Alice Lancaster (Eccleston)

[https://rainhillparish.org.uk/rainhill-history/#:~:text=In%201829%2....] Alice Eccleston is from an old and distinguished family descended from Richard de Eccleston.
Rainhill is an ancient village with an Anglo-Saxon name. The name Rainhill is thought to derive from the Old English personal name Regna or Regan who would have been a settler who established the small settlement on a hill overlooking the river Mersey.

The earliest known reference is in 1190 when Richard de Eccleston granted to Alan the Clerk his brother, the vill of Raynhull. Little is known of life in Rainhill in the Middle Ages except that it was a small agricultural community.

Biography

Alice Lancaster (Eccleston) was born in 1485. Her parents were Rauf Eccleston and Agnes Leyland.

Alice married Richard Lancaster, I in 1518. Together they had the following children:
Richard Lancaster, II;
Margaret Lancaster;
Elizabeth Lancaster;
Helene Lancaster.