Anne Davenport

William Davenport in the third generation had no legitimate heirs but had two illegitimate daughters, Maria and Anne, whom he adopted. Earwaker states rather discretely that the younger daughter had a "misalliance" in that she did not marry into the gentry.

Cheshire Country Houses, by Peter de Figueiredo and Julian Treuhertz, Phillimore, Chichester, 1988.

East Cheshire Past and Present by J. P. Earwaker, London, 1870. Cheshire Heroes by W. I. Wild in Cheshire Notes and Queries, Vol. 1, page 179, December 1896