'Hardware1'
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Families covered: Hardware of Brombrorough, Hardware of Chester, Hardware of Peele
| William Elcocke alias Hardware | |||||||||||||||
| m. Alice Ratcliffe (son of John Ratcliffe, son of Sir John of Ordshall) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John Hardware of Astmore in Halton, Cheshire (a 1543) | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | Henry Hardware, Mayor of Chester (d 05.03.1584) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1560) Amey or Anne Gee (b 1536, dau/coheir of Henry Gee of Chester (by Elizabeth, dau of Richard Snead of Chester), sister of Edmond of Chester) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Henry Hardware of Brombrorough & Peele, Mayor of Chester (b 1561, d 1603) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Aldcroft (d 1613, dau/heir of Robert Aldcroft of Molesworth) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Henry Hardware of Brombrorough & Peele (bpt 23.01.1587, d 1613) | ||||||||||||||
| m1/2. (07.12.1607) Margaret Wilbraham (b 05.01.1586, d 11.06.1611, dau of Ralph Wilbraham of Dorfold) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Henry Hardware (d 1638-9) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Ravenscroft (dau of Robert Ravenscroft of Bretton) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Thomas Hardware (d 1639) | ||||||||||||||
| This was probably the Henry who (also) married ... | |||||||||||||||
| m2/1. Mary Mainwaring (dau of Henry Mainwaring of Carincham) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | John Hardware, later of Brombrorough & Peele (a 1639) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Hanley (dau/coheir of Thomas Hanley of Boughton) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | John Hardware of Brombrorough & Peele (d 17.02.1661, Captain) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Mary Gardiner (d 01.02.1652, dau of John Gardiner of Shrewsbury) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | John Hardware (d young) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Mary Angell (dau of John Angell of Crowhurst, m2. John Huckenhull of Huckenhull) | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Henry Hardware (d c1662) | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Richard Hardware of Brombrorough Court (b 1625, a 1668) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Hodgkinson of Preston, Amounderness | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Samuel Hardware (d infant) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | John Hardware of Brombrorough (b 1664) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Frances Hunt (dau of Rowland Hunt of Boreatten by Frances, dau of Lord William Paget of Beaudesert) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | John Hardware of London (b 1689, d 1721) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Joanna Bradley (dau of Benjamin Bradley of London) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Henry Hardware (b 01.1718, d 1802) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1739) Mary Millington (d 01.1789, dau of Richard Millington of Manchester) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | John Hardware of Jamaica (b 1741, d 1793) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Dorothy Millington (d 1801, m2. John Dod (son of Robert of Rowton), cousin) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Maryon Hardware | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1787) Robert Grier of Jamaica | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | Mary Hardware (d 1799) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1768) Thomas Richmond (son of Sylvester (rector of Walton)) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1))+ | issue - Sylvester, Henry, Maria, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| (c)+ | other issue - Richard (d infant), Henry (dsp 1776), Henry (d infant) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii)+ | other issue - Benjamin (d unm 1752), Elizabeth (d infant) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | Frances Hardware (b 1684) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (Samuel) Bagshaw (son of Samuel of Ford) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Jane Hardware (b 1703) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Pierce of Gloucestershire | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | _ Pierce (a 1790, rector of West Kirkby) | ||||||||||||||
| (D)+ | other issue - Samuel (b 1686, d 1701), Brian (b 1688, d 1692), others (d young - Rowland, Sarah, Martha, Hannay, Lettice, Katherine, Katherine), others (dp - Mary, Anne, Elizabeth, Lettice) | ||||||||||||||
| (3) | Katherine Hardware (b 1664) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Matthew Henry (son/heir of Philip of Broad Oak) | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Hannah Hardware | ||||||||||||||
| m. Randle Greene of Poulton | |||||||||||||||
| d.+ | other issue (dsp) - Henry, Jonathan, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| iii.+ | other issue - George (bpt 29.03.1584, dsp), Theodore (bpt 09.03.1593, bur 28.10.1594), Margaret (d unm), Anne (bpt 09.11.1583, dsp 1612), Elizabeth (bpt 13.07.1586, dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Anne Hardware (b 1562, dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Chantrell of Bache | |||||||||||||||
| C. | Jane Hardware (b 1568) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Harbottle of Newbold (a 1588, Sheriff of Chester) | |||||||||||||||
| D. | Elizabeth Hardware (b 1572, bur 18.01.1596) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. John Cowper (dsp, alderman of Chester) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. John Bruyn of Stapleford | |||||||||||||||
| E. | Eleanor Hardware (b 1575) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Gerard Massy (rector of Wigan) | |||||||||||||||
| F. | Margaret Hardware (b 1576, d 1626) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edward Dutton (a 1604, Mayor of Chester) | |||||||||||||||
| G.+ | other issue (d infant) - John, William, Richard, James, Anne, Dorothy, Alice | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): Ormerod (Cheshire, vol 2, Horton : 'Hardware, of Peele and Brombrorough') with some support from Visitation (Cheshire, 1613, 'Hardware of the Peele in Mouldsworth and of Chester')
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