Ellen de Baguley aka Ellen de Corona

Additional Curator's Note

Ellen de Baguley ( or de Baggilegh) is often called Ellen de Corona because she was the heir of Thomas de Corona, a kinsman of hers (Thomas de Corona was Ellen's first cousin once removed.). Some researchers claim that Thomas and Ellen were brother and sister, while others claim she was his daughter. Whatever the relationship, Thomas died without heirs and left Ellen Adlington Hall, a Tudor estate in Cheshire, England. Ellen married John Leigh or Legh and brought the property into Leigh family, and it remains as their private property even today. Wikipedia has some nice pictures of the property here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlington_Hall. Originally the hall consisted of timber-framed buildings on three or four sides of a courtyard surrounded by a moat. The Great Hall, on the north side of the courtyard, was built between 1480 and 1505 for Thomas Legh I. -- Maria Edmonds-Zediker, Curator, 7/10/2011

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Family

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Name: Ellen de Corona 1 2

• Sex: F
• Birth: ABT 1283 in Adlington, Cheshire, England
• Death: BEF 1352

Father: Thomas de Corona: Birth: ABT 1260 in Adlington, Cheshire, England.

Marriage: Married: John de Legh on BEF 1305 at 2nd wife.2 John de Legh: Birth: ABT 1280 in Bradwell, Cheshire, England. Death: 1339 in Knutsford Booths Hall, Bucklow, Cheshire, England

Children: $Joan de Legh: Birth: ABT 1305 in Knutsford Booths Hall, Bucklow, Cheshire, England. Death: ABT 1350

1. Robert de Legh: Birth: ABT 1307 in Knutsford Booths Hall, Bucklow, Cheshire, England. Death: 1370 in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England

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2. John de Legh of "Bothes" eldest son of William Venables, purchaser of Knutsford Booths some time before 28 Edw. I. (1300). He was known to be living in 1338. ◦+ Ellena, dau. of Sir William de Baggilegh and sister and coheir of John de Baggilegh and heir of her kinsman, Thomas de Corona. She was born in 1288 Source: http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/leghbooths.html#Coruna

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Eleanor de Baggileh/Baguley .At the Conquest the lodge (Adlington Hall) came in to the possession of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester. In the early 13th century the hall was granted to the de Coruna family who held it for four generations before running out of male heirs. Eleanor the daughter of Sir William de Baggilegh was the heiress (see the additions and corrections in Ormerod's History of Cheshire). She married John de Legh of Booths and their son, Robert de Legh eventually succeeded to the hall and estate. The hall has remained in the same family ever since, albeit with succession through the female line in the 18th century, in 1888 when it went through two females, in 1940, and again in 1992. The family tree below showing the succession of heirs from the late 17th century is drawn in part from the hall's brochure and in part from East Cheshire Past and Present by J.P. Earwaker, London, 1877. Stuart Raymond, in Cheshire: A Genealogical Bibliography, Vol. 2 lists as a source Cheshire families: Legh of Adlington in Advertiser Notes and Queries, 1, 1882, 186-9. Source: http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/adlington.html

• Ellen , daughter of Lucy de Corona, married Sir John Legh , son of Sir William Venables of Bradwell, and called "de Legh" from having been left to the care of his mother, whose maiden name was Legh, and which was also the name of the place where he was born, and where he lived till his marriage. From this marriage the Leghs of Adlington descend.

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• 'Ancestry of John Barber White and his descendants By Almira Larkin White
• http://books.google.com/books?id=hY9bAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq...
• Pg. 197
• 1. Sir William Venables, knight, lord of Bradwell, 2nd son of the Baron of Kynderton, m. Agnes, dau. and heir of Richard de Legh, lord of High Legh (Westhall, 1st wife).
• Pg. 198
  • ' 2. John de Venables, alias de Legh, the latter name acquired by user, from his mother's manor of Legh, his birthplace and early residence. He m. Elen probably sister of John de Coroun, Lord of Adelynton, and perhaps heiress at law of the Corouns; living 1296. He d. in or before March 1324.
  • 3. Robert de Leigh, lord of Adelynton, 2nd son of John de Legh and Elen his wife. He m. (1) Sybil or Sibill, dau. of Henry Honford, living 1336. He m. (2) Matilda, dau. and co-heir of Adam de Norley als. North Legh.
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• 'A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and ... By John Burke
• http://books.google.com/books?id=aB0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA310&lpg=PA310&dq...
• Pg. 309
• RICHARD DE LEIGH, left an only daughter and heiress,
  • AGNES LEIGH, who espoused, first, Richard de Lymme, and had a son,
    • THOMAS, who had half of the said mediety of High-Leigh, and taking the surname of LEIGH, left a son,
  • AGNES LEIGH, married, secondly, William Venables, of Bradwell, second son of Sir William Venables, Baron of Kinderton, and had a son,
    • ' JOHN, who assumed the name of LEIGH, and of him presently.
  • She wedded, thirdly, William de Hawardyn, and had a son,
    • RALPH DE HAWARDYN, who had the other half of the mediety of High-Leigh, and sold it to Sir Richard Massey, of Tatton, in 1286.
  • The son of Agnes Leigh, by her second husband,
    • ' JOHN LEIGH, m. Ellen, daughter of Richard Dent of Cheshire, and had issue,
      • JOHN (Sir), of Booths.
      • ROBERT, of Adlington.
      • Peter, of Beckington, whose only daughter
      • Pg. 310
      • and heir ___ m. Thomas Fitton, of Gawsworth, in Cheshire.
      • The second son,
      • ROBERT LEIGH, of Adlington, in Cheshire, m. Sibil, daughter of Henry Handford, of Handford, in the same county, and had issue,
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• 'Ellen de Corona1
• 'F, d. before 1352
• Father Thomas de Corona
• ' Ellen de Corona married John Legh, son of Sir William Venables and Agnes de Legh. Ellen de Corona was born at of Adlington, Cheshire, England. She died before 1352.
• 'Family John Legh d. c 1324
• Children
  • ◦Sir William de Legh d. a 1338
  • ◦Peter de Legh d. a 1338
  • ◦Agnes de Legh
  • ◦Robert de Legh+ d. 1370
  • ◦John de Legh+ d. bt 1323 - 1324
  • ◦Gilbert del Legh+
• Citations
• 1.[S3301] Unknown author, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, by George Ormerod, 1819, p. 383; Wallop Family, p. 482.
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p392.htm#i...
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References

• Adlington Hall is a country house near Adlington, Cheshire. The oldest part of the existing building, the Great Hall, was constructed between 1480 and 1505; the east wing was added in 1581. The Legh family has lived in the hall and in previous buildings on the same site since the early 14th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlington_Hall The first known building on the site was a Saxon hunting lodge for Earl Edwin. After the Norman conquest the estate was given to Hugh Lupus, and it remained in the possession of the Norman earls until 1221, when it passed to the Crown. Henry III granted the manor to Hugh de Corona. Hugh's son Thomas, who had no children, granted it to his sister Ellen, who married John de Legh of Booth in the early 14th century during the reign of Edward II, after which it became the ancestral home of the Leghs of Adlington.[1] Originally the hall consisted of timber-framed buildings on three or four sides of a courtyard surrounded by a moat.[2]