Isabel de Byron

1. Isabel de BYRON , heiress of Melling was born ABT 1274 in Melling Manor, Melling Parish, Lancashire, England. She was the daughter of 2. Robert de BYRON , of Melling.

She married Robert de NEVILLE , of Melling, Sir, son of Geoffrey de NEVILLE , of Hornby, Sir and Margaret de LUNGVILLERS , Heiress of Hornby. He was born ABT 1272 in Hutton Magna, Yorkshire North Riding, England, and died AFT 1324 in Melling Manor, Melling Parish, Lancashire, England.

Children:

• Robert de NEVILLE , Lord of Hornby, Sir b: ABT 1297 in Melling Manor, Melling Parish, Lancashire, England. Married 1) Joan de Atherton 2) Elizabeth St. Laurence

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From 'Townships: Melling', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 208-215. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp208-215 [accessed 27 August 2016].

Robert de Byron was succeeded by two daughters —Isabel, who married Robert de Nevill of Hornby, and Maud, who married William Gerard of Kingsley, father of the William Gerard above mentioned. (fn. 28) The latter thus had a double right in Melling, by his mother as well as by his wife. The Nevill share descended with Hornby to the Harringtons, and in the division of Sir John Harrington's (fn. 29) estate between his two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, Melling went to the former. She married John Stanley, son and heir of John Stanley of Weaver, in Cheshire (a younger brother of the first earl of Derby), (fn. 30) and Jane, one of their three daughters and co-heiresses, brought it to Sir Thomas Halsall, who died in 1539. His widow afterwards married John Osbaldeston of Osbaldeston, and died at this place 19 August, 1567.

• 28. De Banc. R. 251, m. 160. See also De Banc. R. 220, m. 92 d.; Nevill v. Richard son of Adam Tatlock. In August, 1313, Robert de Nevill and Isabel his wife took action against William son of Roger de Melling in a plea of the assize of mort d'ancestor. Hervey de Melling and Henry his son, as also Henry son of Roger de Melling, were concerned in the case; Assize R. 424, m. 4. In 1374 Henry de Chathirton, in right of Robert de Nevill, prosecuted Gilbert son of Otes de Halsall and others for taking cattle at Melling; De Banco R. 456, m. 408. For a claim against this Henry see Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 354.
• 29. Killed at Wakefield in 1460.
• 30. Visit. of 1533 (Chet. Soc.), 166. He is elsewhere described as illegitimate (Visit. of 1567); but John Stanley of Weaver certainly had a son and heir John living in 1476, though his brother Thomas succeeded to Weaver; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), iii. 574.

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