Agnes Hesketh “Fitton”

Personal and Family Information

Agnes was born about 1379, the daughter of Sir William Hesketh and Marcella Thwenge. The place is not known.

She died in 1443. The place is not known.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Source: Agnes [Hesketh] Fitton [abt. 1379 - 1443] https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hesketh-5

Born about 1379 [uncertain] in Rufford, Lancashire, England

Died 3 Jan 1443 at about age 64 in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England

Agnes "Lady of Gawsworth" Fitton formerly Hesketh

Daughter of William Hesketh and Marcella [Thweng] Hesketh

[sibling[s] unknown]

Wife of Laurence [Fitton] Fyton — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Mother of Alice [Fitton] Davenport , Joan [Fitton] Grosvenor and Thomas [Fitton] Fyton

Biography

Agnes was born in 1379 at Rufford, Lancashire, England.

Agnes Hesketh, a daughter of the house of Rufford in Lancashire, married Sir Lawrence Fitton.[1]

Agnes, domina de Goseworth, died on 3 January, 1442,[2] or 1443 by our modern calendar, at Gawsworth, Cheshire, England.

Sources

James Croston, Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire. A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive [London: John Heywood, 1882], 114. e-Book Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/nooksandcorners00crosgoog/page/n141/mode/1up].

R Stewart-Brown, MA, "Fitton Obits," Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year 1922. Volume LXXIV. New Series—Volume XXXVIII [Liverpool: The Society, 1923], 155. e-Book Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/transactionsofhi74hist/page/205/mode/1up : accessed 23 June, 2022]. "These OBITES taken out of the Calender of an old Masse Booke att GOSEWORTH." Stewart-Brown says some entries in the list were made in the time of Edward Fitton of Gawsworth, who died in 1511. The last entries were made by Edward Fitton in 1573, after his mother's death and before his father's.