Margaret was born about 1370, the daughter of John Ward and Katherine de Hamerton. The place is not known.
She died about 1417 in Rufford, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England.[Note 2]
Her husband was Nicholas Hesketh. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their two known children were Thomas (c1388-c1413) and Hugh (c1390-?).
| Event | Date | Details | Source | Multimedia | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | ABT 1370 | ||||||
| Death | ABT 1417 |
| See Note 2 |
Note 1
!Source: Visitation of Lancashire by Richard St. George, 1613, page 128. https://johnhoughton.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1613_visitation.pdf
Heskayth.
[Harl. MS. 1437, fo. 124 b, 125.].
Arms. — The first twelve quarterings of the shield described at fo. 110.
Entered.
,…,
Nicholas Heskayth, = Margaret, dau. and coheire of . . .
esq. | Mynshull, obiit at Rufford, 5 H. 5· [1417/8]
!Source: Lady Margaret Ward of Minshull https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZXZ-K47/lady-margaret-ward-of-minshull-1377-1416
Female 1377–1416 • LZXZ-K47
Brief Life History of Margaret
When Lady Margaret Ward of Minshull was born in 1377, in Church Minshull, Cheshire, England, her father, John Ward of Minshull, was 23 and her mother, Katherine de Hamerton, was 27. She married Nicholas Hesketh in 1389. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died in 1416, in Rufford, Lancashire, England, at the age of 39.
Family Members
Spouse
Nicholas Hesketh
Male
1377–1416
Lady Margaret Ward of Minshull
Female
1377–1416
Marriage
1389
Children
Sir Thomas Hesketh
Male
1406–1463
Parents
John Ward of Minshull
Male
1355–Deceased
Katherine de Hamerton
Female
1350–1409
Siblings
Lady Margaret Ward of Minshull
Female
1377–1416
!Source: The National Archives' catalogue https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5686112
DL - Records of the Duchy of Lancaster
Division within DL - Records of the Chancellor and Council of the Duchy of Lancaster
DL 25 - Duchy of Lancaster: Deeds, Series L
Catalogue description Appointment by Nicholas Hesketh and Margaret his wife of Robert de Rughford as their...
Reference: DL 25/1023
Description:
Appointment by Nicholas Hesketh and Margaret his wife of Robert de Rughford as their attorney to deliver seisin to John de Stanley, knight, lord of Lathom, of their messuages and land in Kendal: .
Note: Date in the old typescript catalogue stated as 9 Hen IV
Date: [1407-1408]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Not Public Record
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
!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.
—
Thomas de Hesketh and others of
Rufford were outlawed for debt in 1411 ;
Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, App. 173.
Thomas married Sibyl, who was a widow <<<< Thomas Hesketh of Hesketh [~1350 - <1413] was also married to a Sybil. She was a widow.
in 1413, when she made a lease of her
dower lands to Nicholas de Hesketh ; <<<< Nicholas ~1370 was husband of Margaret Mynshul, heiress of Rufford. He was also father of Thomas Hesketh of Rufford ~1388 married to Sibil Lawrence. Their son Thomas born ~1406.
Dods, MSS. cxlii, fol. 105. This Nicholas
is not called her son.
—
Nicholas de Hesketh and Margaret his
wife in 1407 made a feoffment of lands
in Kendal, Robert de Rufford being the
attorney; Duchy of Lanc. Anct. D.
L 1023. Margaret daughter and heir of
John Ward and widow of Nicholas de
Hesketh died at Rufford in 1417; Dods,
op. cit. fol. 111. See also Dep. Keeper’s
Rep. xxxiii, App. 14.
—
1 He proved his age in 1428 ; Lancs.
Ing. p.m. , ii, 21. A Nicholas <<<< A Nicholas other than Thomas Father.
Hesketh, aged fifty and more, deposed
that Thomas was born at the Holmes <<<< Thomas, son of Nicholas [1370] and Margaret.
early in 1406, and baptized at Croston
Church, Sibyl Hesketh being his god- <<<< Eventual guardian of Thomas, son of Nicholas [1370] and Margaret.
mother.
Note 2
5 H 5