Alice Alcock

JOHN LEIGH, who inherited his mother's estate, of Ridge, was escheator of Cheshire for seven years, from the 12th Henry VI, and was living in 1452, , being then also escheator (representative of the escheats of the king). Alcock COA: (Cheshire). Ar. a fesse gu. betw. three scythes sa.

He m. Alice, daughter and heir of Thomas Alcock, and had issue,

1. Roger, who by Ellen, his wife, daughter of Robert Leigh, Esq., of Adlington, was ancestor of the Leighs of Ridge.
2. Richard, of whose line we are about to treat.
3. John, from whom descended Sir John Leigh, K.B., of Stock well, in Surrey. (2)

This notable English family name, Alcock, emerged as an influential name in the county of Cheshire, and their first estates were in the hamlet of Ridge, in that county, sometime before the year 1449. In 1399 [sic. must be "1499"], John Alcocke's daughter married into the notable family of Hargreaves of Lancashire, taking many of the estates of the Ridge line with her. John Alcock of the same line was Bishop of Ely in 1486. Notable amongst the family at this time was Alcock of Ridge.

Source: Records of Rushall, County Stafford: With a Transcript of the Old Parish ... Page 82. < GoogleBooks >

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References

1. Page: Visitation of Warwickshire 1682 Harleian Society Vol. LXII (1911) Leigh of Stoneleigh pp.10-12.  
2.  A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance.  England (Google eBook) John Burke 1831.  Page 310.  "Leigh"
3. "Pedigree of the Leigh Family of Rushall." Records of Rushall, County Stafford: With a Transcript of the Old Parish Register and Extracts from the Churchwardens' Accounts (Google eBook) Frederick William Willmore.  Robinson, 1892 - 195 pages.  Page 82
4. Leigh Hall historian Craig Thornber: https://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/legh.html
5. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=janeauste...
6. http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/leigh09.htm