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    Wright, Randall

    Male Abt 1545 - 1596  (~ 51 years)


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    • Name Wright, Randall 
      Born Abt 1545  Of Wich Malbank, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Buried 9 Sep 1596  Nanwich, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I03951  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 21 May 2015 

      Father Wright 
      Family ID F01736  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Edwards, Margaret,   b. Abt 1550,   bur. 3 Dec 1586, Nanwich, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 36 years) 
      Married Abt 1570 
      Children 
       1. Wright, Randle,   b. Abt 1570, Of Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
       2. Wright, Thomas,   b. Abt 1570, Of London, England Find all individuals with events at this location
       3. Wright, Margery,   b. Abt 1570, Of Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 21 Jan 1582, Nanwich, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 12 years)
      +4. Wright, Edmund,   c. 24 Nov 1573, Nanwich, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 2 Aug 1643, St Olave Old Jewry, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years)
      Family ID F01278  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • An Edmund Wright and his wife Ellen baptise a son Edward in 1545. Father of Randall??

        ...He was the son of Randall Wright, mercer, of Twerlingate Nantwich and Margaret (Edwards), also of Nantwich. Ormerod (fn. 39) states that Sir Edmund was descended from a collateral line of Wright of Offerton and Mottram, formerly of Nantwich, to whom arms were disallowed in the heraldic visitation of 1663-4, and, in a footnote, writes:- "This Sir Edmund used [and no doubt improperly used] the arms of Bulkeley . . . and the name of Thomas Wright alias Bickley, with whom the pedigree (fn. 40) begins, is sometimes written Bulkeley in the pedigrees, but corruptly so", since, as Ormerod explains, his name appears as Thomas de Bickley alias Wright, executor of the will of David Bickley.

        May have brother Laurence and Henry as baptising at the same time.

        From T.A.Cowards " Cheshire"

        " Wich-Malbank is the old name for Nantwich, for a quater of the town was granted in 1133 by William de Malbank or Malbanc to the abbot of Combermere................The last baron of Wich-Malbanc, Lord Audley led the tax ridden Cornishmen as far as Blackheath to protast by force in 1497............In consequence his family lost the estate and later the Cholmondeleys became Barons of Nantwich"

        Could it be Richard. A Richard Wright mentioned in the will of Richard Barnes, 1597.??

        INVENTORY OF RICHARD WRIGHT
        A Richard Wright was sheriff of Chester in 1572-3.
        Chester, Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies, WS 1613 (Richard Wright of Chester); 14 March 1613/14; English; paper; bifolium; 391mm x 155mm (text area variable); text pp 1-3 only; unnumbered.

        Creator(s):
        Wilbraham family of Delamere
        Collection of Deeds relating to the Nantwich Area
        Box 1
        FILE - FEOFFMENT - ref. DWN/1/57 - date: 1580, 30. Nov
        [from Scope and Content] By Randle Wright of Wich Malbank, yeoman, to Thomas Wright, his brother, and Randle Edwards --- premises as above No. DWN/1/51 (except annual rent from cottages in Little Wood Street now shown as 4/4); to hold to the use of the sd. Randle Wright for life, remainder to Randle Wright the younger, his son, and his heirs, remainder to Thomas Wright, another son of the sd. Randle, and his heirs, remainder to Edmund Wright, another son of the sd. Randle, and his heirs, remainder to Randle Wright, son of the sd. Randle, and his right heirs.

        Son or grandson??
        Chester Wills on Line Database
        First Name: RANDLE
        Surname: WRIGHT
        Place: ASHLEY
        Occupation: YEOMAN
        Date: 1631
        Will:
        Admon:
        Inventory:
        Codicil:
        Notes: WS
        Document Reference:

        Possibility:
        Lancashire & Cheshire: - Miscellanies and an Index of Infra Wills
        Marton Marriages. Addenda Et Corrigenda.
        Index of Infra Wills,
        1590-1665.
        County: Cheshire
        Country: England
        Wright, Margery, of Nantwich, widow Will 1619

        Lancashire & Cheshire: - Miscellanies and an Index of Infra Wills
        Marton Marriages. Addenda Et Corrigenda.
        Index of Infra Wills,
        1590-1665.
        County: Cheshire
        Country: England
        Wright, Thomas, of Nantwich Inv. 1604

        Lancashire & Cheshire: - Miscellanies and an Index of Infra Wills
        Marton Marriages. Addenda Et Corrigenda.
        Index of Infra Wills,
        1590-1665.
        County: Cheshire
        Country: England
        Wright, Roger, of Nantwich Will 1616

