Lucy de Helsby

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Sir William de Helsby.

This relationship is given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:17, 2:64, 2:73).

Mother: Hawise Trussell.

This relationship is given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:73).

Spouse: Sir Peter de Thornton. Married by 1324.

This relationship is given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:17, 2:73).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Ellen (died before 1364) married Sir Thomas de Dutton.

Margaret married (1) William de Golborne; married (2) Henry Done of Utkinton.

Katherine. Outlawed for felony.

Emma married Hugh de Weverham.

Maud married Henry de Beeston.

Elizabeth (died before 1364) married Hamon Fitton, baron of Denham.

Mary.

Beatrice married Thomas de Seynesbury.

Evidence

from the Cheshire Archives catalogue :

(DCH/F*/5)

18 April 1324

LETTER OF ATTORNEY by William de Hellisby and Hawisia his wife to Richard de Mamcestre, chaplain, to deliver seisin to Peter Lord of Thornton and Lucy his wife, of their Manor of HELLISBY [Helsby] with appurtenances. Given at Hellisby the Wednesday next before the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist, 1324, 17 Edward II. Seals: Brown, 2, on tongue; 1, a fleur de lis, 'S' WILLI' D(E) (HEL)LISB''; 2, a fleur de lis, inscription illegible. Parchment.

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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