Born abt 1345. Died aft 1410. Title: Lord of Whympston, co. Devon, England.He married Elizabeth BEAUCHAMP, bef 1394.
They had one child:
| 730104 | i. | William (~1385-) |
1460209 Elizabeth BEAUCHAMP.
Born bef 1349. Died aft 1410.1460210 John FALWELL.
Child:
| 730105 | i. | Matilda |
1460216 Sir Richard CHAMPERNOWNE.
He married Katherine DAUBENY.
They had one child:
| 730108 | i. | John |
1460217 Katherine DAUBENY.
1465344 Owen OWEN.
Born in 1350 in Owestry, Shropshire, England.Child:
| 732672 | i. | Cadwallader (1375-) |
1497088 Richard de STANDISH.
Born in Duxbury, England. Died in 1356. Title: Lord of the Manor.Child:
| 748544 | i. | Hugh |
1497090 Henry de STANDISH.
Died in 1396. Title: Lord of the Manor.Henry's brothers had followed the traditional occupations of the younger sons of those days, either military service or the church. Robert and Ralph had been knighted, Robert having been appointed Sheriff of Lancaster, while Ralph was an esquire to the Black Prince, whom he served in Acquitaine. Gilbert and Edward entered the church, Gilbert being Rector of Standish an Edmund most likely the one known as Brother Edmund de Standish, who was one of the Black Friars of Chester.
Henry made an agreement with his neighbour Richard de Langtree, as their respective fathers had done before them, about the division of the wastes of Standish and Langtree, which they and their ancestors had enclosed. Friends of both acted as arbitrators to ensure that an equal value was put on the wastes and enclosures they each claimed. These wastes amounted to three hundred acres and the wood at Standish stretched from the manor park to the boundaries of Wigan at that time. The pastures lay to the north-west of the township, the Pepper Lane and Almond Brook area of today, stretching from the church to the borders of Wrightington. Henry de Standish's seal on the agreement was a saltire within an engrailed bordure.
About the same time the two Lords of the adjacent manors of Standish and Langtree acquired some pasture rights within the townships which had been held by Thomas de Eccleston and Robert de Standish, son of Edmund. This they did by grant of land. It is interesting to note that in many of these land deals no money is involved. They seem to be carried out by land exchange. Henry de Fairclough exchanged land in Foxholes for land in Gathurst Hey with Robert de Standish, and witness to this deed were Henry de Standish, Hugh de Standish and Richard de Langtree. This may refer to Fairhurst Hall in Shevington. During the same period, William de Waleys of Arley granted to Robert, son of Edmund de Standish, all his land in Blackrod and Worthington and the dower of his mother there.
In 1364 Henry granted six acres of land in Standish to Hugh de Ince and Robert de Hulton, son of Agnes. He also granted Hugh de Standish a plot of land, called Bolton Field. This was just South-east of the Boar's Head Inn, on the metes or Wigan boundary, on the east side of the main road between "Wygan and Standyssh as far as the flow of the waters of the Dogles (Douglas)", and would also extend as far as Sicklefield. It was on that land that a workman digging a trench, in 1926, came upon a hoard of Roman coins. In return for this Henry was granted a moiety of fifteen acres of waste in Standish and Langtree.
He married Joan WORSLEY.
They had the following children:
| 2994208 | i. | Ralph (-1418) | |
| 748545 | ii. | Alice | |
| iii. | John |
1497091 Joan WORSLEY.
1497104 Laurence de STANDISH.
Died in 1434. Title: Lord of the Manor.Laurence had three sons, Alexander, the eldest and heir to the manor, who later became a knight, Roger, who was by now Rector of Standish, and Oliver. It was Lawrence who made the agreement with Henry de Berkheud for Eleanor, his sister, to marry Henry's son, John and he contracted to pay Henry "forty marks on certain days as agreed."
Lawrence also revived the ancient Standish claim to an advowson of Wigan Church, and this time it led to violence between the Standishes and the Langtons. As a result an indenture was drawn up and both sides were to appoint arbitrators with the Bishop of Durham acting as umpire. But even this did not finally settle the quarrel. A few years later it broke out again and this time, Alice, wife of John Gerard of Bryn, was called upon as arbitrator. Although this lady was connected by marriage with the Standish family, for in 1421 Lawrence de Standish had arranged a marriage between his son, Alexander, and Constance, her daughter, yet Alice Gerard must have been a person having the confidence and respect of both parties. Among the deeds there is an indenture written in English, and of interest in its archaic wording and spelling, of which the following is an extract:
"Whereas debate and variaunce is and has been had between Thomas, Bishop of Durham (Duresme), Rauf de Langeton, knyght, Henry of Kyghley, Will of Langeton, parson of the Kirke of Wygan, and James Langeton on the one parte and Laurence de Standisshe, esquire; Alexander his son and heir apparent on the other parte; and also great debate and variaunce and heviness has been hade ymong their ancesteres of the said Rauf and Laurence for divers maters, and one ymonges other as for advowson of the Kirke of Wygan, the quiche the said Rauf and Laurence callen the chappell of Wygan; and for the quiche debate variaunce and hevinesse divers persons of their negh kyn and blode have ben sume woundet and sume slayn, to gret soro and hevinesse to the kyn and frendes of ye said Rauf and Laurence."
They were to abide by the award of Alice Gerard and were bound in large sums to keep the award. After hearing all the evidence she found that Ralph de Langeton and his ancestors had had the presentation and advowson of the said church of "full olde tyme"; that it was a parish "kirke" and no chapel and that there was not enough proof shown to her that Laurence of Standish or his ancestors had ever presented any clerk to the church nor proof that Laurence had any title to the advowson or any part therein. There was a number of other clauses, dealing with the release of lands to provide rent to pay Laurence on the understanding that he did not pursue his claim. In the clauses are named Gilbert, Robert, James, Dakyn, John and Thurstan, all de Standishes. By 1432 Laurence and Alexander had remitted all their rights as far as the advowson of Wigan Church was concerned.
Two years later, in 1434, Laurence died and Alexander became Lord of the Manor.
He married Lora PILKINGTON, in 1398.
They had one child:
| 748552 | i. | Alexander (-1445) |
1497105 Lora PILKINGTON.
1497106 John GERARD.
Born abt 1386. Died on 6 Nov 1431. Of: Kingsley, in the parish of Frodsham, co. Chester, and of Byrn, co. Lancaster, England. Title: Lord of the manors of Kingsley and Bryn.He married Alice BOTELER.
They had the following children:
| 748553 | i. | Constance (1402->1469) | |
| 1110624 | ii. | Peter (~1408-1447) |
1497107 Alice BOTELER.
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