Griffin Davenport

Children of Sir John “Jenkin” Davenport and Margaret Done, as given by Omerod, are:

Girffin de Davenport, living 44 Edward III.

• 'A history and genealogy of the Davenport family, in England and America, from A. D. 1086 to 1850 .. (1851)
• http://www.archive.org/details/historygenealogy51dave
• http://www.archive.org/stream/historygenealogy51dave#page/36/mode/1up
• Thomas Davenport of Wheltrough was the second son of Sir Thomas Davenport of Davenport, by Agnes de Macclesfield.
• In 1309, his father grants him a lease of the office of sergeancy for two years, at an annual rent of sixteen marks of silver. He had lands from his father, in Withington, Tunstede and Marton. Married Elizabeth, daughter of , who survived her husband 12 Edw. III. (1355).
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/historygenealogy51dave#page/37/mode/1up
  • Sir John (alias Sir Jenkin) Davenport, third son of Thomas of Wheltrough, and grandson of Sir Thomas Davenport of Davenport, married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Peter Legh of Betchton. Their children were, 1st, Thomas, ancestor of the Davenports of Henbury ; 2d, John, living 1366 ; 3d, Nicholas, ancestor of the Davenports of Woodford and Capesthorne, living 1371; '4th, Griffin Davenport.'
    • Thomas Davenport of Henbury, eldest son of Sir Jenkin, married Margaret, daughter of Hugh Venables, living in 1371.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/historygenealogy51dave#page/65/mode/1up
• EIGHTH GENERATION.
• Issue of Sir Thomas Davenport, (No. 16.)
• (21.) II. Thomas Davenport de Wheltrough, to whom his father gave lands in Withington, Wheltrough, Marton, -&c, &c, who became the ancestor of the Davenports of Wheltrough,
• http://www.archive.org/stream/historygenealogy51dave#page/68/mode/1up
• Henbury, Coventry, Bromhall, and Woodford, (now also of Capesthorne.) He married Elizabeth . . . . who survived her husband in 1339.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/historygenealogy51dave#page/70/mode/1up
  • NINTH GENERATION— Continued.
• Issue of Thomas Davenport of Wheltrough, (No. 21.)
  • (38.) III. Sir John Davenport, (called also Jenkin, to distinguish him from his elder brother of that name,) knight, justice of Lancastershire, 1384, and who became the purchaser of Henbury. He married Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Peter Legh of Betcherton.
    • TENTH GENERATION.
  • Issue of Sir John Davenport, (No. 38.)
    • (40.) I. Margaret Davenport, married Thomas de Leghes, Jr.
    • (41.) II. Thomas Davenport, ancestor of the Davenports of Henbury, named 1st, in the Henbury entail, 1366, and 3d, in the Woodford entail, 1371. He married Margaret,
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/historygenealogy51dave#page/71/mode/1up
    • daughter of Hugh Venables, who was afterwards married to Sir William Newport.
    • (42.) III. John Davenport, living in 1366.
    • (43.) IV. Nicholas Davenport de Widford, ancestor of the Davenports of Woodford, &c, living in 1371, and had lands as by indenture in 1413 in Bredbury, Romiley, &c. He married Ellena, widow of Edward Massey, of Timberley, in 1371. She died a widow in 1423.
    • ' (44.) V. Griffin Davenport, living in 1371.
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