        Lancashire & Cheshire: - Calendar of parsons commemorated in Monumental inscriptions, Abstracts of Wills, and Administrations
        Part 2. Wills and Administrations.
        Holford v. Holford Re Holdford Estates (S.C.P., Henry 8th, Bundle 21, No. 40; and Bundles 24, No. 337, and 26, No. 82)
        County: Cheshire
        Country: England
        Wright, Ann, of Nantwich, 1635 , Book: A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich or Wich-Malbank, by James Hall, 1883., Pag

        Lancashire & Cheshire: - Calendar of parsons commemorated in Monumental inscriptions, Abstracts of Wills, and Administrations
        Part 2. Wills and Administrations.
        Holford v. Holford Re Holdford Estates (S.C.P., Henry 8th, Bundle 21, No. 40; and Bundles 24, No. 337, and 26, No. 82)
        County: Cheshire
        Country: England
        Wright, Henry, of Nantwich, 1607 , Book: A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich or Wich-Malbank, by James Hall, 1883., P

        Lancashire & Cheshire: - Calendar of parsons commemorated in Monumental inscriptions, Abstracts of Wills, and Administrations
        Part 2. Wills and Administrations.
        Holford v. Holford Re Holdford Estates (S.C.P., Henry 8th, Bundle 21, No. 40; and Bundles 24, No. 337, and 26, No. 82)
        County: Cheshire
        Country: England
        Wright, Lawrence, of Nantwich, 1603 , Book: A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich or Wich-Malbank, by James Hall, 1883.

        Lancashire & Cheshire: - Calendar of parsons commemorated in Monumental inscriptions, Abstracts of Wills, and Administrations
        Part 2. Wills and Administrations.
        Holford v. Holford Re Holdford Estates (S.C.P., Henry 8th, Bundle 21, No. 40; and Bundles 24, No. 337, and 26, No. 82)
        County: Cheshire
        Country: England
        Wright, Roger, of Nantwich, 1604 , Book: A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich or Wich-Malbank, by James Hall, 1883., P

        Wikepedia
        Churche's Mansion is a timber-framed, black-and-white Elizabethan mansion house at the eastern end of Hospital Street in Nantwich, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ656521). The Grade I listed building dates from 1577, and is one of the very few to have survived the Great Fire of Nantwich in 1583.
        Built for Richard Churche, a wealthy Nantwich merchant, and his wife, it remained in their family until the 20th century.
        Churche's Mansion was built for Richard Churche and his wife Margerye by Thomas Clease in 1577.[3] A panel under a window to the right of the main entrance bears the inscription:

        Rychard Churche, and Margerye Churche, his wyfe mai iiii
        Thomas Clease made this worke, anno dni, M,ccccc,lxxvii,
        in the xviiii yere of the reane of our noble queene elesabeth[3]

        The only other remaining work signed by craftsman Thomas Clease (also Cleese) is the Queen's Aid House on Nantwich High Street, known for its inscription thanking Elizabeth I for her aid in the town's rebuilding after the Great Fire.[2]

        The land in "Hospitull Strete" on which the mansion was built had been granted to John and Nicolas Churchehouse of Grayste (Gresty) in 1474/5 by John Marchomley and his son John, Richard and William Cholmondeley, and John Bromley.[4] By the late 16th century, the Churche family (known variously as Church, Chirche, Kyrke and Churchehouse) was a prominent one in Nantwich. Richard Churche was a wealthy local merchant who, at his death in 1592, owned "one wiche-house of six leads in Wich Malbank", as well as considerable land holdings both locally and in Shropshire and Stafford. His wife, Margerye or Margaret Churche, daughter of Roger Wright, came from another significant Nantwich family; she survived her husband, living until 1599.[4]
        Salamander carving, traditional protection against fire Standing on the edge of the old town, the recently completed Churche's Mansion survived the fire of 1583 which destroyed almost all of Nantwich east of the River Weaver.[5] The only other buildings known to have survived were Sweetbriar Hall, also on Hospital Street, and the parish church.[6] Richard Churche willed "the house ... wherein I now dwell on the Ospell Street" to his second son, Rondull, Randol or Randle Church(e).[4] The house is mentioned among the principal houses of the town in a 1622/3 account by William Webb, who describes the mansion as "a fair timber-house of Mr. Randol Church, a gentleman of singular integrity."[7] Randle Church survived until 1648, outliving his son and grandson, and Churche's Mansion then passed to the Shropshire branch of the family, descended from Richard Churche's eldest son, William.[4] The Churche family inhabited the house until at least 1691, when a rate book records Saboth Church as the resident and gives the rates as 2 shillings 8˝ pence.[4]

