Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Michael de Furness.
This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (8: sub Furness; 8:sub Thurnham fn. 6). It is recorded in the Coucher Book of Furness Abbey (p. 89; p. 482) and in the Calendar of the Lancashire Assize Rolls (pp. 57-8).
Mother: unknown.
Weis (p. 43; 34-27) gives Agatha, daughter of Ranulph fitz Henry and granddaughter of Henry fitz Hervey, lord of Ravensworth.
Spouse: Joan.
Joan is recorded as Aline’s mother in a charter in the Register of the Priory of St Bees (p. 99). She is recorded as William's wife in a fine of 23 Henry III (no. 80).
Children:
Michael de Furness (drowned 21 March 1268/9).
William de Furness. Possibly rector of Aldingham.
Aline de Furness married Richard de Cansfield.
Margery de Furness married Henry de Clifton.
References
Brownbill, John, and John Christopher Atkinson (eds.). The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey. (Manchester: Printed for the Chetham Society, volume 9 New Series, 1886; volume 11, 1887).
A Calendar of the Lancashire Assize Rolls (Col. John Parker trans.) (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. XLIX: 1905).
Henry III Fine Rolls Project. The National Archives and King’s College London (accessed 14 March 2015)
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8 (Victoria County Histories, 1914).
Weis, Frederick Lewis, and Walter Lee Sheppard,Jr. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (8th ed.) (Baltimore, 2004).
Wilson, James (ed.) The Register of the Priory of St. Bees (Durham:The Surtees Society volume 126, 1915).