Thomas (Legh) Leghe DD (1594 - 1639)

Biography

Thomas Legh was born in 1594 in Disley, Cheshire, England, a younger son of Piers Legh and Margaret Gerard.^[1]

Thomas married Lettice Calveley (born in Cheshire; daughter of Sir George Calveley and Mary (Cholmondeley) Calveley) on 13 June, 1629, when the Archdeaconry of Chester issued a licence to marry without proclamation of banns, addressed to Reverends Jeynson, Vicar of Prestbury, Cheshire, and Richardson, Clerks; Bondsman: Francis Leghe, Gent.^[2] Lettice was the daughter of Sir George Calveley of Lea, Cheshire, and coheir of her brother Sir Hugh Calveley.^[3] Their children were:

• Richard Legh (1634–1687)born 7 May, 1634, died 31 August, 1687,^[3] married by licence dated 31 December, 1660, Elizabeth daughter of Sir Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, she died 1728;^[3]
• Thomas Legh of Blackley, Lancashire & Lyme, Cheshire (b. 06 Oct 1636 - d. 22 Sep 1697; bur. Macclesfield).^[4]
• Frances Posthuma Legh (~1635– ) married Sir Richard Brooke, Baronet of Norton^[5]
• Mary Legh, born about 1636, married Sir John Arderne of Harden Hall and died on 22 June 1703, leaving surviving children.^[6]

Thomas died in 1639 in Sefton, Lancashire, England.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ E Baines, "Legh of Lyme & Haydock." History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (1836), III:644. e-Book Google Books (https://books.google.com/books?id=P_RTAAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=legh%20and%20katherine%20bold&pg=PA644#v=onepage&q&f=false).
2. ↑ Wm Fergusson Irvine, MA, ed., Marriage Licences Granted Within the Archdeaconry of Chester in the Diocese of Chester. Vol III. 1624-1632. (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire (LVII),1909), III:157, e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/recordsociety57recouoft/page/157/mode/1up : accessed 12 January, 2023).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} M W Helms and Irene Cassidy, "Legh, Richard (1634-87), of Lyme, Cheshire," The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690 ed. B D Henning, (1983). The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/legh-richard-1634-87 : accessed 12 January, 2023).
4. ↑ Henning, B.D. (1983). "Legh, Thomas (1636-97), of Blackley, Lancs. and Lyme, Cheshire," in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690. HOP. Web.
5. ↑ Cheshire Archives and Local Studies: Reference: DBN/C/2/22 Title: SETTLEMENT Description: (Cp.) prior to the MARRIAGE of Thomas Brooke, esq., s. & h. of Sir Richard Brooke of Norton, Bart., with Grace Wilbraham, one of the daughters of Roger Wilbraham of Nantwich, esq., between (1) the said Sir R. Brooke and Dame Francisca Posthuma his wife, and the said Thomas Brooke, (2) the said Roger Wilbraham, the said Grace Wilbraham, Sir Thomas Bellott of Moreton, Bart., and Sir John Arderne of Hawarden, Knt., and (3) Peter Legh of Lyme, Richard Legh of High Legh, esquires, Randall Wilbraham, s. & h. of said Roger Wilbraham, and Ralph Wilbraham, s. & h. of Peter Wilbraham of Dorfold, esq., in Consideration of the marriage and of £3500 paid by Roger Wilbraham to Sir R.Brooke as the marriage portion of his daughter Grace, whereby... Date: 1688, 4. May The National Archives, Kew
6. ↑ George Ormerod, Thomas Helsby, ed., The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Comp. 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 London: G. Routledge, 1882, vol. II, p. 86
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