. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED WINWICK a son Peter, and two daughters, Joan and Agnes. The son died before 1330, and his sisters became heirs of the ; Joan married William Gerard, son of William Gerard, lord of a moiety of the manor of Kingsley, near Frodsham ;" and Agnes married David Egerton of Egerton, near Malpas, but probably died without issue, as nothing is known of any claim to the Burn- hull manors by her ; The heiresses and their husbands were children at the time of their marriage, William G
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED WINWICK a son Peter, and two daughters, Joan and Agnes. The son died before 1330, and his sisters became heirs of the ; Joan married William Gerard, son of William Gerard, lord of a moiety of the manor of Kingsley, near Frodsham ;" and Agnes married David Egerton of Egerton, near Malpas, but probably died without issue, as nothing is known of any claim to the Burn- hull manors by her ; The heiresses and their husbands were children at the time of their marriage, William Gerard being but thirty years of age in 1352, when his father died.'" Two years later he made a settlement of the manor of Ashton, the remainders being to his son Peter, and then to the heirs of Joan daughter of Alan de ; Little is known of the son, except that he became a ; Sir Peter Gerard died in 1380, and was succeeded by his son Sir Thomas Gerard, who like others of the family is traditionally said to have been engaged in the wars of the ; At his death in 1416 he was found to have held the two-thirds of the manor of Ashton of Henry de Langton, baron of Newton, in socage by the service of 20/. a year, besides many other manors and lands in Lanca- ; His son and heir John, aged thirty at his fether's death, succeeded. He died 6 November 1431, leaving a son and heir Peter, then twenty- four years of ; This son, afterwards Sir Peter Gerard, had a comparatively short life, dying on 26 March 1447, when the manors devolved on a minor, his son Thomas being but sixteen years of age.** Sir Thomas Gerard, who came of age in 1452," was married in childhood to Douce daughter of Sir Thomas Ashton ; afterwards he married Cecily, daughter of Sir Robert Foulshurst, by whom he had a son and heir Peter, and other children.'' He died on 27 March 1490 ;" his widow Cecily afterwards made a vow of ; The son Peter,
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