Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Thurstan de Norleigh of Pemberton.
This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (4:sub Pemberton) and by Farrer (p. 31 fn. 10), who states that Thurstan is frequently described in error as Adam. Rawcliffe (HoP), Ormerod (3:661), and Baines give Adam Norleigh. Farrer states that Thurstan was no doubt descended from the Cheshire Norley family.
Mother: Margery de Walton.
This relationship is given by Farrer (p. 31 fn. 10).
Spouse: William Radcliffe of Smithills.
This relationship is given Rawcliffe (HoP), by Baines and by Whitaker.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Sir Ralph Radcliffe (died 1406) married (1) unknown; married (2) Margery Ince.
John Radcliffe.
Joan Radcliffe married Sir John Ashton by 1366.
Isabella married William Barton.
A daughter married William Walton.
References
Baines, Edward. The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. (Volume II, 1889)
Farrer, William, ed. Final Corcords for Lancashire. Part II, 1307-1377 (1902).
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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).
Rawcliffe, Carole. “Radcliffe, Sir Ralph (d. 1406), of Blackburn and Smithills, Lancs.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (Boydell and Brewer, 1993).
“Townships: Pemberton” in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (Victoria County History, London, 1911).
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham. An History of the Original Parish of Whalley and Honor of Clitheroe. v. 2 (4th ed., 1876).