Ellen (Baguley) Legh (abt. 1280 - 1352)

Born about 1280 in Adlington, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of John (Legh) de Legh — married 1300 in Adlington, Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died Jul 1352 at about age 72 in Knutsford Booths, Cheshire, England

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Biography

Ellin was the daughter and heir of Sir William Baguley.^[1]

Ellen married John Legh, of Bouthes, before 1300 when together they purchased Norbury Booths and there fixed their residence.^[2]

In 1 Edward II [8 July 1307-7 July 1308], a fine was enrolled at Chester between William de Venables and his wife, Katherine, and John de Legh and his wife, Ellen, for a moiety of the manor of Ashton.^[3]

In 9 Edward II [8 July 1315-7 July 1316], John de Leghe and Ellen his wife, made a fine with William le Dene, Chaplain, for 39 messuages, five carucates and 40 acres of land, four acres of meadow, 100 acres of wood, 200 acres of moss and three parts of one mill in Knotesforde Bothes, Northbur' Bothes, Knotesford and Routhesthorn.^[4]

In 5 Edward III [25 January 1331-24 January 1332], an Inquisition ad quod damnum, found that Ellen de Legh might without damage, &c., close a way sixty-four perches in length and two feet in width, leading from the town of Modberlegh to Knotesford, through the middle of the "Bothewode," provided she constructed another way sixty-nine perches in length and two feet in width, which should run outside a new pond, and so by the new ditch.^[5]

Research Notes

Ellen is sometimes called the daughter of Thomas de Corona. However, Thomas had no issue, and this relationship is a misunderstanding of the moiety of Adlington that Thomas de Corona gave to Ellen and her husband John Legh.

Sources

1. ↑ Rylands, John Paul. The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy king of arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same herald. With an appendix, containing the Visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms. And a fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, deputy to the Office of arms The Harleian Society, London, 1882, pp. 145-151. [1]
2. ↑ Remains, Historical & Literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester (The Chetham Society, Manchester, 1876) p. 79.
3. ↑ Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix 4. Welsh Records. Calendar of Deeds, Inquisitions, and Writs of Dower, Enrolled on the Plea Rolls of the County of Chester.—Edward 2—(Continued from the 26th Report, Appendix No. 4.)" The Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [14 February 1866], (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1866), 94, e-Book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039450500?urlappend=%3Bseq=530%3Bownerid=34524627-529 : accessed 8 October, 2022). [1 & 2 Edw. 2. m. 11 d.]
4. ↑ Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix 4. Welsh Records. Calendar of Deeds, Inquisitions, and Writs of Dower, Enrolled on the Plea Rolls of the County of Chester.—Edward 2—(Continued from the 26th Report, Appendix No. 4.)" The Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [14 February 1866], (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1866), 110, e-Book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039450500?urlappend=%3Bseq=546%3Bownerid=34524627-545 : accessed 8 October, 2022). [9 & 10 Edw. 2. m. 9.]
5. ↑ Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix 6. Welsh Records. Calendar of Deeds, Inquisitions, and Writs of Dower, Enrolled on the Plea Rolls of the County of Chester.—Edward 3", The Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [28 February 1867], (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1867), 26, e-Book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039450518?urlappend=%3Bseq=54%3Bownerid=34524648-53 : accessed 6 July, 2022).