Re: Descent of Fitton of Gawsworth from barons of Dunham Massy

_RootsWeb: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Re: Descent of Fitton of Gawsworth from barons of
Dunham Massy_

Doug~

If Cecily were the daughter of Hamon Massy V instead of Hamon Massy VI then
why would Thomas Fitton have an interest in the settlement made by Hamon Massy
VI with Oliver de Ingham when there were other heirs of Hamon Massy VI
living? It seems that for Thomas Fitton and his wife Isabell Orreby to have an
interest in the Massy-Ingham settlement then Isabell's mother Cecily Massy
must be Cecily, eldest daughter of Hamon VI. Thanks for any input.

Todd Whitesides

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What I have (with numbers for convenience):

Hamon V = Alice Whitney and had:

A. Hamon VI=(2) Mary Beachamp
Cecily=John Fitton of Bollin
Isabel=Hugh Dutton

B. Cecily=Thomas Orreby and had:
Isabella=(3) Thomas Fitton of Gawsworth

C. Dionisia-Richard Latham

Sources (partial):

Charles Fitch-Northen called "The Trowbridge Ancestry" (The
Genealogist, vol. 9 [spring 1988]: 3-31) for information on the
ancestry of Sir Hamon Mascy's wife Mary Beauchamp.
NEHGR 139: 283-287.
Suffolk Manorial Families, chart "Drury of Thurston", p 346., History
of Cheshire.
Herald's Roll.
Visitation of the North, Part IV, Visitation of Yorkshire and
Northumberland in A. D. 1575, and a Book of Arms from Ashmole MS. No.
834, Publications of the Surtees Society, Vol. CXLVI, Durham, (1932), p
135 [arms shown as quarterly gules and or, a lion passant in the
quarter, argent].
Visitation of Cheshire, 1580, pps 188-189.

Given the limited number of dates I have and four heiresses, this makes
sense to me.

Doug Smith