English Pedigrees: Leycester of Toft, Cheshire, England
Joan, the daughter and heir of Robert Toft of Toft, married Rafe Leycester, younger brother of John Leycester of Tabley, and began the family of Leycester of Toft.
Sources
- George Ormerod, "Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the County of the City of Chester and Bucklow Hundred", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed, Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), I:503-7.