Jane Leigh, of Brereton

Christening on 26 Jul 1549, Brereton-cum-Smethwick, Cheshire, England

Married: John Esquire Lecgh on 19 Oct 1570 in Wybunbury, Cheshire, England

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Biography

Jane Brereton of Brereton was baptised on either 16 July[1] or on 26 July, 1549, at Brereton-cum-Smethwick, Cheshire, England.[2]

Jane was the daughter of Sir William Brereton of Brereton, knight and Jane Warburton.[3] Her parents, William and Jane were 18 and 12 respectively, at their marriage settlement on 20 January 1539,[4] Her paternal grandparents were William Brereton, esq, and Anne, the daughter of sir William Bouth of Dunham.[3] Her mother was the oldest daughter of Sir Peter Warburton and Elizabeth Wynynton.[3]

Jane had one brother and four sisters:[1]

Sir William Brereton, I Lord Brereton of Leighlin, baptised at Brereton on 6 February, 1550. married Margaret, the daughter of Sir John Savage, knight and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of the earl of Rutland; Mary, baptised 4 December 1552 at Brereton; Elizabeth, died June 1591, buried at Middlewich, was married to Thomas Venables, of Kinderton. esq; Anne, wife of Sir Thomas Smith, mayor of Chester 1596; and Susanna. On 18 January, 1552,[5] at the age of two and a half years, Jane, and John Somerford/Sondford, aged three years, were held in their parents' arms in Brereton-cum-Smethwick church while they were married.[6] On 15 April, 1564, at the age of 12, Jane repudiated her marriage to John Somerford/Sondford, and was granted a divorce.[6]

Jane's father died in 1559.[3] On 20 January 1561, her mother married Sir Lawrence Smyth, of Hough, knight, at Wybunbury St Chad, Cheshire.[7] Sir Lawrence had previously been married to Anne Fulleshurst of Crue.[3] Through her mother's second marriage, Anne gained two step-sisters, Eleanor and Mary, and three step-brothers, Lawrence Smith, Sir Thomas Smith of Hatherton and Edward.[8] Her mother had no children with Sir Lawrence.[8]

When she was 21, Jane married John Leigh, esq, on 19 October in 1570 at Wybunbury, Cheshire.[7] [9] John Liegh of Bouthes was the son of Sir John Legh/Ligh of Booths/Bouthes (died 1558) and Jane the daughter of Richard and the sister of Sir William Sneyd/Snead of Bradwell, co Stafford.[10] [11] Jane and John had children:[11]

William Legh of Booths, esq, heir, aged 5 in 1580[10], 37 years in 1613, died 1641, sheriff of Cheshire, 1636, married 1) the daughter of Edwards of Chester, and 2) Dorothy, the daughter of Geoffry Shakerley of Holme, esq; Peter, died without issue[10]; Thomas, alive in 1580[10]; John; Richard who died without children; Francis who married Catherine Holland of Knotsford Booths; Margaret, who was alive in 1580[10], was married to Thomas Cotes, of Ireland; Isabel, who was alive in 1580[10], was married to Captain John Mansfield of Ireland; and Anne, who was alive in 1580[10], was married to Thomas Fairfax of Ireland. Note: "The pedigree in Harl. MS. 1535 states that Jane was a daughter of Sir Urian Breretpm of Handford, Knight, which is incorrect. (See Earwaker's East Cheshire, vol. i., p. 260, and Ormerod's Hist. of Cheshire, vol. i., p. 499)"[12]

Her mother, Dame Jane, widow of Sir Lawrence Smith of Hough, Knight, made her will on 6 August, 1590.[13] Dame Jane says she was, deceaased somewhat disseased in bodye but whole in mynde. A list of the people in her will and her relationship to them:[13]

bequests to Sir William Brereton's children her son William, created Lord Brereton of Leigfalin in Ireland, gets beddings and napery and linens from Brereton, and her plain velvet gown, etc, and first choice of one of her rings with stones in them with exceptions, and her prayer book covered with massye gold to be an heirelowme unto his howse and to be worne by the ladye or Mistress of the hall of Brereton ... and first to be enjoyed and possessed by that shall happen to be the wief of him that my saide sonne shall make; and in 1590, her son William had no sons and two daughters: Elenor and Mary her daughter, Elizabeth Venables, married to Thomas Venables, esq, and their daughters: Elizabeth Edgerton and Mary Venables her daughter Anne Smyth, married to Thomas Smith, esq, Laurence Smithe, Ann's son, is to inherit a chain as heirlooms. Anne Smythe's daughter, Jane Smyth her daughter, Jane Leigh, married to John Leighe esq, a ring with a stone in it, and a silk gown, Jane and John Leigh's unnamed children, a gift to every of them one bequests to the children of her husband Sir Laurence Smithe knight Thomas Smithe married to her daughter Anne; Edwarde Smithe, younger son; Other people

