Cholmondeley ,  Mainwarming and Brereton Families:

 Source:"Wipepedia"                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Source:  "The History of the Worthies of England" By: Thomas Fuller, D.D.

"The Cholmondeleys of Cholmondeley trace their ancestry to  the Barony of Malpas: during the 11th or 12th century. 

• Ralph/Ranulph Mainwarming of Baggley :  descendent of Charles Mainwarming of Croxton married Agnes Chomondley; (Agnes:daughter of Hugh Chomondeley)                                                                                              

          Their daughter Margaret  Mainwarming married William Bromley, Controller to the "Earl of Derby:   William Bromley           served King Henry V in France "Battle of Corby" and was Knighted in 1418.  He was named "Constable of Bossiville le Ross" and given forty pounds in land per year for him and his heirs for his service to the King.  William was born in County Shropshire and was "General Solicitor to Queen Elizabeth.                                                                                                    

• Sir Hugh Cholmondeley (the younger) of Cholmondeley, Knt., born 1552, MP for Cheshire in 1585, knighted on the Spanish Invasion, 1588, Sheriff of Cheshire in 1589, died at Cholmondeley in 1601 and buried at Malpas.

  "Visitation of Cheshire 1580: Shows the wife of Hugh Cholmondeley as  Mary STANLEY

  Other Records show Hugh: married:   Mary Holford: sole daughter and heiress of Christopher Holford, Esq., (b1562/3), died at Vale Royal  1625 and buried at Malpas.

   They had five sons and three daughters:
  Mary Cholmondeley: wife of George Calveley of Kent  Lettice Chomondeley: wife of Sir Richard Grosvenor of Eaton Frances Chomondeley: wife of Peter Venables, Baron of Kinderton.

   

   According to Burke's Peerage there were five sons.

  •  Robert Cholmondeley born 1584 in Middlesex : created a baronet on 29 June 1611, Sheriff of Cheshire 1620-21:  created Viscount Cholmondeley of Kells in Ireland in 1628, Baron Cholmondeley of Wich Malbank in England  1645, Earl of Leinster in Ireland 1646. He died at Cholmondeley  1659 and was buried at Malpas.  Married:  Catherine Stranhope: dau. of John, Lord Stanhope of Harrington. She died at Cholmondeley  1657 and was buried at Malpas.

    Children of Robert:

    •  Thomas Cholmondeley of Holford, Esq. was the illegitimate son of Robert Cholmondeley by a Mrs. Goldston, and his father gave him the Holford lands that he had obtained from his mother.
   
  • . Hatton Cholmondeley, 2nd son, born Islington on 17 August 1587. Died without issue.

   

  • . Hugh Cholmondeley of Knight's Grange, Esq., 3rd son, born at Holford and baptised at Nether Peover on  1591, died at Bodville Castle,  1655 and buried at Malpas. Married:   Mary Bodville: Dau. of Sir John Bodville, Kent, of "Bodville Castle", Caerarvonshire.

                                                    

  • . Robert Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley, Esq., inherited the family estates on the death of his uncle, and was created Viscount Cholmondeley of Kells in 1661. He died in 1681. Married  Elizabeth Cradock: dau. and co-heiress of George Cradock of "Caverswall Castle" in Staffordshire, Esq. She was buried at Malpas  1691/2. This couple had four sons and one daughter.

Sir Hugh Cholmondeley (the elder) was born before 1513 and died 1596/97. He was the second son of Richard Cholmondeley (born c 1474, died 1518) and his wife : Elizabeth Brereton: dau. of Sir Randall Brereton of Malpas. He succeeded his elder brother, who died without issue in 1539 and was knighted in 1544.

Sir Hugh married first Ann or Amy Dorman in 1540/41. She was the coheiress of Sir George Dorman of Malpas. She was buried at Malpas  1571. All the children of Sir Hugh the elder are from this marriage.

 Sir Hugh married Mary, the daughter of Sir William Griffiths or Gruffydd of Penrhyn. She was the widow of Sir Randall Brereton of Malpas but this union produced no further issue. Mary was buried at Malpas 1588.

There were seven Randall Breretons in succession at Malpas.) Sir Hugh the elder was five times sheriff of Cheshire and died 1596/7 (tomb at Malpas). He was succeeded by his son, Hugh the younger.

Adam Bostock (b 1270) married Joan Brereton, dau. of William Brereton, descendents of Sir Randall Brereton of Malpas."

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Researched and Posted  by:  Wanda Bostic Dunlap  Sept 2009

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