UNKNOWN Massye

Personal and Family Information

Unknown was born about 1406, the daughter of Hamon Massye and Ellen. The place is not known.

Her husband was Thomas Hesketh, who she married in ABT 1431. The place has not been found. Their only known child was Robert (c1427-1490).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Source: MASCY of RIXTON https://tsgf.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/153298095/MASCY%20of%20Rixton.pdf

Hamon Mascy [died 1436 and Ellen]

Hamon married by 1400 Ellen, daughter and co-heir of William de Horton of Hartford, Cheshire. [As a result of this

marriage the Mascy arms became quartered with the squirrel sejant of the Hortons]. Hamon and Ellen had five sons

and four daughters. He added to his Rixton possessions by purchasing the lands of Richard le Smith.15 Hamon made

grants of land to his sons in 1436. He died on 20 June 1436 [writ diem clausit extremum 9 July] and was survived by

his widow.16 His inquisition post mortem was held publically at Warrington before Thomas de Lathum [the king’s

excheator] on the Wednesday before St Margaret the Virgin that year: it found that Hamon had held the manors of

Glazebrook and Rixton and that his son and heir William was 31.

Hamon’s heir William [1405–c.1447/8] married in 1415 Petronilla, daughter of Richard Warburton of ‛Burges’ in

Cogshall township [Great Budworth, Cheshire] and succeeded his father in 1436. In 1435/6 William confirmed

grants made by his father to [his brothers] Richard and George.

There were four other sons: Richard; Thomas [rector of Warrington from 1448 to 1464]; John; and George; and

four daughters: Elizabeth [married John Leycester in 1422]; Margaret [married Thomas, second son of Sir Thomas

Hesketh c.1431]; Matilda [the first wife of John Hyde of Norbury]; and Douce [married Harre, son and heir of

Nicholas of Atherton in 1430].

!Source: Full text of "The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;"

The Victoria history of the Counties of England, EDITED BY WILLIAM PAGE, F.S.A., A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE, VOLUME VI, THE VICTORIA HISTORY

https://archive.org/stream/cu31924088434620/cu31924088434620_djvu.txt#:~:text=k%20[Standish]%2C%20211%20Emmott%20[Whalley]%2C%20525%20Euxton,[p]%20115%2C%20[m]%20115%20Thorp%20[Croston]%2C%20104.

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An inquisition made in 1509 shows

that he held the manor of Ruford, the

advowson of the chantry, the reversion

of the lands held by Margaret his mother, <<<< Probably Margaret Massy’s sister. “UNKNOWN”, again mixing up th two sisters.

with the manor of Murtholme and lands

in Harwiol, &e. ‘The date of his death

is given as 29 Sept. 1490, at which time

Thomas his son and heir was over twenty- <<<< Over 35. We are getting the two lines mixed again.

four years old; Duchy of Lanc. Inq.

p-m. iti, no. ~2,

Source: Visitation of Lancashire by William Flower, 1567, p. 80. https://johnhoughton.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1567_visitation.pdf

Hesketh of Rufford.

[Hart. MS. fo. 70. Chetham MS. fo. -.]

Arms. - Quarterly o[ five, viz: 1. Argent, on a bend sable, three garbs or; 2. Barry of six, argent and azure, in chief three

lozenges, gules; 3. Argent, a cross flory, sable; 4. Argent, a fess gules; 5. Sable, three mullets, each issuing

from a crescent, argent.

Sir William Heskethe,

knt. |

I

Thomas Heskethe = ... dau. of ...

of Rufforde, ar., | Massy of Rix-

sonne and heire, | ton, co. Lan-

co. Lancaster. | caster, ar.

- |

Robert Heskethe = Grace, dau. of

of Rufforde, | … Phyton of

sonne and heire. | Gawseworthe,

| co. Chester,

| knt.

- |_________________________________________________________________________________________

- | | | | |

Grace, dau. = Thomas Hesketh = Alice, dau. of Richard, William, ... a dau. … , a dau.

of Sir John | of Rufford, ar. | Christopher 2 sonne. third sonne, maryed to maryed to

Towneley of | | Haworthe, bishop of Rich. Awgh- Sir Henry

Towneley, | | second wyf. Man. ton of the Kyghley of

co. Lancas- | | Myles, co. Ingkippe,

ter, knt. | | Lancaster. co. Lancas-

| |______________________________________________________ ter, knt

| | | |

William Hesketh, Sir Robert Hesketh, = Grace, dau. of Charles, Helene,

dyed sans yssue. knt., obiit 1539. | Sir John 3 sonne. maryed to

| Towneley of Laurence

| Towneley,knt.; Towneley of

| obiit 21 Maii, Barnshed,

| 1543· co. Ebor., ar.

________________________________________________________________________

| | | |

Sir Thomas Hesketb = Alice, dau. of Robert, Jane, Helene,

of Rufford, co. Lan- | Sir J olm Hol- 2 sonne. maryed to maryed to

caster, knt., sonne and | crafte of Hol- Richard Richard Bar-

heire of Sir Robert. | crafte, co. Asheton of ton of Bar-

| Lancaster, knt. Croston, co. ton Rowe,

Lancaster,ar. co. Lancas-

ter, ar.

__________________________________________________________________

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Robert Heskett = Mary, dau. of Thomas, Richard, Dorothe. Margarett.

of Rufford, esq., Sir George 2 sonne. 3 sonne.

sonne and heire Stanley of

of Sir Thomas. Crossehall, co.

Lancaster, knt.

-

Note: Location Rufford is 4.92 miles from Hesketh Bank, Preston, Lancashire.