Peter de Legh of Bechton

• Preferred Name: Peter de Legh of Bechton^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GMNF-WJ5
  
• Death: ABT 1360 in Betchton, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.1333 LONG: E2.3667 with note: The United Kingdom didn't exist before 1801!"
  
• Alt. Birth: 1294 in Knutsford Booth's Hall, Bucklow, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.3466 LONG: E2.4039
  
• Alt. Death: 1360 in Bucklow, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.3466 LONG: E2.4039
  
• Alternate+Birth: 1294 in Bechton, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.1333 LONG: E2.3667 with note: Description: Alternate Birth
  
• Birth: um 1299 in Bucklow Hill, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N3.3466 LONG: E2.4039 with note: calculated
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Contributed By Ronald Jordan : 6 March 2021 (From Memories)
  
  About history
  Peter DE Legh, of Betchton, had two daughters and co-heirs, Margaret, who became the wife of Thomas Fitton of Gawsworth, and Elizabeth, who married John Davenport of Henbury, and the manor of Betchton was divided between them. The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach, Co. Chester: Including the Two Chapelries of Holmes Chapel and Goostry. From Original Records (Google eBook) Page 148
  
  2nd son. He married Ellen Bechton-81951 about 1318 in Cheshire, England.
  
  Children
  
  Elizabeth de LEIGH , of Bechton b: ABT 1322 in Betchton, Congleton, Cheshire, England. Married John (Jenkin) de DAVENPORT , of Wheltrough
  Margaret de LEIGH , of Bechton b: ABT 1335 in Betchton, Congleton, Cheshire, England. Married Name: Thomas FITTON , of Gawsworth
  
  Notes
  Nooks and corners of Lancashire and Cheshire: A wayfarer's notes in the ... By James Croston Pg. 295
  
  . . . . By her he had John Venables, who, as previously stated, assumed his mother's maiden name of Legh. . . . married sometime previous to 1315 Ellen de Corona, . . . Four sons were born of this marriage, three of whom became the founders of distinct houses; John, ancestor of the Leghs of Booths; 'Robert, to whom, at the death of his mother in 1352, the manor of Adlington reverted under the Corona settlement, and who thus became progenitor of the Leghs of Adlington, Lyme, Ridge, Stoneleigh, Stockwell, &c.'; William, founder of the line of Isall in Cumberland, and from whom descended . . . ; Peter de Legh, who in right of his wife Ellen, daughter and heir of Philip de Bechton, acquired . . . .
  From Nancy Lopez
  
  In _George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester_, Vol. I, p.499, Vol. III, p. 661, John Legh is only shown as married to one Ellen, Ellen Coroun (Corona), sister of John Coronun & daughter of Thomas Corona, lords of Adelynton. She was living 1296, Inq.p.m. 26 Edward III. All of John's sons are credited to Ellen Corona, including John, who is given as the second son. Robert is shown as the eldest son and heir to Addlington. John is heir to Booths.
  
  Copied from "Leigh and Legh of High Legh" website, www.users.totalise.co.uk:
  
  Memorial
  Abouthistory
  Peter DE Legh, of Betchton, had two daughters and co-heirs, Margaret, who became the wife of Thomas Fitton of Gawsworth, and Elizabeth, who married John Davenport of Henbury, and the mano
  
  === G Ormerod: The History of the County Pal ===
  G Ormerod: The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester Vol III P. 352
  
  === !Name,Byr(also<1272<1316<1317),pla(also ===
  !Name,Byr(also<1272<1316<1317),pla(also Adlington,Lanc;Legh,Ches),parents(both moms listed),Spouse(or Margaret Demmery),Bap,End-TIB FHL 884565 Name(Peter Leigh),Parents(John Leigh/Elene Baguley),Residence(
  === note ===
  vol 3, pg 552 & 707, "The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester" by George Ormerod
  
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  === LEGH OF KNUTSFORD BOOTHS
  
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  LEGH OF KNUTSFORD BOOTHS
  
  According to the Lysons, the Manor of Over Knutsford, alias Knutsford Booths together with Norbury Booths was purchased in 1300 from William de Tabley by John Legh, ancestor of the then proprietor, Willoughby Legh. John Legh was a younger son
  of William Venables of Bradwell by his wife Agnes, daughter and heir of Richard Legh of West Hall in High Legh. He assumed the name of his maternal grandfather but retained the arms of Venables.
  
  *Forrest=fathers direct line,! dna connections
  @Stolp=mothers direct line
  +Tamer=husbands direct line
  #Wallace & ^Stuetelberg=son-in-laws direct lines
  all lines separated.With multiple marks cross over lines
  without documentations all is speculative/with ???
  
  === Ancestral File Number: 961V-43 ===
  Ancestral File Number: 961V-43
  
  === !Ormerod- History of Cheshire 2nd ed., v ===
  !Ormerod- History of Cheshire 2nd ed., vol 3, 552, 661
  !Ormerod- History of Cheshire 2nd ed., vol. 3, 654, vol. 1, p. 499
  living 9 and 10 E2, and 1338, ancestor of Legh of Bechton
  
  === !SOURCE: ANCESTRAL FILE VERSION 4.15 ===
  !SOURCE: ANCESTRAL FILE VERSION 4.15
  
  === Surname also written as "Leigh." ===
  Surname also written as "Leigh."
  
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  === !Cheshire Pedigrees 1566-1580 GS Q942.71 ===
  !Cheshire Pedigrees 1566-1580 GS Q942.71 D23 eed Peerage of England GS 942 D22ca V7; The History of the County Palatine & City of Chester GS Q942.71 H2or V3
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === !Family Records, Salt Lake City, Ut. ===
  !Family Records, Salt Lake City, Ut.

• m. 1318 in Bechton, Cheshire, England

1. Margaret Leigh, b. ABT 1330 in Bechton, Cheshire, England     d. 12 DEC 1379 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England

• m. 27 JAN 1630 in Warrington,Lancashire,England

• m. 1318 in Cheshire, England

1. Title: Peeter Legh, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
   Author: "England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NL4R-HQS : 13 March 2020), Peeter Legh, 1630.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NL4R-HQS;
   Note: This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.