Richard Molyneux of Melling

• Preferred Name: Richard Molyneux of Melling^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• LdsEndowment: 23 OCT 1934 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• LdsBaptism: 19 MAY 1934 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: 9Z8T-381
  
• Death: 1320 in Melling, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.4963 LONG: E2.9185
  
• LdsSealingToParents: 11 JUN 1959 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 1232 in Sefton, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.5015 LONG: E3.0057 with note: stan.
  
• MilitaryService: Crusader with note: Wikipedia
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  by 1292 - heir - Sefton, lancashire
  1315 - he made a grant to son Thomas, being a quitclaim of all his rights in land in Little Salton & other lands in Lothian, Scotland,
  which formerley belonged to Vivian Molyneux, whose heir RICHARD Molyneux was (he was his uncle)
  by 1320 - made grants to his children by EMMA
  
  Sir Richard de Molyneux, Knight, Lord of Sefton
  About Sir Richard de Molyneux, Knight, Lord of Sefton
  Additional Curator's Notes:
  Richard de Molyneux was born c.1232, probably at Sefton, Lancashire, England. He was the son of Sir William de Molyneu

• m. ABT 1257 in Sefton, Lancashire, England

1. John Molyneux, b. ABT 1269 in Sefton, Lancashire, England     d. 1310 in Prescot, Lancashire, England

1. Title: Helen's Genes
   Publication: Name: http://helenesgenes.com/Molineux.html#rm6;
   Note: Richard de Molyneux b.abt.1232 of Lancashire, England; s/o William de Molyneux and Margaret de Thornton d.abt.1320 m.of Sefton, Lancashire, England; Emma Donne b.abt.1232 of Gascony, Lancashire, England; parents ukn d.aft.1336 CHILDREN included: Juliana Molyneux b.abt.1258 William de Molyneux b.abt.1263/1286 Robert Molyneux b.abt.1265 Thomas Molyneux b.abt.1265 d.1294 Peter Molyneux b.abt.1267 John Molyneux b.abt.1269 Agnes Molyneux b.abt.1271 Joan de Molyneux b.abt.1272 Alice de Molyneux b.abt.1273 Richard Molyneux b.abt.1274
   
2. Title: Peerage of Ireland
   Author: page 241
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland03lodg/page/240/mode/2up?q=Molineux;
   
3. Title: Visitation of Lancashire -Sefton 1567 (page 2)
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/153354263;
   
4. Title: The Baronetage of England
   Author: page 100
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=5ikwAAAAYAAJ&q=molyneux#v=onepage&q=Richard%20Molyneux&f=false;
   
