Jane Legh

Aft 1513 - Aft 1575  (> 61 years)

• Name	Jane Legh  [1]
  Birth	Aft 1513  [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 20 Nov 1575	Bromley, Staffordshire, England   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I35765	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Peter Legh,   b. Abt 1479, of Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England d. 4 Dec 1541, Bradley-in-Burtonwood, Lancashire, England (Age ~ 62 years)
  Mother	Margaret de Tyldesley,   b. of Tyldesley, Lancashire, England
  Marriage	Abt 17 Jan 1514  [2]
  Notes	Date of dispensation.
  Family ID	F21038	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas Gerard,   b. Between 1502 and 1512, of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England d. Aft 1550 (Age ~ 49 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1522  [3]
  Divorce	27 Nov 1550  [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Katherine Gerard   d. Bef 1575
  Family ID	F21015	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Richardson's Royal Ancestry (citation details below) (3:83; 3:557) makes Jane Legh a daughter of Piers Legh and his first wife, Jane Gerard. But that would make Jane Leigh and Thomas Gerard--who are noted as having been second cousins through common Savage ancestry--into first cousins, both grandchildren of Peter Gerard and Margaret Stanley. John Blythe Dobson (citation details below) says that "there is no doubt" that Jane Legh who married Thomas Gerard was a daughter, not of Piers Legh's first wife Jane Gerard, but rather his second wife Margaret de Tyldesley, and this seems more plausible.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5955] The House of Lyme from Its Foundation to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Evelyn Caroline Legh Newton (writing as "The Lady Newton"). New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. [S413] Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S5955] The House of Lyme from Its Foundation to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Evelyn Caroline Legh Newton (writing as "The Lady Newton"). New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917., date only.