Margery Venables

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 5 March 1458/9.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is recorded is the Recognizance Rolls of Chester (DKPR 1876, Appendix II, p. 106).

Relationships

Father: Hugh de Venables.

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

Mother: Margery Cotton.

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

Spouse: Richard Bulkeley.

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

Spouse: Randle Mainwaring. Married by 1391.

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

Children (by Randle):

(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 Leycester (Ormerod 1:481).)

Sir John Mainwaring married Margaret Delves.

William Mainwaring. Ancestor of the Mainwarings of Ightfield, Shropshire.

Randle Mainwaring. Ancestor of the Mainwarings of Carincham, Cheshire.

Elizabeth married Ralph Egerton of Wrynehill, Staffordshire.

Cecily married Thomas Fulleshurst of Crewe, Cheshire.

Joan married John Davenport.

Ellen married Thomas Fitton of Gawsworth, Cheshire.

Agnes affianced to Sir John Bromley, but died before marriage.

Margaret married (1) Sir John Bromley; married (2) Sir John Needham.

Evidence

From The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Appendix II (Recognizance Rolls of Chester):

(page 72):

1391, Sept. 14. Margery, who was the wife of Richard de [Bulkeley], of Chedle, petition of Randle de Maynwaring, her husband, for livery of dower to her of the freehold of the said Richard, and for livery of the lands and tenements of which she was enfeoffed by Richard le Vernon and Hugh le Mon. [14 & 15 Ric. 2. m. 10.]

(page 73):

1392, Dec. 12. Margery, late wife of Richard de [Bulkeley], writ for the livery of dower to, of a place of land in Hale, held of John de Mascy, of Tatton, Kt., in soccage, and of another place of land in Assheley, held of Hamo de Assheley, in soccage, and of 20 mercates of lands in Nantwich, of which dower had been assigned to her by writ [6 April 1391], but escheated on her marriage with Randal le Maynwaring. [16 & 17 Ric. 2m. (6), (7).]

Writ for livery of dower to the said Margery and Randal Maynwaring, her husband, of a moiety of the town and advowson of Cheadle. [Ibid. (7).]

(page 316):

1395, Aug. 5, Dec. 9. Randal le [Maynwaring], and Margery his wife, writ of the King to the escheator of Chester, for livery to, of the lands and tenements late of Richard de Bulkylegh, of Chedil, the King having, in consideration of 230l., granted the custody of the same to the said Randal and Margery, together with the wardship and marriage of Richard son and heir of the said Richard. [18 & 18 Ric. 2 m. 6 (5); 19 & 20 Ric. 2 m. 3 d. (3).]

From The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Appendix II (Recognizance Rolls of Chester):

(page 104):

1454, Aug. 30. William de [Bulkeley], of Cheadle, livery to, setting forth the finding of an inquisition p.m. on the death of Richard de Bulkeley, of Chedle, viz., that Richard de Bulkeley, of Chedle, died seized in his demesne, as of fee, of two parts of a moiety of the manor of Chedle, and the advowson of the church of Chedle; and of the reversion of a 3rd part of the said manor held in dower by Margery, who was the wife of Randal de Maynwaryng; that the said 3rd part and two parts and advowson were of the yearly value of 10l….

(page 105):

1459, April 6. William de [Bulkeley], livery to, setting forth inquisition p.m., viz., that Margery, who was the wife of Randal Maynwaryng, held, on the day she died, of dower of Richard de Bulkeley, formerly her husband, a third part of the manor of Chedle, which same third part, together with two parts of the said manor, were held of the Earl of Chester, by the eighth part of a knight’s fee, yearly value 100s.; 5 messuages in Middlewich, held of Edward de Holt, in socage, yearly value 13s. 4d.; 10 acres of land in Assheley and Hale, held of William Mascy, of Tatton, in socage, yearly value 5s.; and 8 acres of land and wood in Occleston, held of Thomas Stanley, of Elford, as of his manor of Aldeford, yearly value 6s. 8d.; that the reversion of the above said estates pertained to William de Bulkyley, kinsman and heir of the aforesaid Richard, and the heirs of the said William; also that the said Margery held, for life, 6 messuages, 200 acres of land, meadow, and wood in Whatcroft, held of Robert Leftwich, in socage, yearly value 40s.; 6 messuages, 120 acres of land, meadow, and wood in Hulme, near Davenport, held of Randal Waynwaryng, as of his manor of Kermyncham, in socage, yearly value 4 marks; a moiety of the scite of one water mill and 4 acres of wood in Litelstanthorn, held of Hugh Venables, of Kynderton, in socage, yearly value 12d.; and a moiety of the manor of Tympurley, held of William de Mascy, of Tatton, in socage, yearly value 40s., of the demise of Richard le Vernon and Hugh le Mon, chaplains, by a charter dated at Middlewich on Tuesday next before the Feast of St. George the Martyr, 14 Ric. 2., by which the said Richard and Hugh gave the aforesaid messuages and lands to the said Margery, as those they had of the gift of Richard de Bulkylegh in the towns of Tymperley, Hulme, near Davenport, Middlewich, Neuton, near Middlewich, Sutton near Occleston, Occleston, Whatcrofte, Tetton, and Litelstanthorn (excepting 20 marcates of land in Middlewich, assigned to Nicholas, brother of the aforesaid Richard for life), with reversion to the right heirs of the aforesaid Richard de Bulkylegh for ever; that the same ought to descend to the said William de Bulkeley, as kinsman and heir of the said Richard de Bulkyley, viz., son of Richard son of the aforesaid Richard, late husband of the said Margery; that the said Margery died on Monday “in quarta septimana quadragesime” “last” past. [37 & 38 Hen. 6. m. 4 d. (1).]

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).

The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1876).