Margaret del Leigh

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Robert del Leigh of Adlington.

This relationship is given by Rawcliffe and by Ormerod (3:661).

Mother: Maud de Norleigh.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:661).

Spouse: Sir John Ashton.

This relationship is given by Rawcliffe and by Ormerod (3:661).

Children:

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

Sir John Ashton (about 1354 - about 1398) married (1) Joan Radcliffe; married (2) a daughter of Robert Stavelry.

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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

Rawcliffe, Carole and Andrew Ayton. “Ashton, Sir John (c.1354-c.1398)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

“Townships: Pemberton” in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (Victoria County History, London, 1911).