Agnes Brereton

• Agnes Legh
• F, #44398, b. circa 1445
• Father Robert Legh, Esq. b. 3 May 1410, d. 29 Jan 1479
• Mother Isabella Stanley
• Agnes Legh was born circa 1445 at of Adlington, Cheshire, England. She married Sir Andrew Brereton, son of Sir William Brereton and Philippa Hulse, circa 1459.
• Family Sir Andrew Brereton b. c 1440
• Children
  • Elizabeth Brereton+ b. c 1470
  • Sir William Brereton+ b. 1473
  • Ellen Brereton+ b. c 1477, d. 22 Sep 1541
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1477.htm#... ____________________
• Agnes Leigh was born in 1456 at Adlington, Cheshire, England.1 She was the daughter of Robert Leigh and Isabel Stanley.1
• Child of Agnes Leigh and Andrew Brereton
  • 1.Ellen Brereton+1 b. 1477, d. 22 Sep 1541
• Citations
• 1.[S1916] Tim Boyle, "re: Boyle Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 16 September 2006. Hereinafter cited as "re: Boyle Family."
• From: http://thepeerage.com/p20870.htm#i208696 _____________________
• Isabel STANLEY
• Born: ABT 1435, Hooton, Cheshire, England
• Father: William STANLEY
• Mother: Alicia HOUGHTON
• Married: Robert LEIGH
• Children:
  • 1. Agnes LEIGH
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STANLEY4.htm ________________________
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great ..., Volume 3 By John Burke Pg.453-457
• http://books.google.com/books?id=yshsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA454&lpg=PA454&dq...
• Pg. 454
• ROGERT LEGH, esq. of Adlington, wedded, first, Isabella, daughter of John Savage, of Clifton, by whom he had no issue; and, secondly, Isabella, daughter of Sir William Stanley, knt. of Hooton; by whom he had,
  • I. ROBERT, his heir.
  • I. Margaret, m. first to Thomas Mere, of Mere; and secondly to Robert Reddish, of Catteral.
  • II. Margery, m. to William Davenport, esq. of Bramall.
  • III. Isabel, m. first, to Laurence Warren, esq. of Poynton; and, secondly, to Sir George Holford, of Holford.
  • IV. Matilda, m. to John Mainwaring, esq. of Peover.
  • V. Agnes, m. to Sir Andrew Brereton, of Brereton.
  • VI. ___ m. to ___ Pigott, esq. of Chetwynd, Salop.
• Robert Legh was s. at his decease (inq. p. m. 18 Edward IV.) by his son,
  • ROBERT LEGH, esq. of Adlington, who m. Ellen dau. of Sir Robert Booth, of Dunham-Massey, and had six sons and five daughters, namely, ______________________
• Alice SAVAGE
• Father: John SAVAGE (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Dorothy VERNON
• Married: William BRERETON (son of Andrew Brereton and Agnes Leigh) ABT 1488, Clifton, Cheshire, England
• Children:
  • 1. William BRERETON (b. 1506) (m. Anne Booth)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/SAVAGE.htm#Alice SAVAGE5 ________________________

References

• John Paul Rylands, ed., The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 etc, (London: Harleian Society, 1882), pp.147-8. https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/148/mode/2up
• “Hand-list of the Legh of Booths Charters in the John Rylands Library”. By F. Taylor, M.A., PhD, Keeper of Manuscripts and Assistant Librarian in the John Rylands Library. Page 247. < PDF >