cosin Bridget Davemport of Davemporte the elder, and her three daughters, Elenor, Jane and Bridget, cosin Mary Bressye of the Cliff Ellen Perpoynte the wief of Henrye Perpoint of Breerton Elizabeth Edge the curate his wief of Brereton Anne ffradsham my sonnes nurse Margret Leighe, waytinge woman at this present Johan Heiward my fryze peticoate and desire that my sonne Brereton be good unto her at her mariage for an offeringe amongeste his tennants William Perren, Richard Ellison, Henrye Ellison witness the will. Jane's sisters, Mary and Susanna, and her step-sisters, Mary and Eleanor, aren't mentioned.[13] Her mother, Lady Jane Smyth was buried on 6 September, 1590, at Wybunbury St Chad,[7] and her will proved 27 September 1597.[13]

Jane was widowed in 1617.[11]

Jane died at Booths in Over Knotsford alias Knotsford Booths and was buried at Knutsford St John the Baptist, Cheshire, on 29 January in either 1620[14] or 1621[7],

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↑ 1.0 1.1 George Ormerod, ed., "Containing the hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield; Appendix and General Index", The history of the county palatine and city of Chester compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, Vol. III, (London: Lackington, Hughs, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819), https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp03orme#page/52/mode/2up pp.52. ↑ "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7C1-BMX : accessed 29 May 2014), Jane Brereton, 26 Jul 1549, Christening; citing p 4, , Brereton-cum-Smethwick, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2103922.

↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 George Ormerod, ed., "Containing the hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield; Appendix and General Index", The history of the county palatine and city of Chester compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, Vol. III, (London: Lackington, Hughs, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819), https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp03orme#page/n69/mode/2up pp.51.

↑ N M Fudge, BRERETON, Sir William I (c.1520-59), of Brereton, Cheshire, The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, Crown copyright and The History of Parliament Trust 1964-2014, ( 1964-2014), http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/br... .

↑ "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7C1-13P : accessed 29 May 2014), John Sondford and Jane Brereton, 18 Jan 1552, Marriage; citing p 5, , Brereton-cum-Smethwick, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2103922.

↑ 6.0 6.1 John Brereton, Brereton a Family History, (San Francisco: Taylor & Taylor, 1919), https://archive.org/stream/breretonfamilyhi00brerrich#page/22/mode/2up pp.22. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Cheshire Parish Register Database, Cheshire Parish Register Project, ( 2011), http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~cprdb/ .

↑ 8.0 8.1 George Ormerod, The history of Chester etc, Vol. III, (London: Lackington, Hughes. Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819), https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp03orme#page/260/mode/2up pp.260. ↑ "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FQL4-MLD : accessed 29 May 2014), John Esquire Lecgh and Jane Brereton, 19 Oct 1570, Marriage; citing item 4 p 12, , Wybunbury, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2068758.

↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 John Paul Rylands, ed., The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy king of arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same herald. With an appendix, containing the Visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms. And a fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, deputy to the Office of arms, The Publications of the Harleian Society, XVIII, (London: Harleian Society, 1882), https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/148/mode/2up pp.148. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2

George Ormerod, ed., "Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the county of the city of Chester and Bucklow Hundred", The history of the county palatine and city of Chester compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, Vol. I, (London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819), https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp00orme#page/382/mode/2up pp.383.

↑ Sir George J Armytage, Bart, and J Paul Rylands Rylands, Esq, ed., "Pedigrees made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, taken by Richard St George, esq, Norroy King of Arms, and Henry St George, Gen, Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms, and some other contemporary pedigrees", The Record Society for the publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, LVIII, (London: The Record Society, 1909), https://archive.org/stream/recordsociety58recouoft#page/152/mode/2up pp.152. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3

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