Thomas Fitton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Sir Edmund Fitton.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 40), by Earwaker (2:550), and by Ormerod (3:552).

Mother: Joyce.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:552).

Spouse: Isabel de Orreby. Married about 1316 or 1317.

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

Children:

Thomas Fitton (about 1322 - 22 March 1397) married (1) Margaret Legh; married (2) Elizabeth.

Margery married William de Mere.

Evidence

From the Appendix to The Twenty-Seventh Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (Chester Plea Rolls):

(p. 112):

10 Edw. 2. Fitton, “Fytoun”, Thomas, and Isabel his wife, against Jordan de Macclesfield and Milicent his wife, who was the wife of Thomas de Macclesfield. Dower of 12 messuages, 180 acres of land, five acres of meadow, and two acres of brush in Gowesworth; the said Jordan and Milicent to vouch to warranty William de Modberlegh. [9 & 10 Edw. 2. m. 38. 10 & 11 Edw. 2. m. 1, 5 d. 10.]

From the Appendix to The Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (Plea Rolls of Chester):

(p. 20):

2 Edw. 3: Fyton, Thomas, and Isabel his wife, and Thomas son of Thomas Fyton, and Isabel his wife. Fine -- tenements in Pounale and Chorlegh.[1 & 2 Edw. 3. m. 19.]

(p. 23):

4 Edw. 3: Fyton, Thomas, and Isabel his wife, against Robert de Stanlegh. Dower. [3 & 4 Edw. 3. m. 191.]

4 Edw. 3: Fyton, Thomas, and Isabel his wife, against Robert de Stanlegh, senior. Dower of three bovates of land in Stanelegh. [3 & 4 Edw. 3. m. 19. 4 & 5 Edw. 3 m. 6.]

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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 Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London: 1866).

The Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London: 1867).