Sir Allen de Thornton Knight

  General Notes:

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol II, p. 17, given by Ormerod as a possible son of Sir Ranulph and his wife Amice. ⁷¹³

~The Coucher Book of Chartulary of Whalley Abbey, Vol. II, p. 491, notes that Sir William Molyneux married Margaret, daughter of Alan de Thornton. ⁸²⁴

~Memoir of the Molineux, p. 3, also names Sir Alan de Thornton as the father of Margaret, wife of William de Molyneux, as does History, Genealogical and Bographical, of the Molyneux Family on p. 26⁷¹⁷