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Ellen Pigot (Legh)

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Birthplace: Adlington, Cheshire, England
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Daughter of Robert Legh, Esq., of Adlington and Isabel Legh
Wife of John ‘of Chetwynd’ Pigot
Sister of Robert Legh; Maud Mainwaring; Agnes Brereton; Margaret Mere; Isabel Holford and 1 other

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About Ellen Pigot

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Legh-71

Ellen was daughter of Robert de Legh of Adlington, Cheshire, and his wife, Mabel / Isabel, daughter of Sir William de Stanley.[1]

Ellen married John Pygot of Chetwynd, Shropshire, who was born in 1434.[1]

Ellen and John had children:

  1. Robert Pigott of Chetwynd, sheriff of Shropshire in 1517, married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Blount of Kinlet;[1]

Sources

  1. Rev W G D Fletcher, MA, ed, "The Sequestration Papers of Thomas Pigott of Chetwynd" Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Part I, 3rd Series, Vol VI (1906) 71. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/transactionsofsh36shro/page/n166/mode/1up : accessed 9 June, 2022).
  2. Renaud, F. (1867). Contributions Towards a History of the Ancient Parish of Prestbury inn Cheshire, 97, pp. 69. Google Books. Pedigree of Pigot of Butley, Chetwynd, and Bonishall, p. 70).[1]
  3. "Cheshire families: Legh of Adlington, (1881, November 19). Notes and Queries, pp. 186-187. Stockport. < GoogleBooks >
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Ellen Pigot's Timeline

1448
1448
Adlington, Cheshire, England
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