Sir William More Molyneux Knight

  General Notes:

~The Baronetage of England, Kimble & Johnson, 1771, p. 60, Sir William de Molineus, of Sefton, Knight, eldest son of Adam, and by his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Alan de Thorton, Knight, he had three sons, Sir Richard, William and Simon.

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  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁶
Sir William who married Margret, daughter of Alan de Thornton, of Leicester and had Richard his successor, who by Emma Donne his wife had Sir William, his heir, who married Isabella Scarsbrick of Scarbrick.
~History, Genealogical and Biographical, of the Molyneux Families, pg. 9
William More Molyneux was a member of the Knights of the Garter, 1349.
~History, Genealogical and Biographical, of the Molyneux Families, pg. 26

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁷
William, son and heir of Adam and Letitia, married Margaret, daughter of Sir Alan de Thornton, and held, by knight's service 15 libralas Terrae, equivalent to 3,600 acres. He received knighthood at the hands of Phillip de Uluceby, Sheriff of Lancashire, in 1256.
~Memoir of the Molineux Family, pg. 3

William married Margaret de Thornton, daughter of Sir Allen de Thornton Knight and Unknown ⁷¹⁶.^,727