John Byron

1387 - Abt 1450  (63 years)

• Name	John Byron  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	1387	of Clayton, Lancashire, England   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1450  [7]
  Alternate death	Abt 1460  [4]
  Person ID	I16001	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Richard de Byron,   b. of Clayton, Lancashire, England d. 27 Jun 1397
  Mother	Joan Colewick,   b. of Colewick, Nottinghamshire, England d. 8 Oct 1426
  Marriage	Bef 1387  [6, 9]
  Family ID	F1463	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Booth,   b. of Barton, Lancashire, England d. Abt 1460
  Children	+ 1. Margaret Byron   d. 25 May 1486 + 2. Elizabeth Byron
  Family ID	F10029	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Knight of the shire for Lancashire, 1421 and 1429. Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire, 1447. Sheriff of Lancashire 1439-49. "He is believed to have been buried in Manchester Cathedral where remains of a memorial brass are attributed to him." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S5944] History of the Pilkington Family of Lancashire by John Pilkington. London, 1912. [S3034] John C. J. Brown, "The Atherton Family in England." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 35:67, Jan 1881. [S812] The Victoria County History of Lancaster. Portions online, linked from medievalgenealogy.org.uk. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., place only. [S413] Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013. [S3835] The Baronetage of England, Volume 1, by E. Kimber and R. Johnson. London, 1771., place only. [S5950] History of Colwick by Alan Cook. 1972., says "about 1380".