1613 Visitation of Cheshire (HSP 59). Leo's database seems to indicate that
it may also be in older editions of BP and BLG, but I can't immediately
confirm this.
[I hadn't, however, been aware of Katherine Horton as the wife of William
Titley (who is also called Humphrey)...so this is probably from a source
other than the visitation pedigree.]
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From: "Sutliff" <suthen@redshift.com>
To: <GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: ??? Connection between the Mainwaring families of Nantwich and
Lydbury North ???
I cannot find a reference for this, so take this as just a possibility
rather than a certain placement. Having said that, I believe that Humphrey
may have been a son of William Mainwaring of Wich Malbank (son of Randle
Mainwaring of Carincham d. 1474 and his wife Margaret Savage). Humphrey's
mother is possibly Margaret Titley of Titley, Cheshire and Horton,
Shropshire, daughter of WIlliam Titley and Katherine Horton.
If this placement is correct, Humphrey would be one of five sons of
William
Mainwaring and Margaret Titley. Another brother was George d. 1571 and
husband of Julian Spurway and ancestor of the Connecticut immigrant Oliver
Manwaring (1634-1723).
HS
ToddWhitesides@aol.com> wrote in message
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Is anyone familiar with the Mainwaring family of Nantwich (Wich
Malbanke),
Cheshire, and its collateral branches? I plan to pursue this using
Ormerod,
parish registers, and so on, but wanted to through this inquiry out
there
in
case anyone else is interested in pursuing this family.
Cursory initial notes:
Humphrey Maynwaring, Gent., of Wich Malbanke, was bailiff of Combermere
and
Wilkesley from at least 1548 to 1578. He and some of his sons appear on
a
list of inhabitants of Wich Malbank dated 24 Mar. 1579/80. Heralds'
Visitations claim he married Alice, daughter of Randall Sadler, Gent.
He
appears to be
the father of at least the following individuals (order uncertain):
(1)
Roger, (2) John, (3) Thomas, (4) Randall, and (5) Alice.
(1) Roger Maynwaring of Nantwich, deceased by 1591 leaving a widow
Margaret
(who was alive in 1608/9). Their dau. Ales had a marriage settlement
dated
1581 with Rauffe Wilbraham of Nantwich.
(2) John Maynwaring, Gent., of Wich Malbanke, married Margerie (d/o
Thomas
Clutton, Gent., of Wich Malbanke. Their son Roger was christened in
Nantwich
in 1579.
(3) Thomas Maynwaring of Nantwich, called third son in the visitation.
Said
to have married Margaret (d/o Randall Crewe, Gent., of Nantwich).
(4) Randall Maynwaring, an inhabitant of Wich Malbanke in 1579/80.
(5) Alice Maynwaring, wife of John Crewe (ca. 1524-1598), Esq., of
Nantwich;
and mother of Sir Ranulph Crewe (1558-1646), MP, Lord Chief Justice.
Most Mainwaring families in Shropshire in the late 1500s can be
attributed
as off-shoots of Ightfield or Slepe (Sleap), but there is a cluster of
Mainwarings in southern Shropshire at that time who cannot be placed
with
the others
from the northern part of the county. An initial look at the onomastic
evidence supports a possible connection with the family of Humphrey
Mainwaring of
Nantwich. The southern Shropshire Mainwarings used Humphrey as a given
name
over and over.
Extremely tentative hypothesis:
Is it possible that Randall Maynwaring above married into the Marten
family
of Lydbury North, Shropshire? The family known as Mainwaring in Lydbury
North in the 1600s used Mainwaring, Marten, and Mainwaring alias Marten
interchangeably during the 1500s. Perhaps after the 1583 fire of
Nantwich
Randall
removed permanently to Lydbury North where his descendants used a local
alias to
show their connection to the region. Martinas Manwaring (possibly his
son)
was buried in Lydbury North in 1577, and Randle Mainwaring was buried
there
1614. There were two other possible sons: (1) John Mainwaring alias
Marten,
m. 1578 Margaret Franke, whose son Humfry Marten was christened in
1588;
and
(2) Humffry Maweringe (who used Marten frequently, and whose
descendants
used
Mainwaring alias Marten until the early 1600s), m. 1581 Margaret
Barker,
who
had at least the following children (not complete): (1) Charles chr.
1582,
(2) Elizabeth chr. 1584, (3) Anthony chr. 1591, (4) Humphrey chr.
1591,
(5)
Anthony chr. 1592, and (6) Edward Marten later called Mainwaring
(1599-1680).
The last named person, Edward Mainwaring (1599-1680) of Lydbury North,
Shropshire, was called a natural brother of Roger Maynwaring
(1589-1653),
D.D.,
Bishop of St. David's, in an exchequer deposition. Roger Maynwaring was
said
to have been born in Stretton, Shropshire, in biographies from as early
as
the
1600s. The various places using Stretton in their name in Shropshire
all
fall within eight miles of Lydbury North.