The Brereton Family of Brereton, Cheshire
William de Bowyer of Knypersley, living in the reign of King Henry VII, was married to Katherine, the daughter of Sir Andrew
Brereton of Brereton. This couple were the 15th great grandparents of Michael Gregory, leading down through the line of
Bowyer1 four generations earlier, when Hannah Bowyer (b. ca 1600) married Michael Gregory’s direct ancestor, William Glegg
of Gayton (b. 1589)2.
Sir Andrew Brereton, a younger son, (born 1438; died 1495) was the eventual heir of his father, Sir William Brereton (d. 1484),
the Baron of Malpas and Lord of Egerton and Brereton. Sir William married Phillippa Hulsa, the daughter of Sir Hugh de Hulse
of Raby. In 1396, Sir Hugh was made Chief Justice of Chester at 40 Marks per annum. He was a Judge of the Kings Bench 1388
and 1398. He died in 1404. He was married to Margaret Domville. Sir Hugh’s father was Hugh de Huls who was married to
Ellen Bruen of Picmere. This Hugh’s father was Sir William de Huls and he was married to Sybil Norbury.
Returning to the Brereton family, the father of Sir William was William de Brereton VIII. He died with his father, Sir William de
Brereton, at the Battle of Harfleur in 1402. He was married to Alice Corbet (d.1458).
For a further five generations the Brereton family (see attached pedigree) line ascends through William to Ralph de Brereton II,
Lord of Brereton (occurs 1275). His father was William de Brereton II. He married Margery de Thornton. The father of Sir
William II was Ralph de Brereton I, whose father was William de Brereton I, and grandfather, Ralph de Brereton I (occurs ca.
1100).
It is said that the Brereton family, Lords of the Manor of Malpas, were founded by the younger son of Gilbert de Venables, from
whom they are descended: this supposition is supported by the similarity of arms that they bore, which differ on the tincture. A
full pedigree is given in George Ormerod’s “A History of Cheshire and the County Palatine” and also in Burke’s Peerage. The
family was raised to the Peerage in the 17th century, but is now extinct in the senior line. Robert, Lord Clive of Plassey (Clive of
India), the present Earls of Powys and Earls of Plymouth, are descended from this family.
Date of Report:
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2
22 December 2007
See: Gregory, M.P., (2007), “The Bowyer Family of Knypersley, Staffordshire”, Personal Family History Report.
See: Gregory, M.P., (2006), “The Glegg(e) Family of Cheshire”, Personal Family History Report.
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Descent From Ralph de Brereton to Michael Gregory
Ralph de Brereton I
=
[---?---]
William de Brereton
Lord of Brereton
=
[---?---]
Sir Ralph de Brereton I
=
Sir William de Brereton II
Lord of Brereton
[---?---]
= Margery de Thornton
Sir Ralph de Brereton II
= [---?---]
Sir William de Brereton III
Lord of Brereton
= Margaret de Sandbach of Sandbach
Sir William de Brereton IV = Rose de Vernon of Shipbrook
Lord of Brereton
Occurs 1301, 1321 and 1340/1
Sir William de Brereton V
Died before his father
= Margaret Bosley
Sir William de BreretonVI
Baron of half of Malpas,
Lord of Egerton and
Brereton.
Governor of Caen
b. 14 Feb., 1348 at Egerton
Bap. Malpas
d. 1402 Battle of Harfleur
of “honourable wounds”
=
William de Brereton
Died at Harfleur
With his father
=
William de Brereton
=
Sir Andrew Brereton =
Ellen de Egerton
Alice Corbet
Richard de Bosley
Sir William de Huls
Sir Hugh de Huls
=
=
[---?---]
= Sybil de Norbury
Ellen Bruen of Picmere
Phillippa de Hulse
[---?---]
William Bowyer of Knypersley
=
Katherine Brereton
A
2
A
William Bowyer de Knypersley, 17 Hen VII
Elizabeth, ux
William Bexington
Andrew Bowyer,
of Clements Inne,
cler
Matilda = Rd. Edge
Bowyer
of Horton,
ob. 1592
George Bowyer
Merchant of London
2nd son
Elena, ux. Thomas
Dorington, de com.
Salop
Sir William Bowyer
Of Knypersley and Sidway
mil. 1583-98
d. 1601
Thomas Bowyer
Of Newport
3rd son
Bap. 1568
Anne
Alice
Elene
Ursula
Elizabeth
Francis
Bowyer
2nd son
Bap. 1563
ob. 1633 osp
William
Bowyer
6th son
Bap. 1579
d. osp
Ellena, ux Randall
Rayne, of Elsworth
=
1. Margery, dau of William = John Bowyer of
Egerton, of Wall-grange,
Knypersley &
(divorced)
Sidway, e.s. & h.
1542-1598
Anne, f. & c.h. William
Hayward, de Stonylowe
and Blackhill, Salop
d. 8 Apr 1603
Sir John Bowyer, MP =
of Knypersley
b. 1557
= Katherine, dau of Sir Andrew Brereton, de Brereton, Militis.
