of Death: unknown.

Ormerod (3:199) states that Katherine survived her husband.

Relationships

Father: Sir Richard de Hoghton.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:199) and by Abram (p. 712).

(probable) Mother: Sibyl de Lea.

This relationship is given by Abram (p. 712).

Spouse: Hugh de Venables of Kinderton.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:189, 3:199).

(supposed) Spouse: William Lynehall.

This relationship is given by Baines (4:99), although he states that Katherine was first married to William and secondly to Hugh, which is chronologically impossible. (Baines refers to a 1373 fine mentioning William and Katherine. Hugh died in about 1367.)

Children (by Hugh):

(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 Ormerod.)

Hugh de Venables married (1) Ellen de Huxley; married (2) Margery de Cotton.

Roger Venables married Elizabeth Golborne.

Thomas Venables.

Richard Venables married Joan Fitton.

Joan Venables married Sir Thomas Lathom.

References

Abram, William Alexander. A History of Blackburn (Blackburn, 1877).

Baines, Edward, William Robert Whatton, and Brooke Herford. The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (London: 1893).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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