THE DOWNES FAMILY OF CHESHIRE
CHART XVI
1250 Robert Downes of Taxhall[1]
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1280 William Downes of Shrigley[2]
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1310 William, lv 1345
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1340
Sir William, lv 1359, 1385
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1376
Robert, ob 1436
1375 Editha
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1398 Robert, ob 1460
Roger Walcot 1360
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CHART I
1420
Robert[3], ob 1489
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1445
Robert, ob 1489
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1467 Roger, ob 1527
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1492
Roger, ob 1553
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1520
Laurence, ob 1564
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1545 Roger====Elisabeth Stanley 1555
ob 1602 CHART XII
The Charts cross-referenced above can be seen by clicking on the appropriate
links which follow the notes below
NOTES:
[1] This family held the manors of Downes and
Taxhall in Cheshire and this Robert was a forester
[2] William de Downes acquired lands at Shrigley, also in Chester
[3] This Robert Downes is described as "armiger" on a monument at Prestbury,
probably bearing the arms of Sir William "sable, a stag (or buck) lodged argent".
He and his son, Robert, both died the same year and are buried at Prestbury;
on their monument, these arms are impaled with the arms of his wife and again with those of his son's wife
SOURCES:
[1] The basic Downes pedigree is from J.P. Earwaker's "East Cheshire Past &
Present", pp 321
[2] Visitation of Shropshire of 1623, pp 476 for the mariage of Editha Downes
to Roger Walcot