Margaret
Catherine, dau of Sir
Christopher Yelverton,
Just. of Kings Bench
Speaker of the House
of Commons (1594)
b. 1536
d. 1612
=
=
William Forde
of ye Mosse, nr.
Horton
Richard =
Bowyer
Bap. 1572
5th son
dau and heir
of Richard
Allen, of
Milwich
2. Elizabeth, dau and heir
of John Blackenhall,
of Sidwaylam, com
Suffolk, ux 2.
Thomas Bowyer of
Madeley & Stoughton
John Bowyer
George
Bowyer
4th son
Bap. 1571
=
Anne Bowyer = John Wedgwood, of ye Felicia, ux Rodg Serjeant of
High Collector of
Bagenholt
Subsidy, 1563
Thomas Bowyer = [?] Fox
of Broadheath
John Wedgwood (had with his = Mary, dau of
ux part of the manor of Horton)
Thomas Egerton
of Walgrange
dom de Horton
Wm Bowyer of
Heath House =
Mercy Stone, dau
of John Stone
Anne, dau of
___ Grovesnor
of Belaport
See Yelverton Personal
Family History Report
The daughter of Sir John Bowyer and Catherine Yelverton
married Sir William Glegg (see below)
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GLEGGE PEDIGREE
WILLIAM GLEGG of Caldey = HANNAH, daughter of Sir John
Grange, esq. aged upwards
Bowyer of Knipersley, co.
of 24 years at the Visitation
Stafford, [married in or about
th
of 1613, died 15 Dec.
Nov 14 Jac. 1.,] died 20th
1644, aged 57 years, buried
Sept. 1670, buried at West
at West Kirby.
Kirby, aged 70 years.
HESTER
GLEGG.
HANNAH, only daugh. = JOHN GLEGG of
Obiit Sept 19, 1729,
Tranmore, gent.
Bur. At West Kirby,
3d son, living
a aet. 41 Had iss.
1703
ROGER = MARTHA,
GLEGG. daughter
of ….
Moss,
Obiit Sept.
2, 1697
ALICE,
wife of
George Bennet
of Greaseby
ANNE, only = EDWARD GLEGG = MARGARET, dau.
daughter of
of Caldey
William Glegg
Roger
Grange, esq.
of Gayton, esq by
Lowndes of
aged 42 at the
Cicely, daughter
Overton
Visitation of
to Robert Sephton
co. Cest.
1664, born 1622,
of Mollington,
Obiit June
married Anne,
[gent., not]
5, 1675
dau. of …
esq., sister and coaged 51
Thelwall, esq.
heir to Thomas
years.
3d. wife, who
Sephton. 1st wife
died s.p.
JANE, daughter of John Scorer = EDWARD GLEGG of Irby,
Of Westminster, gent. Buried
esq. 2d son, obiit Dec
at Thurstanston, Mar 7, 1720
15, 1703, a aetat. 45;
a aet 46
buried at Thurstanston
ANNE, wife of the
Rev John Urmson
of Neston, ob. Feb.
6, 1769, aged 61
JOHN.
GILBERT, [living
14 Jac. 1.]
EDWARD.
ARTHUR [living
14 Jac. 1.]
PRUDENCE,
SILENCE,
Died young
ROGER, died
unmarried
Decem. 7,
1777
JOHN GLEGG of = FRANCES, eldest dau
Irby, esq. Eldest
of Henry Birkenhead
son and heir, ob.
Of Backford, and coMay 14, 1768
heiress of her uncle
Vide Backford
Thomas Birkenhead
GLEGGS of
Backford
DEBORAH, 2d dau. And coheiress = WILLIAM GLEGG of Grange, esq
of Henry Birkenhead of Backford
baptized at West Kirby, Dec 28,
Esq re-married to Lt Colonel
1704, died Dec 21, 1739, without
Charles Crosbie, o.s.p.
surviving issue
FRANCES, daugh. of = WILLIAM GLEGG, esq. only son = SIDNEY, dau of …
Thomas Jennings,
and heir, who sold the estate
Lloyd, living at Parkgate,
1st wife
1814
HANNAH
GLEGG, bur.
at West
Kirkby
Aug. 2
1663.
A daughter,
and four
younger
sons
WILLIAM GLEGG of = ?….
Grange, esq. son
dau of
and heir, aged 11
….
years 1664.
EDWARD GLEGG of = ELIZ, dau
Caldey Grange, esq.
and heiress
obiit Aug 4, 1714,
of John
aged 33 years, buried
Kent of
at West Kirby
Tranmore
EDWARD GLEGG,
baptized at West
Kirby, July 1706,
o.s.p.
MARY.
FRANCES.
MARGARET
GLEGG
MARGARET,
wife of …
Becket,
buried at
Haselwall,
1715
JOHN GLEGG = MARY, dau
of Grange, esq.
… Carr of
born 1712, ob.
