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Sir John Legh

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Birthplace: Baguley, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
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Son of Edmund Legh, of Baggilegh, Esq. and Margery Leycester (Legh) (Savage)
Husband of Ellen Leigh
Brother of Sir William Leigh
Half brother of Arthur Leycester and Geoffrey Leycester

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About Sir John Legh

  • 'Sir John Legh1
  • 'M, b. after 1450
  • Father Edmund Legh, Esq. d. c 1475
  • Mother Margery Savage
  • ' Sir John Legh was born after 1450 at of Baggiley, Cheshire, England; Under 16 in 1466.1 He married Ellen Booth, daughter of Sir William Booth, Sheriff of Chester and Maud de Dutton, in 1466.1
  • 'Family Ellen Booth b. c 1457
  • Citations
  • 1.[S11576] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, by John Burke, Esq. and John Bernard Burke, Esq., p. 72.
  • http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1478.htm#...
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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. 67
  • SIR ROBERT BOUTH, Knt., of Dunham Massie, in the county of Chester, which seat he acquired by his wife, Douce, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Venables, of Bollen, in the same shire; which Sir William was son of Joane, daughter and heir of Hamon Fitton, who was grandson of John Fitton, of Bollen, by Cicelie his wife, eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir Hamon Massie, the sixth and last Baron of Dunham Massie, one of the eight feudal lordships instituted by Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, in the time of the Conqueror. By this lady Sir Robert Bouth had no less than nine sons and five daughters. of the former,
  • Sir Robert and his eldest . . . Sir Robert died on the 16th September, 1450, and was s. by his eldest son,
    • SIR WILLIAM BOTHE, who m. Maud, daughter
    • Pg. 68
    • of John Dutton, Esq., of Dutton, in the county of Chester, by whom he had five sons and nine daughters, which daughter were,
      • Douce, m. to Thomas Leigh, Esq., of West Hall, in the county of Chester.
      • Anne, m. first, to John Leigh, Esq., of Booths, Cheshire, and secondly, to Geoffery Shakerly, of Shakerly, in the county of Lancaster.
      • ' Ellen, m. to Sir John Leigh, of Baguley, in the county of Chester.
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  • 'A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct .. By Sir Bernard Burke
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=1ysWkXKSrpIC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=T...
  • Pg. 60
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Sir John Legh was born after 1450 at of Baggiley, Cheshire, England; Under 16 in 1466.1 He married Ellen Booth, daughter of Sir William Booth, Sheriff of Chester and Maud de Dutton, in 1466.1

Family

Ellen Booth b. c 1457

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Sir John Legh's Timeline

1450
1450
Baguley, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
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