Sir William Atherton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1389.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the VCH.

Relationships

Father: Henry de Atherton.

This relationship is given by the VCH.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Joan de Mobberley.

The relationship is given by Dugdale. Joan was sister and coheir of Ralph de Mobberley, lord of Mobberley.

Spouse: Margery.

The relationship is given by Dugdale. Margery was a widow.

Children:

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

Sir William Atherton (died 1414) married Agnes Vernon.

Sir Nicholas Atherton (died 1420) married Joan Bickerstaffe about 1377.

Elizabeth Atherton married John Hulton of Farnworth.

Evidence

“Atherton” in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3 (Victoria County History, London, 1907).

Dugdale, William. A Visitation of Lancashire made in the Year 1664. (1872).