Margaret Legh

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 12 December 1379.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Richards (p. 40).

Relationships

Father: Peter Legh of Bechton.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 40) and by Ormerod (3:298).

Mother: Ellen, daughter and heiress of Philip de Bechton.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 40).

Spouse: Thomas Fitton.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 40) and by Ormerod (3:552).

Children:

(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 Richards.)

Sir Lawrence Fitton (about 1375 - 14 February 1456/7) married (1) Agnes Hesketh; married (2) Clemence.

Philip Fitton.

Margaret Fitton married Sir John Burdett of Seckington, Warwickshire.

References

Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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

Richards, Raymond. The Manor of Gawsworth (Manchester: E.J.Morten, 1974; first published 1957).