Peter Legh

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Living: 1316, 1338.

The dates are given by Ormerod (1:499).

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: John Legh of Booth.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (1:499).

Mother: Ellen, daughter of Thomas de Corona.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (1:499).

Spouse: Ellen, daughter of Philip de Bechton.

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

Children:

Margaret Legh married Thomas Fitton.

Elizabeth Legh married John de Davenport.

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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

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