William Mobberley

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
William Mobberley, son of Raufe, was lord of the moiety of Mobberley, and patron of the Mobberley church. He bought the moiety of Nether Pever from Richard Bonstable in 1281. William died about the time Edward II became king of England.

William had a son also named William. His second son was John, to whom his father gave all his lands in Nether Pever and Tatton in 31 Edward I (1303). This John dyed without issue, and these lands reverted to William his older brother. Another son was Richard Mobberley, who was made parson of Mobberley by his father in 1306, but he was killed by another Richard, son of yet another Richard Mobberley in 1320. William also had a daughter named Alice who married William de Tabley, ord of Over Tabley and Knotsford. Alice was a widow in 27 Edward I (1300).

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol I, p. 415