5. Title: British History.ac.uk
   Publication: Name: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp208-215;
   Note: The notices of Melling in the thirteenth century are scanty. Randle son of Adam de Quick, with the consent of Alice his wife, granted the homage and service of William son of Robert de Lund; (fn. 9) Thomas de Routhwaite quitclaimed all his right in three selions lying between the land of St. James of Birkenhead and that of Amery son of the chaplain; (fn. 10) William son of Alan de Melling gave two 'lands' to Cockersand, one between the land of Robert de Molyneux and the other in Melling Wood. (fn. 11).... ....Again, the Molyneuxes of Thornton had a fair estate here from an early time, and claimed a share of the manor. (fn. 22) In 1292 Robert son of Robert de Molyneux appears as claimant of a tenement against Henry son of Henry de Bootle, and the latter Henry's widow Alice, (fn. 23) and as defendant in suits brought by William son of Adam de Sefton, the 'Demand' of Sefton, as to tenements which he claimed in right of his grandfather Award de Sefton. In one of these claims, which included a share of the wood, Robert de Byron was the other defendant. (fn. 24) Robert de Molyneux relied on a technical plea—that his mother Margery held a third in dower; but Robert de Byron denied that Award was ever in possession, and the plaintiff withdrew his claim. ¶Some years later (1300 onwards) Adam the Forester of Melling made a number of claims against various people of the vill, (fn. 25) in respect of the inheritance of his wife Anabil, daughter of Bernard son of Richard. One of these suits placed Robert de Byron, Robert de Molyneux of Thornton, Margery late the wife of Robert de Thornton first among the defendants. Their defence was that they were lords of the town of Melling, holding the waste in common; Adam the Forester had enclosed part of this waste, and they had pulled down his hedge, as it was lawful for them to do. The jury accepted this defence and dismissed Adam's claim. (fn. 26) Robert de Byron, Henry and Nicholas de Bootle and others were in 1303 charged with assaulting one Henry de Moss, and carrying him off to prison at Lancaster, for which he claimed £1,000 damages. (fn. 27).... ...The Molyneuxes of Sefton claimed a manor here also. Sometimes it is described as Melling simply, at others as 'half of Melling,' and at others is joined with Lydiate. Sir William Molyneux purchased the Swifts' share of Elizabeth Harrington's inheritance in 1521 and the Grimshaws' share in 1554. (fn. 35) In the inquisition of 1623 'the manor of Melling' is said to be held of the king by knight's service, viz. by the tenth part of a fee. (fn. 36) The family continued to hold it down to the end of the eighteenth century, when it was sold to John Foster for £1,050; eight small chief-rents were payable, ranging from 1d. to 1s., and amounting to 5s. 8d.... ..About the beginning of the fifteenth century the Molyneux family of Thornton, who, as already shown, had long claimed a manor, (fn. 43) made Melling their principal residence, their house being known as The Wood, or Hall of the Wood. Robert de Molyneux, the first described as 'of Melling,' (fn. 44) had a son John who married Agnes daughter of Henry Blundell of Crosby, (fn. 45) and was succeeded by his son Robert and his grandson John. (fn. 46) The latter's son and heir Robert died 5 July 1541, leaving a son and heir John, then aged twenty-three, and younger children. (fn. 47) John Molyneux was one of the eight Lancashire gentlemen and yeoman recusants who at the beginning of the Elizabethan persecution in 1568 were singled out by the royal commissioners in the hope of terrorizing the rest. John Molyneux stated that he had attended service at Melling chapel 'divers times' within the year, and once received the communion there. He had, however, entertained various persecuted priests at his house—Vaux, Murren, Marshall, Peel, and Ashbrook; also Foster, an Oxford scholar, and Allen, afterwards cardinal. He was thus one of the numerous class who put in an occasional attendance at the new services to escape the heavy fines. By the report of his neighbour Edmund Hulme of Maghull it appears that he had more recently repented of this degree of compliance and had 'taken a corporal oath on a book' to acknowledge the pope's supremacy. Though he appears to have been dismissed with a warning and injunction, 'he was afterwards committed to custody and is said to have died in prison. His death took place on 21 July, 1582, Edmund Molyneux his son and heir being thirty years of age. (fn. 48) Edmund Molyneux adhered to the religion of his ancestors, though like his father he saved his estate by occasional conformity. In 1584 he was returned by an informer as a recusant and in 1590 was 'in general note of evil affection in religion and noncommunicant.' (fn. 49) He died 13 July 1605, Robert his son and heir being twenty-five years of age. (fn. 50) By his will he left his lands to this son and £300 to his daughter Ellen. (fn. 51) For a time Robert appears to have avoided conviction for recusancy, but two-thirds of his estate was under sequestration for this offence in 1631 when he compounded for knighthood. (fn. 52) When the Civil War broke out he joined the royal standard and was killed at the first battle of Newbury, 20 September, 1643. Two of his sons, Robert and John, fought on the same side at the second battle there (October, 1644), and the former is said to have been killed or mortally wounded in it. (fn. 53) ¶It was inevitable that the property should be seized by the Parliament. The last-mentioned Robert had left a son about four years old, whose guardian, Cuthbert Ogle, compounded for him in 1650. (fn. 54) The petition presented on behalf of the heir, desiring to compound for certain lands 'then lately come to him by the death of his grandfather and father,' stated that they 'were never sequestered, but he feared they might be liable for some delinquency of his father.' The Lancashire commissioners, however, stated that the estates had been sequestered for the delinquency of Robert the grandfather before the death of Robert the father—this latter being a 'papist delinquent' and never in actual possession—and that Robert the petitioner, then about twelve years of age, was being educated in popery. (fn. 55) The reply sent in for the petitioner alleged that 'his grandfather and father so far from being "convict" had both lived and died Protestants, and were never till this questioned for popery, and petitioner was being brought up under a known Protestant his guardian.' An allowance was requested for himself and his brothers and sisters (four in number). (fn. 56) In spite of this reply—which appears to be quite untrue—Robert Molyneux was brought up in the proscribed faith. He married Frances, daughter and heiress of William Lathom of Mossborough in Rainford, a zealous adherent of the same religion. (fn. 57) They had two sons, Robert and William; the former died without issue in or before 1728, the latter in 1744, leaving an only child Frances, who married (about 1753) Edward Blount of Sodington, who succeeded to the baronetcy in 1758. They sold their Lancashire possessions, and as they had no children the families of Molyneux of Melling and Lathom of Mossborough became extinct. The Hall of the Wood became the property of the earl of Derby, but much of their land in Melling was sold to Thomas Bootle of Melling and Lathom..... ...Richard Molyneux, grandson of Sir William, married a daughter of John Molyneux of The Wood and settled in Cunscough, being returned as a freeholder there in 1600. (fn. 72) He was a justice of the peace. An abstract of his last will is preserved by Kuerden; he desired to be buried in the chapel at Melling; he mentioned his son Richard, who was to buy the capital messuage called Cunscough, and his daughters Mary Wolfall, Frances Lathom, and Elinor. (fn. 73)
   
6. Title: Visitation of Lancashire -Sefton 1664
   Author: William Dugdale
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/152259793;
   
7. Title: History, genealogical and biographical, of the Molyneux families by Molyneux, Nellie Zada Rice, Mrs Published 1904 Topics Mullineaux family
   Author: page 26-7 for Richard of Sefton, his father William on 26. Page 22 is the Father Adam of William. Page 21 Adam's father Richard. Page 20 for Robert, father of Richard, page 19 for Roberts father Adam. Vivian and his father William Molines pages 18-9.
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/historygenealog00unkngoog#page/n35/mode/2up;
   Note: Ancient data on the Molyneux line
   
