Thomas Fitton (died 1397)

Events

Date of Birth: about 1322.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Richards (p. 40).

Date of Death: 22 March 1397.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Earwaker (2:551).

Relationships

Father: Thomas Fitton.

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

Mother: Isabel de Orreby.

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

Spouse: Margaret Legh.

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 40) and by Ormerod (3:552). It is recorded in Thomas's inquisition post mortem (Deputy Keeper of Records, p. 61).

Spouse: Elizabeth. Elizabeth remarried William de Honford.

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

Children (by Margaret):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Richards.)

Sir Lawrence Fitton (about 1375 - 14 February 1456/7) married (1) Agnes Hesketh; married (2) Clemence.

Philip Fitton.

Margaret Fitton married Sir John Burdett of Seckington, Warwickshire.

Evidence

The Deputy Keeper of the Public Records gives abstracts of charters of "Thomas Fyton" of "Gowesworth" from 2 Richard 2 (1868, p. 51), and a deed from 3 Richard 2 (1868, p. 52). An abstract of Thomas's inquisition post mortem is given on p. 61.

Earwaker (2:551) gives an abstract of Thomas’s inquisition post mortem. An abstract also appears in the Appendix to the Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (p. 61).

The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix II (pp. 180-181), records Thomas's appointment as a justice for the three hundreds of the eyre at Macclesfield in 1386, 1387, 1389, 1390, and 1391. It also records the writ "diem clausit extremum" in 1397.

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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-Ninth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1868).

The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1875).