Robert Downes

• Preferred Name: Robert Downes^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}
  
• Alternate Name: Robert de Downes
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: 1238 in Chorley, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.0532 LONG: E2.6542
  
• Christening: in Taxal, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.2927 LONG: E1.9931
  
• FSID: 9CQ4-YHS
  
• NFS ID: with note: Description: LHV6-SKQ NFS
  
• Death: 1306 in Chorley, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.0532 LONG: E2.6542
  
• Notes:

  === Robert de Downes, son and heir of Lord D ===
  Robert de Downes, son and heir of Lord Downes in Sutton and Taxel and a forester of Macclesfield forest in 1283. He married 1st Margery Fitton, sister of Edward Fitton of Bollin, who gave to her his lands in Chorley. He had a 2nd wife by whom he had a son who succeeded him, but by Margery he had a daughter, Maud.
  (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 315)
  
  === !Grantee in franc-marriage of lands in C ===
  !Grantee in franc-marriage of lands in Chorley. To whom Edmund Phiton, his brother in law, gave lands in Chorley, temp. E1.
  
  !Grantee in franc-marriage of lands in Chorley. To whom Edmund Phiton, his brother in law, gave lands in Chorley, temp. E1.
  
  === !Lord Rob't Downes ID Owners of Shalcros ===
  !Lord Rob't Downes ID Owners of Shalcross FHL #(Q929.242 Sh 16s)
  
  === !Death: Ormerod's Hist of Cheshire 3:781 ===
  !Death: Ormerod's Hist of Cheshire 3:781
  
  === !Lord of Downes and Taxal 16 E1, brother ===
  !Lord of Downes and Taxal 16 E1, brother and heir to John, living 2 E1, 1306, ob. ante 1313.
  
  === Robert Downes, living time of reigns of ===
  Robert Downes, living time of reigns of King John and Henry III, had lands in Macclesfulg and Upton. He was living in 1246. Arms for Downes: Sable a hart lodged argent. Source: "Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith " Call Number: CS71.S643
  
  === !Lord of Dounis (Downes) and Takeshalch ===
  !Lord of Dounis (Downes) and Takeshalch (Taxal) by grand-serjeanty; viz. the
  finding of a forester for Macclesfield forset; held lands in Macclesfield and
  Upton, living 22 and 30 H3, Inq. p.m. 1 E1.
  
  1288 - heir of brother John Downes - Downes & Taxal Cheshire

1. Maud Downes, b. 1264 in Chorley, Cheshire, England     d. 1348 in Mobberley, Cheshire, England

• m. ABT 1292 in Chorley, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
• m. ABT 1280 in Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, England

1. Title: Book - History of Chester
   Author: google books
   
2. Title: Online - Downes Dounes Taxall
   
3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Robert de Dounes -
   Author: The History of Cheshire, Ormerod, George Esq., LL.D., F.S.A., 2nd Edition by Thomas Helsby, Esq, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1882, Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, Provo, UT 84604, Page number: Vol. 3, p. 781
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2332820711
   
4. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Robert Downes -
   Author: The History of Cheshire, Ormerod, George Esq., LL.D., F.S.A., 2nd Edition by Thomas Helsby, Esq, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1882, Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, Provo, UT 84604, Page number: Vol. 1, pp. 416-17; Vol. 3, p. 552, 781
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2332820711
   
5. Title: Documents, Downes Family, National Archives
   Publication: Name: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/7e210430-d632-412c-8336-3194072e77da;
   
6. Title: Book - History of Chester
   Author: Google Books
   
7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Roger Downes (Lord) - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth: after 1236; Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
   Author: Memorabilia
   Note: Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth: after 1236; Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2042921944
   
8. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Robert Downes -
   Author: The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, George Ormerod. Harleian Society Publishers, 1882, Page number: Vol 3; p 781
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742405
   
9. Title: Online - Downes of Shrigley