Thomas de Weever (died about 1399)

Events

Date of Birth: January 1370/71.

Place of Birth: Weaver, Cheshire.

The date and place are given by Earwaker (2:596), citing a proof of age.

Place of Baptism: the church of Over (Over-Peover, Cheshire).

The place is given by Earwaker (2:596), citing a proof of age.

Date of Death: about 1399.

Place of Death: unknown.

Thomas’s inquisition post mortem was taken in September, 1399 (Earwaker 2:596).

Relationships

Father: Richard de Weever.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:208-210) and by Earwaker (2:596).

Mother: Margaret Arderne.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:208-210) and by Earwaker (2:596).

Spouse: Isabella de Fulleshurst.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:208; 2:210; 3:302). Helsby notes that the date Ormerod gives for the marriage, 41 Edward III, is before Thomas was born. Helsby suggests that either the date is erroneous or that Isabella was previously contracted to an elder brother of Thomas, also named Thomas.

Children:

Sir Edward de Weever married Elizabeth.

Evidence

Property:

(according to his inquisition post mortem as given by Earwaker (2:596))

-the manor of Wevere

-land in Over Alderlegh, held of the lord of Halton

-messuages and land in Nether Alderlegh, held of John Arderne

-messuages in Middlewich and Clyve

-lands called Woodlegh in the vill of Bredbury (together with his wife, by gift of Hugh de Wevere)

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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