Isabella Strangeways

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 233B:36, wife of Sir Peter Gerard ¹⁶⁰

~Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Gerard Pedigree, Vol. II, pg. 131, living as a widow in 26 Henry VI ⁷¹³

~Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 368, Isabel was granted a dower in Feb 1448
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  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁴⁵
~Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. II, "Strangeways's Pedigree," p. 161, Henry Strangways is given as the father of James Strangways, married to Joan, Daughter of Nicholas Orells, who in turn has a daughter named Isabella who is married to Sir Peter Gerard. Thomas Strangways, who is most often given as Isabella's father, is the brother of James. Thomas is also given as married to Katherine, widow of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk.

Isabella married Sir Peter Gerard, son of John Gerard Lord of Kingsley and Bryn and Alice Boteler ^160,713,1425.^,1443 (Sir Peter Gerard was born in 1407 in Kingsley, & Bryn, Lancastershire, England ⁸²¹ and died on 26 Mar 1447 in Lancashire, England ⁸²¹.)