??? Connection between the Mainwaring families of Nantwich and Lydbury North ???

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.