        1623 Visation
        Wright, of Nantwich.
        (Harl. MS. 1535, fo. 291b.)
        Thomas Wright ats Bulkeley de = Margareta filia Johnis Cottes
        wiche malbancke in com. Cestr. | de Woodcotts in Com. Salope.
        _______________________ |
        |
        Johannes Wright = Elizabetha filia . . . . Leake de Comf Stafford.
        __________|
        |
        Rogerus Wright de = Margeria filia & heires Ricardi Leeche
        Wichemalbanke. | de wiche malbanke.
        ______________________ | ________________________________________
        | | | |
        1. Roger Wright duxit 2. Willilmus 3. Edwardus Wright duxit |
        Elianora filiam & h. Wright Cleri- Elenoram filam Humfry |
        Robti Minshull de Hul- cus. Mynshull & alicia filia & |
        graue. Vna heredu Lawr Rope. |
        ______________________________________________________________ |
        | | | |
        7. Rad?us Wright 8. Johannes Wright 9. Reginaldus Wright duxit |
        duxit Elena filia duxit . . . . filiam. Anna filia Rogeri Weten- |
        Radi Bagenhall. Dauid Bradley de hall de Copenhall. |
        Hynton. |
        | | | | |
        7 alii filii Henricus Wright Margeria vxor Ricus Jana nupta |
        & vx.filia duxit Margeriam [Randle?] Crew de John Mayn- |
        obierant filia Johannis wico malbanke. waringe de |
        sine ple. Mynshnll Calveley. |
        ________________________________________________________________ |
        | |
        Ricardus Wrighte = Margareta filia Alex- Thomas = E1ena filia Robti
        de Wiche malbank | andi Elcocke de Stop- Wright de | Sadley [Sadler]
        in Comf Chester | ford [Stockport; Wich mal- | ex filia Laurence
        [died 1585]. | remarr. Richard Wil- banke. | Frodsham de
        | braham; died 1607]. | wich malbank
        ______________ | | [Elton].
        | __________________________________________ |
        | |
        | Lawrence Wright de wiche ma1- = Margareta filia Roberti Pickeringe de
        | bancke [died 1603]. | wiche malbanke [died 1618].
        | _________________________ |
        | |
        | Laurence Wrighte de wiche = Anna filia prima & vna heredu Radulp.
        | malbanck [born c. 1575, | Wynnington de Offerton [marr. 1596].
        | died 1649]. ^
        |_____________________________________________________
        | | | | | | |
        | [4.] Franciscus Jacobus Wright H[i]eronimus Elizabetha nupta
        | Wright duxit 5 filius. 2d filius theo- Thos.Minchull de
        | Suzanna filia ? logić proffes- wico malbanke.
        | . . . . Carpenter Rogerus Wright sor in acad. =
        | ciuis Londonis. 6 filius. Oxoniensis. |
        | ? Ricardus
        | Cicilia Wright. Mynshull.
        |__________________________________________
        | |
        [1.] Ricardus Wright = Katharina [3.] Henricus = Anna filia Johis
        filius Ricardi primo | filia Radulphi Wright de | Woodnett de
        genitus [died 1588]. | Brayne de wico mal- | Shauynton
        | Aston [died banke [died | [marr: 1591,
        | 1633]. 1607]. | died 1633].
        ______________ | _______ _ |
        | | |
        Margareta [died Elizabetha [died 1653, [Margaret, bapt. 1596,
        1649, wife of wife of Hugh Daven- marr. 1619 to Capt.
        Ralph Wood- port]. Tho: Masterson]
        noth].
        =================

        "Alice Bressey. She married Henry(?) or Roger Wright. (Additional notes for Henry(?) or Roger Wright(2)) The Wrights of Nantwich, Cheshire, were a large family of town merchants who married into families of the Cheshire landed gentry and were of armorial rank. Alice is mentioned in the wills of her uncle, James Bressey , in 1561, and of her brother, Thomas Bressey, in 1591, at which latter date she was a widow. She was very probably the Alice Wright, widow, "of the porche" (the name of one of the town mansions of Nantwich), who was buried 29 May 1609"