Liverpool
April 23, 1749
ob. Feb 28,
1758, aet 39
MARGARET, obiit
Nov. 2, 1749
ABIGAIL,
bapt. 1708
SILENCE
bapt. 1710
CATHERINE,
obiit, March 1746
See below
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The Glegge Family (Ancestors of Michael Gregory)
Sidney Lloyd
b. 1752/53
m. 1774
d. 27 Mar 1822
bur Neston
Admon. 1822
=
William Glegge
b. ca 1750
d. 1785
=
Frances Jennings
Emily
b. 1775
d. 20 Feb 1843 (Cheshire)
Thomas Glegge
b. ca 1775
Mariner (1800)
Mariner (1806)
d. 4 Feb 1818
=
Catherine Davies
Francis Glegge
dau of Wm Davies
d. By 1851?
(Ropemaker)
b. 1777 (St John’s Liverpool)
m. Nov 1793
d. 4 Nov 1859
Living at Elm Terrace
Tranmere (1851) Proprietor of Houses
Thomas Glegge
b. 1800 (Liverpool)
Master Mariner
d. 18 Aug 1848
=
Mary Miller
b. 1808 (Liverpool)
Living 5 Osborne
Terrace Liverpool
(1851)
William Glegge
Emily
b. 1838 (Liverpool)
b. 1834 (Liverpool)
Living at 5 Osborne
Living at 5 Osborne
Terrace, Liverpool (1851) Terrace, Liverpool
(1851)
Mary Glegge =
b. 22 May 1806
m. 3 Jan 1828
d. 7 Jan 1885
Frances
William
Humphrey Thomas
b. 1 Jan 1807
m. 3 Jan 1828
d. 13 Jan 1877
Thomas Glegge Thomas
architect
b. 11 Jun 1829
Tranmere, Cheshire
d. 18 Nov 1881
Tranmere (age 52)
=
[-?-]
[-?-]
William
b. 12 July 1803
d. By 1836?
Eliza Catherine George
b. 9 Sep 1826
m. 25 Sep 1851
Walton on the Hill
Lancashire
See Below
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Line of Descent from Thomas Glegge Thomas to Michael Gregory
THOMAS GLEGGE THOMAS
b. 11 Jun 1829
Architect
RALPH ABRAHAM BLAKE
Shopkeeper
b. 1854
= MARY CATHERINE THOMAS
b. 30 Oct 1853 Tranmere
bp. 13 Jul 1854
St Nicholas’ Church, Liverpool
m. 11 May 1878
See Blake Family History
Report and Genealogy Chart
No 8
=
GEORGE THOMAS
b. 1 Nov 1855 Tranmere
ALFRED THOMAS
b. ca 1856
TYSILIO THOMAS
b. ca 1857-60
WILLIAM ARTHUR
THOMAS
b. ca 1858
ELISA CATHERINE GEORGE
b. 9 Sep 1828
m. 25 Sep 1851
Walton-on-the-Hill
Lancashire
HENRY THOMAS
ELIZA
GLEGGE THOMAS
b. 14 Apr 1865
b. 1 Nov 1855 (Tranmere)
MARTHA EMILY
Tranmere
b. ca 1862
WILLIAM ARTHUR THOMAS
Tranmere
b. 20 Jan 1871
Tranmere
WALTER AUBREY THOMAS = MAUD PARIS
b. 14 Dec 1863
b. ca 1868 (Chester)
Architect (1881)
d. aged 75 (?) in 1934
FREDERICK JOHN HALL GREGORY
b. 29 Oct 1884
Glen Parva Barracks, Leicester
=
FREDERICK WILLIAM GREGORY
Colchester
b. 25 Dec 1906 Colchester
d. 1 March 1975 Blackburn
=
ANNIE BLAKE
b. 8 Apr 1886 in Mold, Clwyd
m. 5 Nov 1906 St James RC
Church, Colchester
MARGARET MARY O’NEILL
m. 26 December 1929, St Chad’s Church,
Cheetham Hill, Manchester
d. 10 July 1989 in Wigan
DORRIT M
b. ca 1890 (Neston)
HUMPHREY THOMAS
b. ca 1897 (Neston)
LOUISA E THOMAS
b. ca 1888 (Neston)
WINSOME
b. ca 1890
AUBREY
b. after 1881
d. 30 Nov 1945
EDWARD THOMAS
b. ca 1892 (Neston)
OLIVER G THOMAS
b. ca 1895 (Neston)
WALTER G THOMAS
b. ca 1887 (Birkenhead)
WINIFRED C THOMAS
b. ca 1894 (Neston)
GLEGGE THOMAS
b. after 1881
See O’Neill Family
History Report and Genealogy Chart No 3
MALCOLM PETER GREGORY
b. 26 February 1935
Hayfield, Manchester
Blackburn
d. 2001 Blackburn
MICHAEL PETER GREGORY
=
BERNADETTE CAFFREY
b. 13 April 1934, Blackburn
m. 21 July 1956, St Peter’s RC Church,
d. 2001 Blackburn
See Caffrey Family History Report and Genealogy Chart No 2
See Gregory Family History Report and Genealogy Chart No 1
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