Thomas de Orreby

Events

Date of Birth: 1262/3.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Ormerod (3:548) states that Thomas was aged 13 years in 4 Edward I. Richards (p. 40) states that Thomas was 14 in 1276.

Date of Death: 1289/90.

Place of Death: unknown.

Thomas’s inquisition post mortem was taken in January 1290 (Earwaker 2:550).

Relationships

Father: Richard de Orreby of Gawsworth.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 40), by Earwaker (2:550), and by Ormerod (3:548).

Mother: Alice.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 40), and by Ormerod (3:548).

Spouse: Cecily de Mascy.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 40), and by Ormerod (3:548).

Children:

Richard de Orreby (born 1283/4).

Isabel married (1) Roger de Macclesfield; married (2) John de Grindon; married (3) Thomas de Fitton.

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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