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Margery Davenport

Also Known As: "de Bechten", "de Legh"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wheltrough, Cheshire, England
Death:
Place of Burial: France
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir John “Jenkin” Davenport, Kt. and Elizabeth de Legh, of Bechton
Wife of Thomas de Legh
Sister of Thomas Davenport and John Davenport
Half sister of Nicholas Davenport; Griffin Davenport; Agnes Langton; Ellen Davenport and Elizabeth Davenport

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About Margery Davenport

Children of Sir John “Jenkin” Davenport and Elizabeth Legh, as given by Ormerod are:

Margery de Davenport, wife of Thomas de Legh


  • '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/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.
  • 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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  • http://cybergata.com/roots/3509.htm
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Margery Davenport's Timeline

1355
1355
Wheltrough, Cheshire, England
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France