8. Title: Standishes & Prescotts Film P. 89-94
   Author: Dr. F. L. Weis, Standishes & Prescotts Film P. 89-94 .
   Page: Family Records
   
9. Title: Visitation of Lancashire 1567 -Molyneux of Melling
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/154529493;
   
10. Title: Wikipedia - Molyneux
    Author: "International Molyneux Family Association". Mx-world.org. Retrieved 2016-04-09. "International Molyneux Family Association". Mx-world.org. Retrieved 2016-04-09. Morris, John, ed. (1978). Domesday Book:Cheshire. Phillimore & Co. pp. R1:1–45. Edward Kimber and Richard Johnson, The Baronetage of England: Containing A Genealogical and Historical Account of all the English Baronetts Now Existing, Vol. I, Published 1771, Printed for G. Woodfall, and others pp. 59–60 Edward Kimber, The Peerage of Ireland, Vol. II, Published by Printed for J. Almon, London, 1768, pp. 26–31 Molyneux, Nellie Zada Rice (1904) History, Genealogical and Biographical, of the Molyneux Families. Syracuse, N.Y., C. W. Bardeen. p. 9 Moss, John. "Old Historic Families of Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire 7". Manchester2002-uk.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2016-04-09. Sefton Historic Settlement Study Archived 2014-03-27 at the Wayback Machine. Merseyside Historic ..
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux;
    Note: Molyneux (/ˈmɒlɪnjuː/; Old French: De Molines or De Moulins) is a French surname. The surname has been linked primarily to a large French family that settled in Lancashire, England. By the 14th century the Molyneux family had split into three main branches; the Lancashire line, who became the Earls of Sefton, the Nottingham line, and the Calais line, from those remaining in France. There was also a branch of the family who were Irish baronets.[2] Etymology and history The ancestors of the Molyneaux family arrived in England in medieval times. The name "de Molines" or "de Moulins", Old French in origin, meaning "Mill", and eventually changed into "Molyneux". The early historical background of the family is sparse, coming from scattered genealogical, historical, and archaeological sources, composed of a mixture of legend, romanticized literary invention, and fact. Some historians deduce the de Moulins came from Moulineaux-sur-Seine, near Rouen, in Normandy. Other sources claim the family originally came from Moulins, France in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Wherever their origin, Robert de Moulins' son, William, settled in Lancashire. He had two sons, William and Vivian de Moulins. William was granted large tracts of land in Lancashire, in what was then called inter Mersam et Ripam, that is, "between the Mersey and the Ribble",[3] and the manors of Septon (Sefton), Thornton, Cuerden, ten carucates and a half of land, at the service of half a knight's fee. William Molyneux made Septon his chief seat and was succeeded by Vivian de Molyneux.[4][5][6] They also held the manor of Little Crosby, later Ince Blundell Hall, which had been held by one Uctred until 1066. By 1212 it was owned by Richard de Molyneux of Sefton before being turned over to the Blundell family. The Molyneuxs later owned most of the districts of Speke and Rainhill.[7] The Royalist gentry family held a large moated manor, a corn mill on the River Alt, and the advowson of St. Helen's Church at Sefton without interruption from about 1100 to 1700. Their successors, by then Earls, moved to Croxteth Hall.[8] Of the Sefton Molyneux family, crusaders Richard (d. 1290) and William Molyneux (d. 1320) are entombed within the church, and are its oldest inhabitants. Their effigies now lie beneath an arch moulding set into the wall in the Molyneux chapel, which is outside the 14th-century church walls. In 1436 the office of Hereditary Steward of the Wapentake of Salfordshire was granted to Sir Robert Molyneux of Sefton. The office was held by Sir Robert's successors (descendants of his brother Richard), the Earls of Sefton until 1972. It was the Lancashire line of the family that became the Viscounts Molyneux and later the Earls of Sefton, while there were also branches seated at Nottingham and Calais. Croxteth Hall, Home of the Earls of Sefton branch of the Molyneux family. The senior branch of the Sefton family had been staunch Catholics and Royalists (notably in the 17th and 18th centuries) through the worst times until Charles Molyneux, 8th Viscount Molyneux, was rewarded for converting to the Protestant faith. The relatively youthful second and third Viscounts fought on the Royalist side both politically and militarily. Although Liverpool Castle had been partly dismantled in 1660–1678, Caryll Molyneux, the 3rd Viscount, had used it for storing arms. During the reign of King James II, he was outlawed by Parliament for supporting the deposed king in 1688 to 1689. Control of the Castle finally passed out of Molyneux hands after Caryll had again been suspected of participation in a Jacobite plot. William, the 7th Viscount, was a Jesuit, and there were in his time not less than seven Molyneux in the Society of Jesus alone. Variations Variations of the surname include "Mullinax", "Mullenax", "Molinex", "Mullinix", "Mullenneix", "Mullennix", "Mullineaux", "Molinieux", "Molinaux", "Molineaux", "Mollineaux", "Molineux", "Mulleneux" among others.[9]
    
11. Title: Visitation of Lancashire Sefton 1567
    Author: William Flowers
    Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/153354284;